A Descriptive Handlist of Breton Manuscripts, c. AD 780–1100 Dr Jacopo Bisagni Moore Insititute, NUI Galway https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/export?export_type=xml xml 7 33 20 24 42 30 25 32 37 6 8 15 31 40 2 44 39 1 13 11 16 19 27 28 26 9 41 43 4 14 36 18 35 29 17 10 23 21 5 3 38 22 34 1 BM Alençon 2 BM Angers 3 BM Avranches 4 Walters Art Museum Baltimore 5 Staatsbibliothek Bamberg 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 8 BM Bordeaux 9 BM Boulogne-sur-Mer 10 Bibliothèque Royale Brussels 11 BM Cambrai 12 Corpus Christi Cambridge 13 Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 14 Gonville and Caius Cambridge 15 Pembroke College Cambridge 16 University Library Cambridge 17 BM Chartres 18 Dombibliothek Cologne 19 University of Missouri Library Columbia 20 Det Kongelige Bibliothek Copenhagen 21 BM Douai 22 BM Evreux 23 Cathedral Library Exeter 24 Biblioteca Laurenziana Florence 25 Forschungsbibliothek Gotha 26 Kestner-Museum Hannover 27 Archiv der Freiherrn von Fürstenberg Herdringen 28 Biblioteca Capitolare Ivrea 29 Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe 30 BM Laon 32 BM Le Mans 31 Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 33 British Library London 34 Lambeth Palace Library London 35 Society of Antiquaries London 36 Bibliothèque Nationale Luxembourg 37 Biblioteca Nacional Madrid 38 Domstiftsbibliothek Merseburg 39 Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine Montpellier 40 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich 41 Pierpont Morgan Library New York 42 Public Library New York 43 Médiathèque Orléans 44 Schøyen Collection Oslo 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 46 St John's Oxford 47 Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek Paderborn 48 Bibliothèque Mazarine Paris 49 BnF Paris 50 Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris 51 BM Quimper 52 Archives Départementales du Finistère Quimper 53 Bibliothèque de l'Archevêché Rennes 54 BM Rennes 55 BM Rheims 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 59 Stiftsbibliothek Saint Paul im Lavanttal (Saint Paul in Carinthia) 57 Stiftsbibliothek Saint-Gall 58 BM Saint-Omer 60 Cathedral Library Salisbury 61 Nationalmuseum Stockholm 62 Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum The Hague 63 Basilique Notre-Dame de la Nativité (Trésor de la Cathédrale) Tongeren / Tongres 64 BM Tours 65 Stadtbibliothek Trier 66 BM Troyes 67 BM Valenciennes 68 Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Venice 72 Museum of the Bible Washington (DC) 69 Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar 70 Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv (formerly Staatsarchiv) Wolfenbüttel 71 Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg 30 2 21 29 8 7 31 27 28 24 16 33 18 17 6 34 26 13 19 10 3 9 4 20 32 14 1 22 15 12 11 25 No Yes No Yes 751 1300 Certainly Possibly Probably 1 MS 84 Whole MS (131 fols) IX 3/3 867 900 Saint-Evroult - Canon tables (1r-5v) - Four Gospels with Jerome's prefaces (6r-123v) - _Capitula evangeliorum anni circuli_ (124r-130v). 0 0 This MS contains portraits of the evangelists, except Matthew (fols 44v, 66v, 101v). Deuffic (_PMSB_ 291) points out that the decoration of the canon tables 'rappelle celui des premiers manuscrits de Tours.' _EBGB_ (15, n.1) makes it clear that the attribution of this MS to Brittany is essentially based on the analysis of the iconography (which is particularly close to that of [Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.1](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/12)). The attribution to Brittany is accepted in Bischoff's _Kat._, §29, where the MS is dated to the last third of the ninth century. At fol. 7r the count of forty-two generations from Abraham to Christ has been crossed out. Insular _enim_ at fol. 7r. The word _finit_ can be read, written in Greek letters (with _phi_ for _f_ and _theta_ for _t_) at fol. 130v (for some Breton parallels, cf. _ILLB_ In4, p. 10, n. 5). This accumulation of palaeographical, iconographical and textual evidence does make a Breton origin probable. 29 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D08150569); _CGM_ 2: 514–5; _EBGB_ 14–5 (n.1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; Gameson 2012d: 63 (n. 221); _ILLB_ In4; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/161); Kerlouégan 1982b: 318; Lemoine 2005: 15–16, 21, 22; _MPF_ §92; _OHLP_ 256; _PMSB_ 291 (§1); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 286, 289. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/1 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/1 1 1 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:51:57.000000Z 1 1 BM Alençon 1 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F24691%2Fmanifest 2 MS 18 (14) Whole MS (196 fols) IX 2/3 (c. AD 840-850?) 834 866 Angers - Prefaces and other exegetical materials on the Psalter (1r-17v) including the illustrated _Instrumenta Hieronymi_ (12v-14r) - Gallican Psalter (18r-154v) - Confessions, Litanies, Prayers (154v-196v). 0 1 Due to a misleading note in _EBGB_ (p. 13, n.1; cf. also Fleuriot 1983: 104), Deuffic (_PMSB_ 291, §2) included this MS in his list of Breton MSS, althouth he acknowledged that 'l'origine bretonne est discutée' (cf. also the mention of this MS 'among Caroline manuscripts so far identified as Breton' in Simpson (McKee) 1999: 276); indeed, there is no clear indication pointing to a Breton origin. The dating given here is based on _Kat._, §48. Bischoff attributed the MS to Western Francia, whereas Leroquais (1940–1: vol. 1, 19–24) thought that it was written in a Northern or North-Eastern Frankish scriptorium. Finally, Porcher (_MPF_ §90) suggested the abbey of Saint-Remi at Sens. The Old Irish gloss _pennoil_ (= _penn fhóil_, 'slender feather' or 'slender wing') is preserved in the illuminated section on the _Instrumenta Hieronymi_, at fol. 12v (cf. Bisagni 2015b: 346–8). This MS shares the _Instrumenta Hieronymi_ and two prayers with Boulogne-sur-Mer, BM, MS 20 (known as 'Odbert's Psalter'), written at St-Bertin in AD 999. At fols 180v–183v we find a _Confessio Sancti Patricii episcopi_, which is in fact a prayer (incipit _Deus Deus meus rex omnipotens ego humiliter te adoro_) also occurring with the title _De conscientiae reatu ante altare_ in Basel, UB, A.VII.3, fols 2v-3r (s. IX), where this text was added by the same (Irish?) hand that penned the famous codex Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 363 (cf. _L&S_ §§809–10; cf. also _CLH_ §314, where the old shelfmark 14 is used for this MS, which is here attributed, for unclear reasons, to the Tours scriptorium). 48 Bisagni 2015b: 346–50; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34100044); _CGM_ 31: 195–6; _CLH_ §314; _CMD_ VII, 550–1; _EBGB_ 13 (n.1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/5369/774); Leroquais 1940–1: vol. 1, 19–24 (§12); ; _MPF_ §90; _PMSB_ 291 (§2); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 276. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/2 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/2 2 3 2 Western Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-18T09:38:09.000000Z 2 3 Northern Francia Possibly coordinates for Sens 2 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-18T13:57:19.000000Z 2 4 Central Francia Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-18T09:38:09.000000Z 2 5 Saint-Remi of Sens Possibly 48°12'01.4"N 3°16'57.6"E coordinates for Sens 48.200389 3.282667 4 4 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 2 2 BM Angers 2 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F1063%2Fmanifest 3 MS 21 (17) Whole MS (130 fols) XI ex. 1076 1100 Saint-Serge of Angers - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (1r-v) - Preface to the four Gospels (2r) - Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus (2v-3r) - Jerome, Second letter to Pope Damasus (3v) - Preface and capitula for Matthew's Gospel (3v-4v) - _Interpretatio Hebraicorum nominum ex evangelio sancti Mathei evangelistae_ and _Testimonia in Matheo evangelista_ (5r-6v) - Eusebian canon tables (7r-14v) - Gospel of Matthew (beg. 15r) - Gospel of Mark (acephalous) (beg. 44r) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and capitula (beg. 59r) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (beg. 94r) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (beg. 119r) - Liturgical additions (beg. 127v). 0 0 Fleuriot listed this MS among Breton Gospel-books (_DGVB_ 7; Fleuriot 1983: 105). However, just like in the case of [Angers, BM, MS 22](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/4), there is no clear evidence pointing to a Breton origin; in fact, it is virtually certain that this MS was written at Angers, probably at the abbey of Saint-Serge (cf. _Kat._ I, 17; Vezin 1974: 169, 282–3). No number; vol. I, p. 17 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34100066); _CGM_ 31: 197; Fleuriot 1983: 105; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/207/777); Vezin 1974: 169, 185, 282–3. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/3 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/3 1 4 6 Angers Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:25:28.000000Z 3 7 Saint-Serge of Angers Certainly 47°28'34.3"N 0°32'48.0"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Serge of Angers 47.476194 -0.546667 6 2 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 3 2 BM Angers 2 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=9030 Several images are available at 4 MS 22 (18) Whole MS (130 fols) XI ex. 1076 1100 Saint-Serge of Angers Four Gospels with Eusebian canon tables (fols 7-10), prefaces and _capitulare evangeliorum_ (beg. fol. 122) (cf. the contents of Angers, BM, MS 21). 0 0 Fleuriot listed this MS among Breton Gospel-books (Fleuriot 1983: 105). However, just like in the case of [Angers, BM, MS 21](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/3), there is no clear evidence pointing to a Breton origin; in fact, it is virtually certain that this MS was written at Angers, probably at the abbey of Saint-Serge (cf. _Kat._ I, 17; Vezin 1974: 169, 285). No number; vol. I, p. 17 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34100078); _CGM_ 31: 197; Fleuriot 1983: 105; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/208/778); Vezin 1974: 93, 169, 185, 285–6. