• Western Francia

Collection of the bookseller Nathaniel Noel, c. 1700

• Encyclopaedia
• Patristica

Isidore, Etymologiae.

• Probably not written in Brittany
• Some contents possibly derive from a Breton exemplar / archetype

Deuffic lists this MS in his PMSB (301, §44, indicated under the wrong shelfmark '2696'), probably because it was included in Fleuriot's unpublished handlist (cf. PMSB 290). I am now aware of any specific Breton connections regarding this MS, which was generically ascribed by Bischoff (Kat. §2447) to Western Francia. It is nevertheless worth pointing out that several readings a prima manu, corrected at a later stage, may well be due to the erroneous interpretation of insular abbreviations: some very good examples can be seen, for instance, at fols 53r-v (with eius for enim, sunt for secundum, f and fa for secunda, etc.). As a consequence, we cannot rule out that the scribe was copying from an insular or Breton exemplar.

British Library Digitised Manuscripts; Innovating Knowledge; PMSB 301 (§44, with wrong shelfmark 2696).

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