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Library Place Orléans
Library Name Médiathèque
Shelfmark MS 322 (273)
Folio Range 2nd C.U. (pp. 9-266)
Date AD 1002–1004
Origin(s)
  • Loire Valley
  • Fleury
Provenance

Fleury

Genre
Contents
  • Martyrologium Usuardi (9-266)
  • Veni creator Spiritus with neumes (added s. XI ex.) (266)
  • Computistica (regulae mensium, epacts, table) (added s. XI ex.) (267-269).
Old Breton Materials No
Irish / Hiberno-Latin materials No
Connection with Brittany
Notes

This copy of the Martyrologium Usuardi, written at Fleury between AD 1002 and 1004 under the abbacy of either Abbo or Gauzlin (cf. Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 458–9), contains several additions (by both the prima and the secunda manus) mentioning Breton saints. We may mention in particular: eodem die sancti Gildas confessoris (2 March, a secunda manu); in Britannia transitus sancti Pauli episcopi et confessoris miraculorum uita clarissimi (12 March; cf. Vidier 1965: 101, n. 186); in Britannia sancti Chorentini episcopi (1 May); Floriaco monasterio consecratio altarium in honore sanctorum episcoporum Martini atque Pauli et beati patris Benedicti ac discipuli eius Mauri (18 August, a secunda manu); Floriaco monasterio translatio sancti Pauli (10 October, a secunda manu); Redonas sancti Melani episcopi et confessoris (11 October, a secunda manu). The entry for 23 November (a prima manu) says what follows about Columbanus: in Italia monasterio Bobio sancti Columbani abbatis qui multorum cenobiorum fundator multis clarus uirtutibus quieuit in pace.

Number(s) in Bischoff's Katalog n/a
Essential bibliography

CCfr; CMD VII, 243; Initiale; LF BF827; Pellegrin 1988: 235–9; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 454–61; Riché 2004: 21; Vidier 1965: 88 (n. 94), 100 (nn. 176 and 177), 101 (n. 186), 116 (n. 17).

URLs for digital facsimile
Last Updated 2021-06-08 13:34:22
Author Jacopo Bisagni
DHBM Identifier #105
Permalink https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/105
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