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/4 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/4 1 8 Angers Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-18T13:59:01.000000Z 4 9 Saint-Serge of Angers Certainly 47°28'34.3"N 0°32'48.0"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Serge of Angers 47.476194 -0.546667 8 2 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 4 2 BM Angers 2 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=9031 Several images are available at 5 MS 24 (20) Whole MS (125 fols) IX / X 801 1000 Unknown - Eusebian canon tables (1r-5r) - Preface and capitula to Matthew's Gospel (5v-7r) - Crucifixion and Deposition scenes (7v-8r) - Empty folio (8v) - Gospel of Matthew (9r-40r) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (40r-59v) - Portrait of Saint Mark (41v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and capitula (59v-96r) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (96v-125v). 0 0 In relation to the impressive Crucifixion scene painted at fols 7v–8r, _EBGB_ says (p. 10): 'This manuscript, which has been dated to the tenth century, though it may be a little earlier, has been assigned to the School of the Loire. It contains an inscription [at fol. 125v] which indicates that the archetype came from a bookshop of one Gaudiosus installed near St Peter ad Vincula in Rome' (for the striking Crucifixion and Deposition scenes, see also Lemoine 2003 and Kitzinger 2013; for Gaudiosus and his bookshop-workshop in fifth- or sixth-century Rome, see De Bruyne 1913, where the corrupt collocation _de statione gaudio libri_ is reconstructed as _de statione Gaudiosi librarii_). Indeed, in _MPF_ §212 this MS is ascribed generically to the 'région de la Loire'. However, Angers 24 is attributed to Brittany by Bischoff in _Kat._ §50. Although in the absence of a detailed palaeographical analysis it is impossible to be certain, Bischoff's attribution may well be correct, especially in view of the occurrence of the incipit formula _In diuine sanctae Trinitatis honomate nunc orditur euangelium cata Matheum_ at fol. 7r (for Breton parallels, cf. e.g. the notes to Luxembourg, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 89 in the present hand-list, as well as Lemoine 1989: 147). In sum, the question is still _sub iudice_, but the possibility of a Breton origin should be seriously taken into consideration (indeed, this MS is included by David Ganz among Breton Gospel-books in _OHLP_ 256). A portrait of Saint Mark can be seen at fol 41v. A careful description of the contents, with an ample bibliography, can be found in Deuffic's _ILLB_ In5. 50 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34100081); De Bruyne 1913; _CGM_ 31: 198; _EBGB_ 10 (n.3); Fleuriot 1983: 105; _ILLB_ In5; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/5328/779); Kitzinger 2013; Kitzinger 2013b: 29, 32, 37; Lemoine 1989: 147; Lemoine 1995: 11; Lemoine 2003; Lemoine 2005: 17, 19, 22; McGurk 1987: 176; _MPF_ §212; _OHLP_ 256; _PMSB_ 291 (§3); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 286, 289. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/5 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/5 1 10 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 5 11 Loire valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 5 2 BM Angers 3 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F1060%2Fmanifest 6 MS 55 (48) Whole MS (137 fols) IX 3/3 867 900 Unknown - _Quaestiones uel glossae in euangelio nomine_ (1r–12v) - _Quaestiones euangelii_ (12v–13v) - Various materials on the Gospels (13v-17v) - _Interpretatio euangeliorum_ (17v-137v). 0 1 Bischoff (_Kat._, §52) placed the writing of this MS in ‘Westliches Frankreich’ in the last third of the ninth century. The reason for Deuffic’s (_PMSB_ 292) inclusion of this MS in his handlist is unclear as there appears to be no evidence of Breton influence or origin. The MS begins with two short tracts that serve as introductions or primers to the exegesis of the Gospels and that may display Hiberno-Latin features (McNally 1973: 125–51). In the first of these Bischoff identified two elements of particular significance. One is a reference naming as ‘Comianus’ the author of a commentary on Mark’s Gospel (_nouellum auctorem in Marcum nomine Comiano_; cf. Bischoff 1976: 81–2, 88–9, and 111–12 (§14), where the MS was dated to 'saec. XI 1-med.'). Bischoff’s argument that this refers to the famous (possibly Hiberno-Latin) commentary on Mark (Cahill 1997) subsequently sparked a lively scholarly debate (e.g. Gorman 1997: 180–1; Ó Cróinín 2000: 210–12). The other element is that this work contains one of the earliest identified fragments of a commentary on the Gospels by Fortunatianus of Aquileia (Bischoff 1976: 112; Étaix and Lemarié 1974: 366–370; Dorfbauer 2013). The main work in this manuscript is an incomplete version of a commentary on the Gospels attributed to Epiphanius Latinus (Erikson 1939, though this MS was not identified at that time; Dorfbauer 2015). 52 Bischoff 1976: 81–2; 111–12 (§14); [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34100130); _CGM_ 31: 206–7; _CLH_ §63–4; Dorfbauer 2015; Erikson 1939; MacNally 1973: 125–51; _PMSB_ 292 (§4). 1 Sarah Corrigan 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/6 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/6 2 12 Western Francia Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:52:48.000000Z 6 2 BM Angers 4 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F20370%2Fmanifest 7 MS 91 (83) Whole MS (285 fols) X 901 1000 Saint-Aubin of Angers Sacramentary of Angers, with numerous blessings, prayers (often with neumes), ritual formulas, etc., including: - _Prognostica_ (9v-10v) - Practical _computistica_ (10v-13v) - Calendar (14r-23r) - _Carmen ad fluxum sanguinis_ (23v). 0 0 Rather than simply ascribing this MS to a Breton scriptorium, Bischoff recognised Breton 'symptoms' in it (_Kat._, vol. I, p. 18). Jean Vezin (1974: 159–60) expressed the following cautious assessment as to the origin of this MS: 'Un manuscrit, Angers 91 (83), pose de redoutables problèmes de localisation. Il s'agit d'un sacramentaire dans lequel a été inséré le graduel. Le sanctoral contient des saints de l'Anjou: Aubin, Maurille et Florent, mais aussi des régions limitrophes et en particulier du diocèse de Nantes avec s. Similien, s. Martin de Vertou, s. Hermeland. Dans l'état actuel des recherches, il n'est pas possible d'identifier l'établissement ecclésiastique pour lequel a été copié ce volume qui remonte apparemment au Xe siècle et qui possède une notation bretonne d'origine. Quoiqu'il en soit, le manuscrit a appartenu très tôt à l'abbaye de Saint-Aubin.' To the saints of the Anjou mentioned by Vezin, we should add the presence of numerous saints associated with Brittany (especially Redon) and the region of Nantes in the calendar that occupies fols 14r–23r: e.g., January 29 _natalis sancti Gildasii abbatis_ (fol. 14v; cf. July 1 on fol. 18v), March 3 _sancti Uuinualoey abbatis_, March 12 _sancti Paulinani episcopi_ (15v), April 28 _natalis ... sancti Uuinualoey abbatis_, May 1 _natalis ... sancti Corentini episcopi_ (17r), May 18 _Paterni confessoris_, May 24 _Namnetis passio sanctorum Donatiani et Rogatiani_ (17v), June 17 _Namnetis ciuitate natalis sancti Similini episcopi_ (18r), July 1 _natalis ... sancti Gildasii abbatis_ (18v; cf. January 29 on fol. 14v), July 11 _Machuti_ (18v), July 28 _in Britania natalis sancti Samsonis episcopi_ (19r), October 1 _depositio ... episcopi Meleri_, October 11 _Redonis ciuitate natalis sancti Melanii episcopi_ (21r), November 6 _Redonis ciuitate depositio sancti Melanii episcopi_ (21v), November 15 _in Britania natalis sancti Machuti episcopi_ (22r) (cf. Deuffic, _ILLB_ In38, esp. pp. 130–2). Indeed, Molinier wrote in his catalogue (_CGM_ 31: 216) that this MS, 'exécuté dans le bassin de la Loire, vient d'une abbaye où l'on honorait beaucoup de saints bretons (Fleury-sur-Loire?).' Mostert (_LF_: BF003) states that the MS could not have been written at Fleury, but it is undeniable that it must have been produced in a centre with strong links with Brittany, perhaps somewhere in Anjou, or even in a foundation of (Eastern?) Brittany, or in the diocese of Nantes (cf. _ILLB_ In38, p. 132: 'l'importance donnée aux saints nantais [...] nous oriente davantage vers une église de ce diocèse, en contact avec l'Anjou et le Saumurois, peut-être possessionée par l'abbaye Saint-Aubin d'Angers'). No number; vol. I, p. 18 Borst 2001: I, p. liii; Borst 2004: 143–4; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34100190); _CGM_ 31: 215–16; _CMD_ VII, 551; Deuffic 2008: 116; Deuffic 2011: 70–1; _ILLB_ In38; [Initiale](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/5396/831); _L&S_ §967; _LF_ BF003; _PMSB_ 292 (§5); Riché 2004: 21; Vezin 1974: 159–60. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/7 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/7 4 5 30 6 13 Eastern Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 7 14 Redon Possibly 47.651068 -2.084214 13 2 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-06-07T10:56:56.000000Z 7 15 Anjou Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 7 16 Region of Nantes Possibly 4 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 7 2 BM Angers 6 22 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F1058%2Fmanifest 8 MS 476 (460) Whole MS (68 fols) X med. (AD 926–943, or indeed AD 926) 926 943 Saint-Aubin of Angers - Miscellaneous _computistica_ (1r-59r) - Breton annals up to AD 919 (now partly illegible) (46v) - Bede, _De natura rerum_ (59v-66r) - Bede, _De temporibus_ (incomplete, but cf. the entry for [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.1283 A](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/203) in the present hand-list) (66r-68v). 