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Orléans » Médiathèque » MS 302 (255)

Library Place Orléans
Library Name Médiathèque
Shelfmark MS 302 (255)
Folio Range 1st C.U. (pp. 1-82)
Date IX in.
Origin(s)
  • Brittany (probably)
Provenance

Fleury

Genre
Contents
  • Sedulius, Carmen Paschale with glosses (1-32, 35-81)
  • Sedulius, Hymn I, lines 1-73, inc. Cantemus socii cantemus honorem (82, 33-34).
Old Breton Materials Yes
Irish / Hiberno-Latin materials No
Connection with Brittany
Notes

Bischoff's geographical ascription of this codicological unit of Orléans 302 says 'Wahrscheinlich Bretagne' (Kat. §3740); indeed, this entry of Kat. describes the script of these pages as 'unausgeglichene insul. Halbunz.' (cf. also DGVB 4, and PMSB 305: 'écriture de type insulaire'). Moreover, Bischoff provided a list of the most prominent abbreviations occurring therein, many of which are of insular character. It should also be noted that the invocation written on p. 9, line 19 (mentioned in Lemoine 2008: 196–7; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 407), In nomine Dei sumi [sic] saluatoris cosmi, displays a use of the term cosmus comparable to the invocation that opens the Breton computistical collection in Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B, fol. 249(bis)r: In honomate filii redemptoris cosmi a m(alo). These palaeographical and textual features, combined with the presence of nine Old Breton glosses inserted by the same hand that also wrote the main text (cf. Loth 1912), do point to Brittany as the most likely place of origin (this geographical ascription is indeed adopted in Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 406, although cf. LF BF799 for Fleury as an alternative possibility). It is also worth mentioning the presence of Breton neumes (added probably during the tenth or eleventh century) in the second codicological unit of Orléans 302, p. 137 (Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 407).

Number(s) in Bischoff's Katalog 3740
Essential bibliography

Bauer 2008: 173–4; Bischoff 1990: 90 (n. 44); Bischoff 1994: 30; CCfr; Deuffic 2008: 128; DGVB 4; Initiale; Lambert 2018: 15; Lemoine 1985: 287; Lemoine 1994a: 79, 81, 108; Lemoine 2001: 266–7; Lemoine 2008: 187, 190–1, 196–7; LF BF799; Loth 1912; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 406–8; PMSB 305–6 (§62); Riché 2004: 20; Smith 1992: 167 (n. 81); Springer 1995: 74.

URLs for digital facsimile
Last Updated 2021-06-08 13:33:35
Author Jacopo Bisagni
DHBM Identifier #104
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