Vindobona is Vienna
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From: Dr. Karen Jolly <[log in to unmask]>
To: Medieval Religion <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 20 July 1999 21:01
Subject: liturgical query
> Following up on my earlier Tobit query, I find myself mired in 18th
>century collections of medieval liturgica. Let me see if I can untangle
>my ball of thread here.
> A nice Tobit/Raphael reference popped up in a PL search (thanks to
>Stephen Allen), similar in nature to the one I am trying to track in the
>Durham manuscript (a series of prayers for chasing birds out of the
>field that calls upon Archangel Panchiel and invokes the Tobit story
>also).
> PL 138: 1091A has, in a miscellany of unattributed benedictions, an
>"oratio super segetes" (with Archangel Panchiel no less). Migne
>references two things.
> The first is a note saying that Panchiel is one of the angelic
>beings condemned in that little heretical episode involving Adalbert c.
>745, which produced a papal doctrine establishing only 3 named
>archangels. Unfortunately, in my initial search through the records on
>that episode, I have yet to find Panchiel in the list of condemned names
>(not that I have finished searching).
> The second thing Migne notes is his source for this oratio, an
>eighteenth century set of volumes by Martin Gerbert, _Monumenta veteris
>litrugiae alemannicae_ in two volumes (Saint-Blaise 1777-79; repr.
>Hildesheim, 1967). Cyrille Vogel lists it as one of those outdated but
>still useful compendiums--most of the texts have been superceded by new
>editions, but not all. Unfortunately, Vogel doesn't tell me much more
>about the texts I am looking at.
> Nonetheless, the oratio super segetes is there in Gerbert right
>where Migne said it was (volume 2, p. 92), but I am no closer to
>identifying the manuscript source.
> Both Migne and Gerbert identify it (with various abbreviations) as
>"Ex Cod[ice] Vind[ob]. Theol. 685 saec. X." In other places in the
>volume, similar titles appear, eg. "Ex Cod. Th. Bibl. Vind. n. 685
>saec. X," "Ex cod. Vindob. saec. IX" and "ex cod. Msc. bibl. Vind. saec
>X" and the like, some of which appear to be the same ms and some are
>clearly other mss in the same library (?). I want the 10th century ms
>Theol. 685, but I can't quite figure out where Vindob. is, at least in
>an 18th century Latinist's mind. I don't know if this oratio is also in
>Mabillon, Muratori, or Martene (although I have Mabillon on order
>through InterLibrary Loan). It is possible that Vindob. refers to
>something inside Gerbert's monastery of Saint Blaise, if I am reading
>the 18th cen. Latin preface correctly.
> Before I pester InterLibrary Loan with more arcane requests, does
>anyone know what this ms reference is? or know what Vindob. is, or have
>a Latin place name list handy?
> Has anyone ever dealt with the Martin Gerbert volumes and can
>explain what it is I have here?
> Last, if Vindob. is some obvious thing that I should have known,
>feel free to tell me!
> Many thanks,
>Karen Jolly
>--
>Dr. Karen Jolly
>Associate Professor, History
>University of Hawai`i at Manoa
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