1 1 This is undoubtedly one of the most important compilations of scientific texts to have been certainly written in Brittany. The Breton origin can be established on the basis of the presence of two Old Breton glosses and Breton annals, as well as by the manuscript's very peculiar and heavily 'insular-influenced' Caroline minuscule, described as 'écriture minuscule tirant sur l'anglo-saxonne' in _CGM_ 349 (note also that Bischoff (1990: 90, n. 44) drew attention to the use of 'Insular _g_, the _wynn_-rune and thorn (_ð_)' in the annals occurring on fol. 46v, about which see below; cf. also Dumville 2005: 52, where this script is described as 'a hybrid Insular-Caroline'). This MS shares much material with [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), including passages from the extremely rare _Computus Hibernicus Parisinus_ of AD 754 and numerous Irish or Irish-influenced computistical materials. In his _Kat._ (§67), Bischoff proposed a dating to the second half of the ninth century, undoubtedly on the basis of the palaeographical evidence. However, this clashes with his own dating to the early tenth century (around AD 919), briefly discussed in Bischoff 1984: 103. On the other hand, the late date indicated by Gautier Dalché (2002: 38–9, 'Xe-XIe siècle?') is due to his erroneous belief that this MS and Angers 477 'portent probablement la marque de l'enseignement d'Abbon, maître de l'école de l'abbaye ligérienne de Fleury à la fin du Xe siècle.' In fact, there is no doubt that this MS dates from the first half of the tenth century: at fol. 1v, a discussion of world chronology indicates _annus mundi_ (AM) 6126 = AD 926 as the _praesentem annum in quo hoc librum fuit scriptum_ (cf. Lambert 1984: 204); the range of years covered by the Breton annals at fol. 46v ends (probably) with AD 919 (cf. Bischoff 1984: 103); moreover, there are computistical _argumenta_ containing dating clauses for AD 944 (fol. 33v, _Ipsi sunt anni ab incarnatione Domini nostri Ihesu Christi et sunt anni Domini DCCCCXLIIII_; significantly, this date is actually the result of a scribal update, as some of its digits are clearly written on an erasure) and AM 6126 = AD 926 (fol. 34r); finally, the computistical tables at fols 44r–45v cover the period AD 912–1063. The two dating clauses for AD 926 indicate that this MS may well have been written in that year; in any case, even if those dating clauses had been copied from the exemplar, the _argumentum_ at fol. 33v points to AD 943 as an unquestionable _terminus ante quem_. In conclusion, there is no doubt that Angers 476 was written between AD 926 and 943, and quite possibly in the former year. The last folio of this MS, previously lost, can now be found in the miscellaneous codex [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, MS Reg.lat.1283 A](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/203), fol. 65: the genealogies added on fol. 65v prove that this MS had reached the abbey of Saint-Aubin of Angers by the end of the eleventh century. According to Bischoff (1984: 105) one of the annalistic entries at fol. 46v (now partly illegible) may refer to the monastery of Redon, so that the MS might have been written there (cf. also Borst 2006: I, 208); admittedly, though, this is far from certain (indeed, Bischoff's suggestion has been described as 'a very uncertain proposition' in Dumville 1993: 12). According to Fleuriot, Angers 476 originated from the same scriptorium where [Angers, BM, MS 477](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/9) was written (_DGVB_ 11), but this suggestion too remains unproven. 67 Bauer 2008: 9; Bisagni 2019: 262; Bischoff 1984: 103–5; Bischoff 1990: 90 (n. 44); Borst 2006: I, 207–8; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34101404); _CGM_ 31: 349; Deuffic 2008: 116; _DGVB_ 4; Dumville 1993: 11–2; Dumville 2005: 52 (n. 14); Gautier Dalché 2002: 38–9; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/229/1121); [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0009); Lambert 1984: 204–6; Lemoine 1985: 287; _PMSB_ 292–3 (§6); Smith 1992: 171 (n. 103). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2022 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/8 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8 6 2 7 20 8 17 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:01:25.000000Z 8 18 Redon Possibly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 17 2 2021-05-07T14:21:49.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 8 2 BM Angers 7 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F4663%2Fmanifest 9 MS 477 (461) Whole MS (99 fols; 3 codicological units) IX ex. / X in. (with C.U. 2 written in AD 897) 876 925 Saint-Aubin of Angers C.U. 1: - Greek-Latin glossaries (1r-8v) - Added prayer to the Virgin Mary (incomplete) (8v) C.U. 2: - Church consecration diagram, with added marginal excerpts from Martial's epigrams and from the Book of Jeremiah (9r) - Computistical diagrams (9v) - Bede, _De natura rerum_ (10r-18v) - Bede, _De temporibus_ (18v-22r) - Victorius of Aquitaine, _Liber calculi_ (22r-27v) - Computistical tables and calendar (28r-43v) - Computistical argumenta (44r) - Bede, _De temporum ratione_ (without _Chronica maiora_, except for chapter 61, ll. 1–71 of Jones's 1975 edition) (44v-85v) - Cryptogram (cf. Lambert 1983: 140–1) (47v) - Added formula for ordeal by hot water and curse (85v) - Colophon of C.U. 2: _sit sospes qui scripsit hunc librum_ (85v) - Added texts, including excerpts from Deuteronomy and passages from Gregory the Great, _Moralia in Iob_, possibly inserted by the same hand responsible for the marginalia on fols 9r-v (87r-v) C.U. 3: - Prayers, homilies, poetry, Biblical and exegetical excerpts, etc. (88r-96r) - Computistical and cosmological tables, diagrams and texts, as well as penitential excerpts, canon laws and poetry, in various hands (96v-99v) Abundant glossing and marginal entries throughout the MS, in both Latin and Old Breton. 1 1 The codicological structure and contents of this important MS are very complex, and a full study is still a desideratum (although a marked progress has recently been achieved in Barbet-Massin 2017, at least from the codicological point of view). Angers 477, which contains the largest collection of Old Breton glosses ever discovered (roughly 450; for their discovery see Fleuriot 1959), is constituted by three codicological units, but these were bound together at an early date: this is especially true as far as units 2 and 3 are concerned, given that the hand of the glosses of 'type B' can be seen on both of these units (cf. Barbet-Massin 2017: 18–21), so that unit 3 can be considered as an 'expansion' of unit 2 (cf. _Kat._ §69, 'Erweiterung in bretonischer Min.'). As for unit 1, which contains some Greek-Latin glossaries (cf. Omont 1898), its date may be slightly earlier than that of the other two units (cf. _Kat._ §68), but the fact that the script of the prayer to Mary added on fol. 8v appears to resemble the hand responsible for the texts added on fol. 87v (at the end of unit 2, cf. Barbet-Massin 2017: 21) might suggest that unit 1 too was attached to the other two sections at an early stage, perhaps already in the tenth century. The dating of the MS has attracted some controversy, but it is in fact quite clear that the second codicological unit was written in AD 897, as shown by a marginal _argumentum_ occurring on fol. 21r (for a published dating of this MS to c. AD 900, cf. Barbet-Massin 2017: 32–3, _pace_ Gautier Dalché, who erroneously associated the scientific diagrams in Angers 477 with the teachings of Abbo of Fleury; cf. Gautier Dalché 2002: 38–41); this also means that unit 1 probably dates from the late ninth century (in agreement with Bischoff's dating, as indicated above), while unit 3 may have been added sometime in the early tenth century. Determining the origin of this codex is more difficult, and several different places of origins have been proposed by scholars. Fleuriot initially opted for Landévennec (_DGVB_ 9–11; note that Dubreucq has recently called into question Fleuriot's suggestion that Angers 477 originated from the same scriptorium where [Paris, BnF, Lat. 13029](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/155) was written; cf. Dubreucq 2017: 143–4). Deuffic (_PMSB_ 293) stated (following an earlier suggestion by Vezin) that this MS is 'dû sans doute à un léonard établi à Angers vers la fin du IXe siècle' (see also _ILLB_ In43, p. 142, for the prominent presence of saints associated with the region of Léon in the calendar at fols 30v–36r; moreover, 'Léon' is indicated by Bischoff as the area of origin of units 2 and 3 in _Kat._ §69). A completely different localization has been recently proposed by Barbet-Massin, who attributes the writing of the bulk of Angers 477 to a Breton scribe working in the areas of Amiens/Corbie or Laon/Soissons (Barbet-Massin 2017: 28–34): this view is mostly based on readings shared with several codices originating from Northern Frankish scriptoria, as well as on the presence of numerous saints associated with the region of Amiens/Corbie in the above-mentioned calendar at fols 30v–36r (the main comparandum being the 'Amiens Sacramentary', i.e. Paris, BnF, Lat. 9432). Some of the textual links identified by Barbet-Massin involve Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, MS Aug. perg. 167, a famous copy of Bede's scientific works copied by Irish scribes probably in the area of Laon/Soissons (cf. Barbet-Massin 2017: 23–4, 30, 32–3). This is highly significant, as connections between Angers 477 and Karlsruhe 167 have also been detected as far as the glosses are concerned (cf. Lambert 1983: 120–9; Lambert 2018: 35–6; Bauer 2017b; for parallels with further MSS containing glosses to Bede's works, see Bauer 2019b). In particular, Angers 477 preserves at least two corrupted Old Irish glosses (Lambert 1983: 129, 132; Lambert 1989: 89; Lambert 1994: 101; Bauer 2017: 38), as well as a number of Breton glosses clearly related to, and probably based on, an Irish or Irish-influenced model close to Karlsruhe 167 (in this context, it is also important to note that Fleuriot introduced a distinction between 'type-A' and 'type-B' glosses in _DGVB_ 9: the former are contemporary with the main text of unit 2, while the latter are somewhat later, but the precise distribution of hands within these two groups remains to be worked out in detail). In any case, there is no doubt as to the Breton origin of the scribes who participated in the writing of Angers 477: the presence of nearly 500 Old Breton glosses, the frequent and consistent use of insular abbreviations throughout the main text and the glosses, and the strong Breton character of the calendar, leave no doubt in this respect. As for the Irish affiliations of Angers 477, they are far from being confined to its vernacular glosses. Indeed, some of the Latin glosses demonstrate the glossators' acquaintance with the three main Irish computistical textbooks discovered so far, namely the _Computus Einsidlensis_, the Munich Computus and _De ratione conputandi_ (cf. Ó Cróinín 1982: 426, n. 60; Ó Cróinín 1983: 79; Warntjes 2010: clxxxiii–clxxxvii; Bisagni 2020a: 41–6). To this already long series of connections with Ireland we should add the church consecration ritual on fol. 9r (discussed in detail in Barbet-Massin 2011 and Barbet-Massin 2016), the mention of the death of _Uuiniaus_ = Saint Finnian of Clonard (AD 549) at fol. 36v (Ó Cróinín 1983: 77–9), and the computistical table occurring at the bottom of fol. 36r, where Old Breton words are used to translate (sometimes erroneously) equivalent Old Irish calendrical terms (Lambert and Bisagni 2018). Prominent links with Wales and England are present too (for the Welsh links, cf. _DGVB_ 16, 26, 29–31; Lambert 1994: 101–2, 104; Lambert 2018: 36–8, noting that vernacular type-B glosses present 'a language coloured with Old Welsh features'; for the Anglo-Saxon links, cf. Le Duc 1979 and Le Duc 1989). All this makes of Angers 477 an extraordinary cross-linguistic and cross-cultural 'bridge' between the insular world, Brittany and Francia (for example, for a preliminary attempt to analyse the phenomena of language interaction in these glosses, see Bauer 2017: 42–4). Given that significant doubts still surround the issue of the manuscript's place of origin, and given that many different hypothetical scenarios may be proposed to account for the complex superposition of layers that can be recognised in both the main text and the glosses, it is clear that a complete and thorough palaeographical, textual and linguistic analysis of the three codicological units that composed Angers 477 is a major desideratum. 