Abbo of Fleury, Carmen acrostichum ad Ottonem imperatorem (997)

Incipit

• Otto ualens

Editions

• J. Mabillon, Acta SS. ordinis S. Benedicti (Paris 1668–1701), 8. 49–50, repr. PL 139. 519–20
• K. Strecker, MGH PLAC 5 (1937–9) 470.
• For an edition that reconstructs the acrostic, see S. J. Gwara, ‘Three acrostic poems by Abbo of Fleury’, JML 2 (1992) 203–235 (at 227–31).

Repertories

• Initia carminum Latinorum (ICL) 11514

Notes

quoted in Aimoin de Fleury’s Vita Abbonis abbatis

Sources

• BAV MS Regin. lat. 1864 (s. xi), fol. 73r–v.
• MSS of Aimoin’s Vita with the poem
• Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 1118 (s. xi, Fleury), fols. 91v–123r.
• BNF MS lat. 12606 (s. xii, Fleury), fols 141r–144v, at 144r.