ABSTRACT
Marcovich has shown that the many Latin MSS. containing “voces animantium” (“noises of anim als,” as he called them following Wackernagel; I will use here the term “catalogues of animal sounds” following Finch) can be divided into four groups: Phocas catalogues (from or related to Liber Glossarum s.v. vox), Polemius catalogues (from or related to a passage in Polemius Silvius’ Laterculus), Aldhelm catalogues (from or related to Aldhelm De Pedum Regulis 21), or poetic catalogues (from or related to De Philomela , Anth. Lat. 762 Riese).2 The Aldhelm and Polemius catalogues have for the most part been pub lished, the Phocas and many of the poems still awaiting publication .3 Marcovich was less interested in a large group of catalogues which mix material from various sources, since these shed little light on the clas sical or late classical sources. The earliest of these seems to be Isidore, De Differentiis 1.75.607 (83.70 Migne). One later such passage has been published from Vat. Lat. 6016, ff. 5 9 -6 0 r, by Finch, a second by Benediktson from CLM 7797, f. 78v (I leave aside here poems which by their nature are inclined to mix such material).4 Here I would like to publish one such catalogue which will shed light both on scribal activity in the fourteenth century and on the potential value of the study of such material.