68; 69 Barbet-Massin 2011; Barbet-Massin 2013: 398–9, 498; Barbet-Massin 2016; Barbet-Massin 2017; Bauer 2008: 9–65; Bauer 2017: _passim_ (esp. pp. 34, 38, 42–6); Bauer 2017b; Bauer 2019b: _passim_ (esp. p. 32–3, 47); Bisagni 2020a: 36–7 (n. 92), 40–6; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34101406); _CGM_ 31: 349; Deuffic 2008: 116; _DGVB_ 6, 8–11, 16, 18, 26–31; Dumville 2005: 57–9; Fleuriot 1959; Gautier Dalché 2002: 38–41; Guillotel 1985: 16; _ILLB_ In43; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/230/1122); Le Duc 1979; Le Duc 1989; Le Duc 1995: 176; Lambert 1983 and 1984; Lambert 1983b; Lambert 1989: 89–92; Lambert 1990; Lambert 1994: 101–2, 104; Lambert 2005; Lambert 2018: 35–8; Lambert 2019; Lambert and Bisagni 2018; Lemoine 1985: 52–7, 260–4, 290, 357–67; Lemoine 2010: 219; Ó Cróinín 1982: 426 (n. 60); Ó Cróinín 1983: 77–9; Ó Cróinín 1988: 115–16, 118, 163; Omont 1898; _PMSB_ 293 (§7); Schrijver 2011: 9; Simpson (McKee) 1994: 115; Simpson (McKee) 2012: 342; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 103), 172 (n. 105); Stifter 2018: 37, 47; Stirnemann 2011: 75–6; Warntjes 2010: cv–cvi, cxxviii–cxxxii, clxxxiii–clxxxvii, ccix. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 26-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/9 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/9 6 8 9 4 10 30 19 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:05:34.000000Z 9 20 Landévennec Possibly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 19 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 9 21 Léon Possibly 48°41'05.9"N 3°59'08.9"W coordinates for Saint-Pol-de-Léon 48.684972 -3.985806 19 3 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 9 22 Northern Francia Probably 4 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:04:23.000000Z 9 23 Amiens Possibly 49°53'40.2"N 2°18'09.1"E coordinates for Amiens 49.894500 2.302528 22 5 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 9 24 Corbie Possibly 49.908291 2.511073 22 6 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-07T10:58:50.000000Z 9 25 Laon Possibly 49°33'52.0"N 3°37'30.5"E coordinates for Laon 49.564444 3.625139 22 7 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 9 26 Soissons Possibly 49.383762 3.327613 22 8 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-07T10:58:50.000000Z 9 2 BM Angers 3 6 8 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F1097%2Fmanifest 10 MS 817 (733) Whole MS (137 fols) X in. 901 925 Saint-Serge of Angers - Gregory the Great, _Dialogi_, book II (1-46) - Adrevald of Fleury, _Translatio sancti Benedicti_ (46-69v) - Adrevald of Fleury, _Miracula Benedicti_ (69v-135) - Historical excerpt (by Adrevald of Fleury?) concerning Brittany and Nantes, with dating clause for AD 843 (135r-136r) - Annalistic entry about the capture of Nantes on the part of the Northmen in AD 843, with title _Item in aliis annalibus de captivitate Nanneticae civitatis repertum est ita_ (136v). 0 0 There is no indication to suggest that this MS was written in Brittany. In all likelihood, Deuffic (_PMSB_ 29) included it in his list on account of the important historical excerpts at fols 135r–136v, concerning military events in eastern Brittany and Nantes in AD 843. Indeed, even if this MS was not written in Brittany, these texts are of great interest for early medieval Breton history. Vezin (1974: 93) pointed out that the script of this MS closely resembles that of Angers, BM, 175 (167), written at the abbey of Saint-Serge in Angers; it is therefore probable that Angers 817 was likewise written there. n/a [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D34102345); _CGM_ 31: 459–60; _PMSB_ 293 (§8); Vezin 1974: 93; Vidier 1965: 141, 144. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/10 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/10 11 7 19 27 Angers Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:05:08.000000Z 10 28 Saint-Serge of Angers Possibly 47°28'34.3"N 0°32'48.0"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Serge of Angers 47.476194 -0.546667 27 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 10 2 BM Angers 2 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F4654%2Fmanifest 11 MS 229 Fols 193-230 IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Mont-Saint-Michel - Pseudo-Augustinus, _Categoriae decem_ with abundant scholia (194r-229v) - Smaragdus, grammatical excerpt (229v-230r). 0 0 This MS contains the following colophon at fol. 230r: _Martinus presbiter bonus humilis scripsit et subscripsit. Fratres qui legit ora pro illud_. Bischoff (_Kat._ §182) places the writing of this MS 'Nähe zur Bretagne.' The marginal commentary does present some insular abbreviations (as indicated by Bischoff), but there does not seem to be any evidence pointing specifically to an origin _in_ Brittany (cf. _CMD_ VII, 555: 'Aucune indication ne permet d'en situer l'origine ni la date', _pace_ Ganz 2007b: 150, where it is stated that 'the Breton priest Martin copied the de Decim Categoriis in Avranches 229'). 182 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D16010954); _CGM_ 10: 107–9; _CMD_ VII, 555; Ganz 2007b: 150. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/11 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/11 13 14 29 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 11 3 BM Avranches 4 9 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F17931%2Fmanifest 12 MS W.1 (61) Whole MS (167 fols) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Collection of Malevergne de Lafaye, notary in Limoges, who bought the MS in 1838. Gospels (1r-155v), also including: - Prologue and capitula to Mark's Gospel (36r-38v) - Prologue and capitula to Luke's Gospel (72v-77r) - Prologue and capitula to John's Gospel (122v-124r) - Incomplete list of pericopes for the liturgical year, titled _Capitulare Euangeliorum de circulo anni_ (156r-167v). 0 0 The MS contains full-page portraits of Saint Mark (fol. 38v), Saint Luke (fol. 77v), and Saint John (fol. 124v). Both the script and the iconography of this MS point to a Breton origin (accepted in _Kat._ §184). This MS is particularly close to other codices discussed in the present hand-list: (1) Oxford, Bodleian Lib., Laud Lat. 26, (2) Alençon, BM, 84, (3) Tongeren, Trésor de la Cathédrale (s.n.), (4) Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Arch. S. Petri, D.154. Indeed, Alexander (1985: 270–1) pointed out that 'leurs portraits [i.e., of the evangelists] sont [...] en dépendance de modèles carolingiens exécutés presque certainement à Tours.' 184 Alexander 1985: 270–1; _EBGB_ 15–22; Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In6; _OHLP_ 256; _PMSB_ 294 (§9); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 289. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/12 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/12 1 30 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:54:24.000000Z 12 4 Walters Art Museum Baltimore 1 http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W1/ 13 MS Ph. 1 (HJ.IV.16) Whole MS (51 fols) X 901 1000 Bamberg Cathedral - Alcuin, _De dialectica_ (1r-24r) - Hisperic poem inc. _Omnipotens mesia soter adde legentibus auxin_ (24r) - Boethius's translation of Porphyrius, _Introductio in Aristotelis categorias_ (24r-35v) - Apuleius, _Peri Hermeneias_ (36r-46r) - Excerpts from Isidore, _Etymologiae_, II, xxix-xxxi, here titled _De divisione definitionum ex Marii Victorini libro adbreviatis_ (46r-51r) - _De divisione philosophiae eiusdem_ (51r) - Diagram of the divisions of _philosophia_ (51v). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ I, 54) offers a laconic tentative attribution to either England or Brittany. At the end of Alcuin's _De dialectica_ there is a curious 'Hisperic' short poem, inc. _Omnipotens mesia soter adde legentibus auxin_ (edited from this MS by K. Strecker in _MGH_, _Poetae Latini aevi Carolini_, IV, 2 (Berlin, 1923), p. 1067, item XXVII; cf. also the poetic colophon at fol. 35v, presenting some striking alliterations: _Hic pascitur gramine sub monte hoc petra uetusta / Ducite nunc petram pueri per prata iuuencam_). In view of the Breton penchant for 'Hisperic' colophons and subscriptions (cf. e.g. Lemoine 1988 and 1995), the presence of this poem could perhaps support the ascription of this MS to Brittany. It is also notable that many instances of capital _N_ have a rather 'insular' appearance. The interesting tract on the divisions of _philosophia_ at fol. 51r is edited in Bischoff 1958: 13. No number; vol. I, p. 54 _ASM_ 562 (§784.5); Bischoff 1958: 13; Fischer 1899: 393–5; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0014 ). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/13 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/13 15 16 14 23 31 England Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 13 32 Brittany Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 13 5 Staatsbibliothek Bamberg 3 https://zendsbb.digitale-sammlungen.de/db/0000/sbb00000176/images/index.html 14 MS 607 Whole MS (134) XI med. 1025 1075 - Abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (diocese of Coutances, Normandy). - Collection of Charles de Montchal (d. 1651). - Collection of Thomas Phillipps. - Jerome's prefatory letter on the Gospels (1r-5v) - Eusebian canon tables (6r-11v) - Capitula for Matthew's Gospel (12r-13r) - Gospel of Matthew (13v-47v) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by prologue and capitula (48r-73r) - A few chapters from John's Gospel (11th-century addition) (68r-72v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by prologue and capitula (73v-104v) - Gospel of John preceded by prologue and capitula (105r-129r) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (129v-134v). 0 0 In 2020 this Gospel-book was listed on the on-line catalogue of the Swiss antiquarian dealer 'Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books', and it was then sold to the _Museum of the Bible_ in Washington, DC. The available catalogue information specifies that this MS is of Breton origin, and both the script and the decoration make this attribution highly plausible. The description of the contents offered here is based on _ILLB_ In29b, as well as on the few folios accessible on the website of the _Museum of the Bible_. n/a _ILLB_ In29b; [_Museum of the Bible_](https://collections.museumofthebible.org/artifacts/29808-gospel-book-in-latin?&tab=description). