Glossed Manuscript of Boethius, Prudentius, and Martianus Capella now Catalogued

Naples IV.G.68, produced at St Gall in the later ninth century, contains several works of Boethius (including the famous Consolation of Philosophy), Prudentius' Psychomachia, and the fourth book of Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis.  It also contains many smaller works, including excerpts from Bede, Virgil, Lupus of Ferrières and Walafrid Strabo, as well as many hymns and poems with neumes added.

Zurich MS of Adomnán of Iona's De Locis Sanctis, etc., now Catalogued

Ms. Rh. 73 in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich—famous for the diagrams of churches found in its copy of Adomnán's De locis sanctis—has now been described. Besides the Adomnán, the MS also contains the Itinerary of the pilgrim of Piacenza (ps.-Antoninus martyr), a fragmentary copy of Bede's Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings, and an excerpt from a poem of Venantius Fortunatus. Reginbert of Reichenau records that the manuscript was given to his monastery by Walafrid Strabo.