A New Manuscript Witness for the Tetrasticon autenticum de singulis mensibus

Abstract

This paper discusses an hitherto unnoticed copy of the Tetrasticon authenticum de singulis mensibus (Anthologia Larina 395 [Riese], 391 [Shackleton-Bailey]) and the unusual manuscript context in which it is found, that is, a late tenth-century Sacramentary from the Abbey of Echternach. The presence of such a “pagan” poem in an utterly Christian liturgical compendium reflects the complexity of late Carolingian attitudes towards pagan scholarship and culture.