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/14 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/14 1 33 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:54:44.000000Z 14 72 Museum of the Bible Washington (DC) 1 https://collections.museumofthebible.org/artifacts/29808-gospel-book-in-latin?&tab=description A few folios can be seen at the URL 15 MS AA 90.18 C.U. 18 (8 fols) IX ex. 876 900 Unknown Augustine, _De magistro_ (fragment). 0 0 To my knowledge, the only scholar to have suggested a possible connection with Brittany in relation to this fragment is Bischoff, who, in his _Kat._ (§507), states: 'Vielleicht bretonischer Schreiber.' 507 Hagen 1875: 115 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/15 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/15 17 34 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 15 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 3 10 16 MS A 92.1 + A 92.2 C.U. 1 (15 fols) and 2 (5 fols) IX 2/4 826 850 Unknown - Glossary inc. _Ancilia arma caelestia, Anceps dubium_ (A 92.1, 1r-15v) - Fragments of two glossaries, inc. _Saceltum templum modicum_ and _Auitum antiquum_ (A 92.2, 1r-5v). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §518) suggested that these two fragments, which may have originally belonged to one and the same MS, were written in Northern Francia, perhaps near Brittany. Mostert (_LF_ BF056 and BF057) argues that there is no evidence pointing to a Fleury provenance. 518 Hagen 1875: 126; _LF_ BF056 and BF057 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/16 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/16 9 35 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 16 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 9 17 MS A 92.15 C.U. 15 (1 fol.) X 1/2 901 950 Unknown Serenus Sammonicus, _De medicina praecepta_ (fragment). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._, vol. I, p. 110) suggested that this fragment might have been written in Brittany. Mostert (_LF_ BF064) argues that there is no evidence pointing to a Fleury provenance. No number; vol. I, p. 110 Hagen 1875: 128; _LF_ BF064 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/17 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/17 18 36 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 17 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 3 18 MS 85 1st C.U. (fols 1-146) IX 2/2 851 900 Fleury? - 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.). 0 0 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. 503 Alexander 1985: 271; Besseyre 2008: 12; Deuffic 2008: 129 (n. 230); [_E-Codices_](https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/description/bbb/0085/); 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_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%C3%A9vennec_Group). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/18 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/18 1 4 37 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:10:19.000000Z 18 38 Landévennec Possibly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 37 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 18 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 7 https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bbb/0085 19 MS 160 Whole MS (158 fols) XII in. 1101 1125 Fleury - Orosius, _Historiae adversus paganos_(1r-86r) - Justinus's epitome of Pompeius Trogus, _Historiae_ (87r-157v). 1 0 This MS, which contains a single Old Breton gloss at fol. 4r (_tricorihoc_ 'triangular', gl. Lat. _trigona_, cf. _DGVB_ 320), was written as late as the early twelfth century, thereby exceeding the chronological boundaries of the present hand-list; however, Fleuriot (_DGVB_ 7) stated that 'ce ms semble recopié sur un ms plus ancien.' Mostert (_LF_ BF089) reports the opinions of various scholars who have suggest several possible areas of origin: Fleury, Normandy or Brittany. In any case, it is worth recalling that several MSS with Breton affiliations preserve copies of Orosius's _Historiae_, often designated by the Celtic-Latin title _De Ormesta Mundi_: many of these MSS contain Old Breton glosses (for more details, see the entries for [Paris, BnF, Lat. 17543](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/165); [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192), [Reg.lat.691](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/200), and [Vat.lat.1974](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/205); [Venice, Bibl. Marciana, Zanetti lat. 349](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/222)) and are occasionally associated to Irish features (cf. Lambert 2018: 27). Thus, even if Bern 160 was perhaps not written in Brittany, it is nevertheless probable that its contents derived from an earlier Breton exemplar containing at least one vernacular gloss (cf. Lambert 1988: 214). According to Arnaud-Lindet (1990: lxxiv), this MS was copied from [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192). n/a Arnaud-Lindet 1990: lxxiv; Bauer 2008: 65; _DGVB_ 7; Hagen 1875: 231; Lambert 1988: 213–4; Lambert 2018: 27; Lemoine 1985: 291; _LF_ BF089; _PMSB_ 294 (§11); Simpson (McKee) 1994: 115; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 100). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/19 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/19 19 17 39 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:11:00.000000Z 19 40 Normandy Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:11:00.000000Z 19 41 Loire Valley Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:11:00.000000Z 19 42 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 41 4 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 19 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 3 11 http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129252 Not online (last checked 04/03/2020). An image of fol. 87v only can be seen at 20 MS 167 Whole MS (214 fols) IX 3/3 867 900 Auxerre? - Astronomical diagram and Isidorian astronomical excerpt (1r-v) - Introductory materials on Virgil and his works (1v-6r) - Virgil, _Bucolica_, with scholia (6v-20r) - Virgil, _Georgica_ , with introductory materials and scholia (20r-53v) - Virgil, _Aeneis_, with introductory materials and scholia (54r-214v). 1 1 This MS is very closely related to Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 172, another Virgilian codex written in a scriptorium of the Loire Valley (possibly Auxerre or Fleury): some of the scholia in Bern 167 may have been copied directly from Bern 172, or the scholia in both manuscripts may have been taken from the same lost exemplar (cf. _LF_ BF093 and BF097). The scholia in question are important: Bern 167 preserves a partial copy of famous scholia to Virgil's works, which might have gone through a stage of transmission or even compilation in Ireland (cf. Daintree 1999; Lambert 1986: 91; Miles 2011: 28–32). As for the place of origin of this MS, while on the one hand some scholars have tentatively placed the writing of Bern 167 in centres of the Loire Valley (typically Fleury or Auxerre, cf. e.g. Savage 1925: 95; Savage 1932: 105, and see _LF_ BF093 for further references; for an ascription to Tours, cf. _OHLP_ 244), on the other hand Bischoff (_Kat._ §542) did not hesitate to ascribe it to Brittany, apparently on account of its insular abbreviations and numerous Old Breton glosses (nearly ninety, some of which show parallels with Old Irish glosses of the 'Philargyrian' tradition, cf. Lambert 1994: 101; Lambert 2018: 28). Indeed, it must be stressed that numerous insular abbreviations occur throughout the MS, including the strong Breton diagnostic _ɔc_ for _contra_ (cf. e.g. fol. 1va, line 13 from the bottom; cf. Lemoine 2008: 190; for the abbreviations used in this MS, see Lemoine 1985: 30–2). It seems therefore rather likely that Bern 167 was written in a Breton scriptorium in contact with Carolingian centres in the Loire Valley, where Virgilian scholia (some of which may have come from the _regiones Scottorum_, either directly or through English, Welsh or Breton channels) were copied and studied. In this context, it may be useful to note that Ganz (2007: 34–5) also ascribed the important Virgilian codex Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 165, to Brittany; however, this claim seems unfounded, as in fact that MS was in all likelihood written in the abbey of Saint Martin at Tours (indeed, here '165' could be no more than a simple slip for '167'). 542 Bauer 2008: 65–80; _CLH_ §569 (with abundant bibliography); Daintree 1999; Deuffic 2008: 129 (n. 230); _DGVB_ 4; [_E-Codices_](https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/description/bbb/0167/Mittenhuber); Hagen 1867: 689–92; Hagen 1875: 234–5; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0040 ); Kerlouégan 1982b: 317; Lambert 1986: 90–1; Lambert 1994: 100–1; Lambert 2018: 27–8; Lemoine 1985: 24–32, 288; Lemoine 2008: 190; _LF_ BF093; Miles 2011: 28–32; _OHLP_ 244; _PMSB_ 294 (§12); Riché 2004: 20; Savage 1925: 94–5; Savage 1932: 103–5; Schrijver 2011: 9; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 96); Stokes 1879–80: 324–5, 327–38; Thilo / Hagen 1881–7: vol. I, lxi–lxii; Ziolkowski and Putnam 2008: 674–6. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/20 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/20 20 21 22 43 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:07:30.000000Z 20 44 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 20 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 1 https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bbb/0167 21 MS 179 Whole MS (64 fols) IX 3/3 867 900 Fleury - Boethius, _De Consolatione Philosophiae_, with scholia (1r-63v) - Neumes (3r) - Fragment of Priscian, _Partitiones duodecim versuum Aeneidos principalium_ (64r-v). 0 0 Mostert (_LF_ BF100) points out that 'some letters remind one of the later English minuscule', and that 'the illumination on f. 31r was made in Brittany or by a Breton.' Moreover, Bischoff (_Kat._ 548) notes the presence of a 'kuriose insuleske Init[iale]' at fol. 1v. The scholia to Boethius's _De consolatione philosophiae_ may be (according to a suggestion formulated by Courcelle and reported in Pellegrin 1984–5: 161) 'une rédaction abrégée du commentaire de Remi d'Auxerre'; indeed, Pellegrin (1984–5: 162–3) proposed to consider Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.1529 (containing works by Seneca and probably written in a centre of the Loire Valley) as a MS possibly close to Bern 179, and Papahagi (2010: 33–4, n. 76) lists the Bern codex among the copies of the _Consolatio_ possibly or probably produced at Fleury. Overall, the evidence in favour of a Breton origin seems rather weak. 548 Hagen 1875: 239; _LF_ BF100; Papahagi 2010: 33–4 (n. 76); Pellegrin 1988: 289, 291, 293; Riché 2004: 20. