Abstract
The author describes a recently discovered copy of a letter by the tenth-century scholar Gerbert of Aurillac, who became Pope Sylvester II at the end of his life. Located among a collection of theological and exegetical texts in ms. Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque d’Agglomération, 312, the letter describes an instrument devised by Gerbert to observe the heavens. For most of its life, the manuscript was part of the library in the Benedictine monastic house of Saint-Bertin. The article compares the text of the Saint-Omer manuscript with those preserved in other previously known copies of the letter, both to determine the filiation of the text and to better understand its circulation and use.
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