Mss/9605: An Eleventh-Century “Science Album”

Faith Wallis

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Introduction

1Manuscript Mss/9605 of the Biblioteca nacional de España is an example of a type of manuscript book produced between the 9th and the early 13th centuries for monastic and clerical libraries. We can call these manuscripts “science albums”. They appeared in the wake of the diffusion of Bede’s De temporum ratione (725) on the Continent by Insular missionaries and visitors, and as a consequence of the Carolingian promotion of computus as a critical element in the reform of clerical education. De temporum ratione provided an encyclopedic framework, as well as technical arguments, for the management of the Roman solar calendar and for the Alexandrian-Dionysian formulae for calculating Easter. This encyclopedic framework drew cosmology, mathematics, astronomy and medicine into the orbit of computus. The Carolingian project, on the other hand, ensured the proliferation of manuscripts devoted to presenting computus within this expanded framework. The Carolingian period, as

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