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/21 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/21 13 23 45 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:12:45.000000Z 21 46 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:12:45.000000Z 21 47 Loire Valley Probably 3 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:08:33.000000Z 21 48 Auxerre Possibly 47°47'51.8"N 3°34'21.6"E coordinates for Auxerre 47.797722 3.572667 47 4 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 21 49 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 47 5 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 21 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 3 http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129267 Not online (last checked 07/03/2020). An image of fol. 3r only can be seen at 22 MS 207 Whole MS (195 fols) VIII ex. (AD 779-797?) 776 800 Fleury Numerous grammatical tracts and some _computistica_, including: - Beda, _De temporum ratione_, I (fol. 1Ar-v) - Various alphabets (fols 1Av-1Br) - Easter table, followed by _De titulis pascalis Aegyptiorum_ and _De indictione_ (fol. 1Bv) - Donatus, _Ars minor_ and passages from _Ars maior_, I and III (fols 2r-17r) - Julian of Toledo, _Ars grammatica_ (fols 18v-77v) - Servius Honoratus, _De centum metris_ (fols 77v-80v) - Julian of Toledo, _De partibus orationis_ (fols 81v-101r) - Donatus, passages from _Ars maior_, II (fols 101r-112r) - Anonymous, _De littera_ (fols 112r-113r) - _Ars Dieziana_, excerpts from Donatus's _Ars minor_, excerpts from the _Ars Petri_ (fols 113r-127r) - Asper minor, _Ars grammatica_ (fols 130r-140r) - Sergius, _Explanationes de prioribus Donati_ (fols 140r-148r) - Peter of Pisa, _Ars grammatica_ (148r-168r) - Excerpts from Isidore, _Etymologiae_, I, II, III, VI (fols 168r-194v) - _Cursus lunae per duodecim signa_ (fol. 194v). 0 1 Holtz (1981: 364) offers an eloquent description of this MS: 'L'ensemble du manuscrit formait sans doute un manuel des arts libéraux dans lequel la place de loin la plus importante était réservée à la grammaire.' A paschal table occurring on fol. 1Bv covers the years 779 to 797: this MS could therefore date from the very end of the eighth century. [Paris, BnF, Lat. 7520](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/140), fols 1-26, originally constituted fols 212–35 of the same MS, and Ganz (1990: 140) suggests that fols 23r-25v of [Paris, BnF, Lat. 14088](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/161) may have also belonged to the same codex. This MS presents very significant Irish affiliations, in terms of abbreviations, script and decoration (cf. e.g. fol. 2r); moreover, it contains Old Irish glosses at fols 146v and 148r (cf. Lindsay 1923; Bronner 2017: 2; Lash 2019), a most interesting and exceedingly rare use of the Ogam alphabet at fol. 1Br (cf. Derolez 1951), and the title _In nomine Dei summi incipit ars Donati grammatici urbis Romae_ at fol. 2r (the formula _In nomine Dei summi_ is often associated with the transmission of insular texts). Mostert (_LF_ BF110) states that this MS offers 'an example of the "Bildung hybrider keltisch-festländischer Schriften aus Fleury", on a Breton substratum' (a reference to the view formulated in Bischoff 1990: 90; another Fleury manuscript from c. AD 800 presenting significant insular palaeographical features is the flyleaf of Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Helmst. 455, about which cf. _CLA_ 9, §1380; _Kat._ §7333; Bischoff 1990: 114, n. 11; _LF_ BF1538). In view of the clearly 'insular' character of Bern 207, it is perhaps not inconceivable that at least some of its contents (e.g., the above-mentioned text in Ogam) were copied from a heavily Irish-influenced Breton exemplar. However, overall, it must be acknowledged that the link between this important MS and Brittany is tenuous at best. 551a Bischoff 1990: 90; Bronner 2017: 2; _CLA_ 5, §568, and vol. 7, **568 = [_ELMSS_](https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/930) and [_ELMSS_](https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1260); Derolez 1951; Derolez 1953: 174–92; [_E-Codices_](https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/description/bbb/0207/Mittenhuber); Ganz 1990: 140–1; Hagen 1875: 255; Holtz 1981: 361–4; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0042); Lash 2019; _LF_ BF110; Lindsay 1923; [_MIrA_](http://www.mira.ie/173); Munzi 2007: 15–7; _PMSB_ 295 (§13); Pellegrin 1988: 287–9, 333; Vidier 1965: 42 (n. 112.7), 56 (n. 195.8). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/22 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/22 6 13 50 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:24:15.000000Z 22 51 Fleury Certainly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 50 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 22 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 2 12 https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bbb/0207/1r/0/Sequence-1568 23 MS 277 Whole MS (97 fols) IX 2/3 (or X?) 834 866 Fleury - _Hymnus qui Sabbato sancto ad lavandos pedes cantatur_, inc. _Congregauit nos in unum Christi amor_ (fol. 1r) - Ambrose, _De officiis ministrorum_ (fols 1v-96v). 0 0 The date indicated here is taken from Bischoff, _Kat._ §567, while Hagen (1875: 304) and Mostert (_LF_ BF144) place the MS in the tenth century. Indeed, at fols 1v-2r the following inscription occurs: _Hunc codicem Mabbo episcopus dedit sancto Benedicto, inprecans ut siquis eum abstulerit anathema sit. Amen_ ('Mabbo the bishop gave this codex to [the monastery of] Saint Benedict, invoking a curse upon anyone who may take it away. Amen'); this individual may well be Mabbo, bishop of Saint-Pol of Léon in Brittany, who, in the middle of the tenth century (c. AD 952–962), 'came to Fleury bearing the relics of Saint Paul Aurelian, an early bishop who had become the patron of his diocese. He arrived bearing not only the relics, but some ornate gospel books and even liturgical vestments' (Head 1990: 56, summarising details found in the _Miracula Sancti Benedicti_; cf. also Vidier 1965: 101–2, n. 186; Riché 2004: 18–21). However, _pace_ Deuffic 2008: 113, there is no indication whatsoever that Bern 277 should be considered as one of the MSS that Mabbo brought from Brittany to Fleury, and it is therefore unclear what the above-mentioned inscription might mean. If the MS was written in the tenth century, then Mabbo could have paid for its production while he resided at Fleury; however, if Bischoff is correct in dating it to the ninth century, then how could Mabbo offer or dedicate this MS, written at a much earlier date _at_ Fleury, _to_ the abbey of Fleury? As an aside, it is worth mentioning that a beautiful dry-point drawing of a man (an ecclesiastic?) can be seen at fol. 55r in the inferior margin. 567 Deuffic 2008: 113; Ganz 2020: 242; Gougaud 1923: 5–6; Guillotel 1982: 280; Hagen 1875: 304; _LF_ BF144; _PMSB_ 295 (§14); Riché 1994: 18–21; Smith 1992: 164 (n. 66), 170 (n. 92); Vidier 1965: 40, 101–2 (n. 186). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/23 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/23 17 28 52 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:26:17.000000Z 23 53 Fleury Certainly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 52 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 23 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 2 13 http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129353 Not on-line (last checked 10/03/2020). An image of fol. 1v only (containing Mabbo's inscription) can be seen at 24 MS 394 Whole MS (I + 232 fols) X ex. 976 1000 Fleury - _Carmen de Herico_ with neumes (fol. I) - Prudentius, _Carmina_, including the _Hamartigenia_ and the _Psychomachia_, with scholia (1r-225v) - Avitus of Vienne, _Homilia de rogationibus_ (225v-226r) Among the various poems and hymns copied in this MS we find also: - Alcuin, _Versus ad Samuelem ecclesiae Sennensis episcopum_, inc. _Est mihi seruili scripulus dicione subactus_ (226v-227r) - Anonymous poem addressed to Constantine, monk of Fleury and later abbot of Micy, inc. _Constantine meis opus est non promere uerbis_ (227v-230r) - Anonymous poem _de fratre Bovone_, inc. _Conuenio signis quem conuenisse loquelis_ (230r-231r). 0 0 The date indicated here is taken from _LF_ BF180 (cf. also Bischoff, _Kat._ §590, indicating s. IX / X). In relation to the origin of this MS, Bischoff states (_Kat._ §590): 'Westfrankreich (wahrscheinlich bretonischer Einfluß).' Bischoff's comment seems to be the only (tenuous) link between Brittany and this codex, which in fact may have been written anywhere in Western Francia, possibly in a monastery of the Loire Valley such as Fleury, Micy or Auxerre. 590 Hagen 1875: 362–3; _LF_ BF180. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/24 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/24 21 22 28 27 54 Western Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 24 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 2 http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129450 Not on-line (last checked 10/03/2020). An image of fol. 1r only can be seen at 25 MS 441 Whole MS (16 fols = 2 quires) X (after AD 909) 909 1000 Saint-Maixent of Poitiers - _Tetragonus subiectus_ and other prognostics, partially erased and with _anathema_ (1r) - Various computistica with _regulares_, _concurrentes_, _termini paschales_ etc. (1v-2r) - Calendar (2v-14v) - Paschal argumentum, inc. _Notum sit omnibus hominibus ut quicunque aduentum Domini ueratiter celebrare uult_ (14v) - Computistical poem _None aprilis norunt quinos_ (14v-15r) - Lunar prognostic _De diuersis causis probatio per lunam_ (15r-16r) - Prayer, inc. _Omnipotens sempiterne Deus iudex iustus et misericors_ (16v) - Second copy of the paschal argumentum also copied at fol. 14v (16v) - Argumentum for the _concurrentes_ (16v). 0 0 For the dating after AD 909, cf. Morin 1931: 78. There is no evidence to suggest that this MS was written in Brittany. The script rather points to a centre somewhere in Northern (or North-Western) Francia (perhaps in the Loire Valley?), and to a date of writing in the late tenth century, perhaps close to AD 1000. However, in addition to numerous saints associated with Poitiers, Tours, Bourges, Limoges and Orléans, the calendar that occupies fols 2v–14v also contains the names of many Breton saints, such as: _sancti Gildasii confessoris_ (January 29), _depositio sancti Uuingualoei abbatis_ (March 3), _natalis [...] sancti Corentini episcopi_ (May 1), _sanctorum Donatiani et Rogatiani_ (May 24), _translatio sancti Benedicti abbatis et sancti Machuti<s>_ (July 11), _sancti Sansonis episcopi_ (July 28), _Sansoni episcopi_ (September 28), _Turonis sancti Uedasti et sancti Melanii episcopi_ (October 11), _sancti Melanii episcopi_ (November 6), _sancti Macutis episcopi_ (November 15) (for a more exhaustive list, cf. Morin 1931: 80, 84–93; note also the mention of _sancti Fursei_ at January 16 and February 9). The simultaneous presence of saints associated with Brittany and with the Poitou is due, according to Morin (1931: 80–2), to the complex journey of the relics of Maixent (Maxentius), a late fifth- / early sixth-century saint whose body was translated from Poitiers to Plélan (a daughter-house of Redon) in the ninth century. No number; vol. I, p. 128 Borst 2001: I, p. liii; Borst 2004: 141–3; Deuffic 2008: 116; Hagen 1875: 384–5; _LF_ BF189; Morin 1931; [_The Calendar and the Cloister_](https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/ms-17/apparatus.php?page=related_manuscripts). