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.