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Library Place Bern
Library Name Burgerbibliothek
Shelfmark MS 85
Folio Range 1st C.U. (fols 1-146)
Date IX 2/2
Origin(s)
  • Brittany
  • Landévennec (?)
Provenance

Fleury?

Genre
Contents
  • Canons (1-6)
  • Matthew's Gospel (7-46)
  • Capitula and prologue to Mark's Gospel (46v-49r)
  • Mark's Gospel (48v-70r)
  • Capitula and prologue to Luke's Gospel (70r-74r)
  • Luke's Gospel (73v-116v)
  • Prologue and capitula to John's Gospel (116v-118r)
  • John's Gospel (118v-146v)
  • Fragment from the Sacramentarium Gregorianum (147r-v, 2nd C.U.).
Old Breton Materials No
Irish / Hiberno-Latin materials No
Connection with Brittany
Notes

This is one of the MSS belonging to the so-called 'Landévennec group' of Gospel-books. Script, decoration and iconography all point univocally to a Breton origin, although it does not seem possible to confirm with absolute certainty that it was written specifically in the scriptorium of Landévennec (cf. Simpson (McKee) 1999: 185). Portraits of the evangelists occur at fols 7v (Matthew, with human head), 48v (Mark, with horse head), 73v (Luke, with ox head), 118v (John, with eagle head). It should also be noted that a marginal entry displaying some features of 'Hisperic' Latinity occurs at fol. 8r (cf. Lemoine 1995: 15–16). An instance of the 'Aethicus Hister' alphabet can moreover be found at fol. 117r.

Number(s) in Bischoff's Katalog 503
Essential bibliography

Alexander 1985: 271; Besseyre 2008: 12; Deuffic 2008: 129 (n. 230); E-Codices; Fleuriot 1983: 104; Guillotel 1985: 12–7 (wrongly indicated with the shelfmark '89' at p. 12); Hagen 1875: 103–4; Homburger 1962: 132–4; ILLB In7; Kerlouégan 1982b: 318; Kitzinger 2013b: 29, 36; L&S §963; Lemoine 1994b: 366; Lemoine 1995: 15–16; Lemoine 2004: 156; Lemoine 2005: 16–18; Lemoine 2008: 187, 198; LF BF040; Morey, Rand and Kraeling, 1931: 38; OHLP 256; PMSB 294 (§10); Riché 2004: 20; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 285, 289; Wikipedia.

URLs for digital facsimile
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