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/25 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/25 6 5 30 55 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 25 7 Burgerbibliothek Bern 2 6 http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/detail.aspx?ID=129487 Not on-line (last checked 10/03/2020). An image of fol. 8v only (calendar) can be seen at 26 MS 1 Whole MS (405 fols) XI 2/2 1051 1100 Abbey of La Sauve-Majeure (Gironde) - Jerome, _Epistola secunda ad Paulinum de omnibus divinae historiae libris_ (1r-3v) - Jerome, preface to Genesis and capitula (3v-4v) - Old Testament (5r-356r) - Acts of the Apostles, Epistle of James, Epistle of Jude, Epistles of Paul (357r-405v). 0 0 This MS, known as 'Bible of Redon', is now divided into two volumes. This is an imposing illuminated Bible, probably written at either Redon or, more likely, Mont-Saint-Michel (for the close links between these two centres during the tenth and eleventh century, see _ILLB_ V206, p. 167). Two papal bulls (dating respectively from AD 1147 and AD 1073–85) and a charter, all concerning Redon, occur at fols 249v and 259v. n/a _CGM_ 23: 1–3; _ILLB_ V206; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/11677); _MPF_ §227; _PMSB_ 295–6 (§15); 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/26 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/26 24 56 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:29:59.000000Z 26 57 Redon Possibly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 56 2 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 26 58 Normandy Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:29:59.000000Z 26 59 Mont-Saint-Michel Possibly 48°38'10.0"N 1°30'40.4"W coordinates for Mont-Saint-Michel 48.636111 -1.511222 58 4 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 26 8 BM Bordeaux 3 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=3983 Vol. I: https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=3981 Vol. II: http://bibliotheque.bordeaux.fr/in/faces/imageReader.xhtml?id=BordeauxBNSA_1244&pageIndex=1&mode=simple&selectedTab=thumbnail See also: 27 MS 8 Whole MS (126 fols) IX ex. 876 900 Arras? - Jerome, _Epistola Beato papae_ (1r-2v) - Canon tables (3r-7v) - Gospel of Matthew (8r-42r) - Gospel of Mark (42r-62r) - Gospel of Luke (63r-95r) - Gospel of John (95v-117v) - _Capitula evangeliorum de circulo anni_ (118r-126v). 0 0 This MS contains portraits of Matthew (fol. 8r), Mark (fol. 42r, with horse head), Luke (fol. 62v), and John (fol. 95v), belonging to the so-called 'Landévennec group.' Both the script and the decoration point clearly to an origin in Brittany. While it is not possible to confirm with absolute certainly that this MS was written at Landévennec, the fact that it may have been brought to Montreuil-sur-Mer by Breton monks in the early tenth century nevertheless does lend some support to this localisation (the monastery of Landévennec was destroyed by the Vikings in AD 913, and the community famously fled to monasteries on the Channel; cf. _EBGB_ 17; Le Bourdellès 1995: 45). 657 Besseyre 2008: 12; _EBGB_ 14; Fleuriot 1983: 104; Gameson 2012d: 63 (n. 221); Guillotel 1985: 12; _ILLB_ In8; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/10037/2370); Kerlouégan 1982b: 318; Kitzinger 2013b: 36–7; Le Bourdellès 1995: 45; Lemoine 1994; Lemoine 2008: 192–3; McGurk 1987: 175, n. 45; _MPF_ §93; _OHLP_ 256; _PMSB_ 296 (§16); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 285, 289; [_Wikipedia_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%C3%A9vennec_Group). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/27 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/27 1 60 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:50.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:30:54.000000Z 27 61 Landévennec Probably 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 60 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 27 9 BM Boulogne-sur-Mer 7 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=11888 Partial facsimile at 28 MS 9850-9852 Fragment of 4 fols (fols 1r-v, 177r-v) IX / X 801 1000 Abbey of Saint Vaast (Arras) Fragment from a Psalter. 0 0 This is a fragment consisting of four folios from a Psalter which, in Bischoff's view, may have been written near Brittany (_Kat._ §737). I am not aware of other potential links with Brittany. 737 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-03-2020 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/28 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/28 3 62 Near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 28 10 Bibliothèque Royale Brussels 9 https://opac.kbr.be/Library/doc/SYRACUSE/17287069/sermones-ms-9850-52 29 MS 625 (576) Whole MS (80 fols) IX ex. 876 900 Cambrai Cathedral - Conciliary canons, close to the _Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana_ (1r-47v) - Excerpts from the Bible and the Fathers (47v-51r) - _Canones Hibernenses_ (III, IV, VI of ed. Wasserschleben 1874) (51v-52; 68r-v; 70v-71v) - _Praefatio Gildae_, _Synodus Aquilonalis Britanniae_, _Synodus Luci Victoriae_, _Excerpta de libro Dauidis_ (52r-54v) - _Canones Adamnani_, end only (54v) - _Paenitentiale Bigotianum_ (56v-66r) - Theodulf of Orléans, _Capitularium_ I (66r-67r) - _Proverbia Grecorum_, extracts (68v-69r) - Salic Law, fragment (71v-80r). 1 1 Bischoff (_Kat._ §805), who confidently ascribed this MS to Brittany, described it as the 'Rest eines viel größeren Corpus'. It contains a few interlinear glosses (some of which are in Old Breton), and the plainly Breton name _Iunhoiar\n/_—probably the scribe's name—occurs at fol. 20r (cf. Lemoine 2001: 262). As pointed out by Meeder, pp. 184–356 of the famous _Codex Bigotianus_ ([Paris, BnF, Lat. 3182](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/134)) are 'virtually identical to the contents of Cambrai 625' (Meeder 2009: 184, n. 38); indeed, some of the contents of the former may have been copied from a collection very close to the latter. It should be noted that Meeder (ibid.) also states that Cambrai 625 was probably written at Cambrai, a view that may be based on the opinion expressed by Mordek (1995: 93), who attributes this MS to 'Nordfrankreich.' In view of the above-mentioned presence of a Breton name at fol. 20r, a Breton origin seems somewhat more likely, but of course we cannot exclude that this MS was written by a Breton scribe working in a Northern Frankish scriptorium around the end of the ninth century (indeed, note that this MS is labelled as 'non-Breton' in Flechner 2008: 42, n. 69). 805 Bieler 1963: 13, 22; Bradshaw 1889: 415; [CCfr](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D23012239); _CGM_ 17: 242–4; _CLH_ 740 (§578), 755 (§582), 791 (§621); Deuffic 2008: 79; Dumville 1984b: 214; Dumville 1994: 93, n. 26; Flechner 2008: 42, n. 69; Lemoine 2001: 262; Lemoine 2005: 21; Mordek 1995: 93–4; Wright 2006: 194, 202. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/29 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/29 25 26 10 63 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:31:48.000000Z 29 64 Northern Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:31:48.000000Z 29 65 Cambrai Possibly 50°10'19.8"N 3°14'00.1"E coordinates for Cambrai 50.172167 3.233361 64 3 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 29 11 BM Cambrai 3 14 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=10393 Partial facsimile at 30 MS 679 (619) Whole MS (72 fols) VIII 2/2 (AD 763-790) 763 790 Cambrai Cathedral - Recension A of _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, incomplete (1r-37r; 38v-72v) - 'Cambrai Homily' in Early Old Irish (37v-38v). 0 1 This MS, which is written in an early form of Caroline minuscule with signficant insular features (especially at fols 37–38, on whose contents see below), was commissioned by Albericus, bishop of Cambrai (AD 763–90) and Arras, as revealed by the colophon at fol. 75: _Explicit liber canonum quem domnus Albericus episcopus urbis Camaracinsium et Adrabatinsium fieri rogauit. Deo gratias. Amen._ (cf. _CLA_ vol. 6, §741). As for the place of writing, while the colophon might point to Cambrai, Bischoff suggested that this MS may have been written at Péronne (Bischoff 1994: 27). In addition to an incomplete copy of Recension A of the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, the scribe inadvertendly copied at fols 37–8 a long text in Early Old Irish, usually known as 'Cambrai Homily', introduced by the formula _In nomine Dei summi_ (ed. _Thes_ II, xxvi, 244–7). Dumville (1994: 86, 93) argues that this MS is connected 'in certain textual peculiarities [...] with a group of three other manuscripts, one of which also belongs to the eighth century and visibly stands in an insular line of transmission'; the MSS in question are: Cologne, Dombibliothek, 210 (the eighth-century MS mentioned by Dumville), Chartres, BM, 124 (127) (s. X; destroyed in 1944; its contents began with the formula _In nomine Dei summi_ according to CGM 11: 67), and [Tours, BM, 556](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/217) (s. IX; from Marmoutiers, also destroyed during the Second World War). Unfortunately, Dumville does not elaborate on the possible connections between these MSS and Cambrai 670, but some details may be found in Bradshaw 1893: 10–11, 18–9 (cf. also Flechner 2019: 94–5). To my knowledge, the only possible Breton affiliation concerning this MS is the word _Emmanuel_, written in the superior margin of fol. 1r: as has been recently pointed out by Lambert (2018: 20, citing from Bradshaw 1893: 24), 'Bradshaw remarked that the word Emmanuel [....] also occurred in the margin of two other manuscripts of Breton origin [i.e., [Paris, BnF, Lat. 3182](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/134) and [Orléans, Médiathèque, 221 (193)](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99)]. This, according to him, is "a possible indication that all three manuscripts were copied from a prototype existing in Brittany, which was itself written at a time when a greater number of Irish students were to be found in the monasteries of Saint Gildas at Rhuys and of Winwaloe at Landevennech, than was likely to be the case in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries".' Although this is far from being a sufficient proof, Bradshaw's view is nonetheless at least reasonable, especially in view of the very prominent role played by Brittany in the transmission of the _Canones Hibernenses_ (cf. Dumville 1994; Flechner 2008; Lambert 2018: 18–23). n/a Bischoff 1994: 27; Bradshaw 1889: 414; Bradshaw 1893: 20–4; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D23012373); _CGM_ 17: 257–8; _CLA_ 6, §741 = [_ELMSS_](https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1147); _CLH_ 766–7 (§597); Dumville 1994: 86–7, 93; Enright 1985: 88, n. 47; Flechner 2019: I, 52, 94–5; Lambert 1994: 98; Lambert 2018: 20; [_MIrA_](http://www.mira.ie/008); _Thes_ II, xxvi. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/30 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/30 25 27 66 Northern Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:33:10.000000Z 30 67 Cambrai Possibly 50°10'19.8"N 3°14'00.1"E coordinates for Cambrai 50.172167 3.233361 66 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 30 68 Péronne Possibly 49°55'43.9"N 2°56'06.8"E 49.928861 2.935222 66 3 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 30 11 BM Cambrai 2 12 https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1147 A few images from this MS are available at https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=10419 See also: 31 MS 1208 (1084) Whole MS (110 fols) IX 2/3 or 3/3 834 900 Unknown Gospel of Mark, with commentary (incomplete). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §811) attributes this MS to the area of Soissons, where, in his view, it was written around the second or third third of the ninth century. In relation to some abbreviations contained therein (especially for _-tur_, also used word-internally), Bischoff suggests: 'etwa bretonischer Einfluß?.' I am not aware of any other Breton affiliation concerning this MS. 811 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D23014465); _CGM_ 17: 459–60. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/31 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/31 2 1 69 Soissons area Possibly 49°22'51.3"N 3°19'30.6"E coordinates for Soissons 49.380917 3.325167 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 31 11 BM Cambrai 2 32 MS 192 Whole MS (99 fols) AD 952 952 952 Canterbury - Amalarius, _Liber officialis_ (version known as _Retractatio prima_) (1r-37r; 39r-97r) - Excerpts from Rufinus's translation of Eusebius, _Historia Ecclesiastica_, and brief passages from the works of Jerome (37r-38v) - Detailed colophon (97v) - _Ordo Romanus_ XXXII (99r; this is an added folio, and 99v is empty or illegible). 1 0 This MS was written by five different hands in Caroline minuscule; both the script and the codicological features betray substantial insular influence, a fact which may be at least partially due to dependency on an English exemplar containing the _Retractatio Prima_ of Amalarius's _Liber officialis_ (cf. Dumville 1992: 133–4, 135–7; Dumville 1994b: 208–10; for the Breton engagement with Amalarius's work, see also the entry for [Paris, BnF, NAL 1983](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/171) in the present Handlist). There are no doubts as to the Breton origin of this MS. First of all, it contains six Old Breton glosses. More conclusively, an unusually informative colophon occurring on fol. 97v (cf. Dumville 1994b: 206; _PMSB_ 297) tells us—with abundance of computistical details—that the MS was written in AD 952 at the behest of _Amadeus diaconus atque habitu monachus_ (where _Amadeus_ is probably a calque on Breton _Caradoc_), who commissioned it 'for the sake of his own soul, for the benefit of [his] brethren' (_pro sua anima ad utilitatem fratrum_); moreover, the colophon includes an _anathema_—written in a different hand—against whomever may steal the MS 'from the brethren of Saint Winwaloe' (_a fratribus sancti Uuingualoei_), thereby indicating that this codex was written at Landévennec (cf. Dumville 1994b: 207–8). The fact that this MS can be dated and localised so precisely has understandably led Dumville (1992: 132) to describe Corpus Christi 192 as 'un des étais les plus assurés de la paléographie bretonne.' As has been suggested by Deuffic (_ILLB_ Q232, p. 226), the MS may have been written in the context of the '«redéploiement» de l'abbaye [de Landévennec] au lendemain du retour des moines de leur exil insulaire [en Angleterre].' It is worth mentioning some additional notable features. On fol. 97r, the explicit of Amalarius's _Liber officialis_ is written in Greek letters (ΦΙΝΙΘ DΗΟ 7ΡΛΤΙΛC ΛΜΗN = _Finit Deo gratias amen_). Moreover, the colophon at fol. 97v presents the rare use of the verb _scrutari_ in the sense of 'reading' or 'studying carefully', found in other Breton, Cornish and Irish MSS: [Oxford, Bodleian Lib., Bodley 572](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/117) (written by a Cornish scribe named Bledian), fol. 36r; [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192), fol. 107v; Dublin, Trinity College, MS 60 (A.1.15, best known as 'Book of Mulling', written in Ireland in the late eighth century), fol. 94ra (cf. Bradshaw 1889: 472; Lemoine 1988; Lambert 2018: 7; but consider also Lemoine 2010: 216, n. 7, where the author rejects his former characterisation of _scrutari_ for 'studying' as a Hisperic feature). n/a _ASM_ 75–6 (§61); Bauer 2008: 132; Bradshaw 1889: 412, 472, 486; _DGVB_ 6; Deuffic 1985a: 271–2; Deuffic 1985c: 2; Deuffic 2008: 112; Dumville 1992; Dumville 1994b; Fleuriot 1966: 417–19; Fleuriot 1966b: 471; Fleuriot 1970: 553–5; Guillotel 1985: 22–3; Huglo 1985: 246; _ILLB_ Q232; James 1912: I, 465–6; Kerlouégan 1982b: 317; Lambert 2018: 7; Lapidge 1992: 100, n. 24; Lebecq 2020: 94; Lemoine 1985: 290; Lemoine 1988: 234–6; McKitterick 2012: 330; _PMSB_ 296–7 (§19); Schrijver 2011: 11; Smith 1992: 169 (n. 89), 175 (n. 120); Stokes 1879–80: 338. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/32 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/32 4 17 70 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:34:08.000000Z 32 71 Landévennec Certainly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 70 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 32 12 Corpus Christi Cambridge 7 https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/ff646yg8822 33 MS 221 1st C.U. (fols 1-24) X 1/2 901 950 - Canterbury - Given to Corpus Christi College by Daniel Rogers in the late 16th century. - Alcuin, _De orthographia_ (incomplete) (1r-9r) - Bede, _De orthographia_ (9r-24v). 0 0 In Bischoff's _Kat._ (I, p. 80), this MS is ascribed to a 'Bretonisches Zentrum', where it may have been written during the first half of the tenth century. Presumably these conclusions are based on Bischoff's assessment of the palaeographical evidence, as well as on the brief but careful analysis presented in Bishop 1955: 187–9 (where this MS is discussed together with [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius, 144](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/37)); in these notes, Bishop identifies several insular codicological features in the preparation of the Corpus Christi MS, as well as in its abbreviation system. Indeed, in view of the Breton influence on the formation of English Caroline minuscule, one wonders whether this MS could not have been written in England, perhaps at Canterbury (in which case it should probably be dated to the second half of the tenth century). Regardless of its origin, it is in any way most likely that this MS reached Canterbury at a very early stage, perhaps already towards the end of the tenth century (cf. Simpson (McKee) 2012: 340). No number; vol. I, p. 180 _ASM_ 89–90 (§69); Bishop 1955: 187–9; James 1912: I, 519–20; Simpson (McKee) 2012: 340. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 26-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/33 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/33 13 72 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:34:29.000000Z 33 73 England Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:34:29.000000Z 33 74 Canterbury Possibly 51°16'40.4"N 1°05'18.4"E coordinates for Saint Augustine's abbey at Canterbury 51.277889 1.088444 73 3 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 33 12 Corpus Christi Cambridge 3 https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/xs065nt0349 34 MS 279 Whole MS (188 pages) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Worcester - First Synod of Saint Patrick (_Sinodus episcoporum id est Patricii Auxilii Issernini_) (1-11) - Canons and patristic excerpta affiliated to the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_ (11-105) - _Liber ex lege Moysi_ (106-148) - Blessings, maledictions and Biblical quotations (148-154) - Canons about baptism and extracts from _Hibernensis_, IV, concerning bishops (155-157, with one certainly Old Breton gloss at p. 156) - Excerpts from the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, recension A (157-188). 1 1 As for the manuscript's date, the range offered here is an attempt to combine the elements presented in Simpson (McKee) 1994: 109–11 (the most detailed study of this MS available in print), and the dating indicated in Bischoff, _Kat._ §818. It is highly probable that this MS was written in Western Francia, probably at Tours (cf. Simpson (McKee) 1994: 109–11, _pace_ Ganz, who has recently included this MS among 'copies of the Irish _Collectio Hibernensis_ copied in Brittany' in _OHLP_ 257). Interestingly, CCCC 279 contains eleven Old Irish glosses and at least one Old Breton gloss, or possibly two (cf. _Thes_ II, 38; Simpson (McKee) 1994: 117–18; Lambert 1994: 98), especially concerning the _Liber ex lege Moysi_; to these clearly vernacular glosses we should add several 'Latin' glosses which may in fact contain corruptions of Old Irish words, as well as Hiberno-Latin features (as shown in Lambert 2020). Thus, it is most likely that these vernacular glosses were copied in Tours from the same exemplar from which the main texts were taken. The evidence suggests a three-step process of transmission: (1) composition of an Irish archetype with Old Irish glosses; (2) production of a copy in Brittany, with addition of at least one or two Old Breton glosses; (3) writing of the extant MS, probably in one of the scriptoria of ninth-century Tours (cf. Simpson (McKee) 1994: 113–16). It is quite possible or even probable that CCCC 279 was copied directly from a Breton exemplar: Meeder (2009: 184) points out, in relation to the copy of the _Liber ex lege Moysi_ contained in this MS, that Corpus Christi 279 'is probably closest to the original version in contents.' Accordingly, Dumville's definition of this MS as a 'ninth century Turonian manuscript with Hiberno-Breton antecedents' seems perfectly accurate (Dumville 1994: 91). Indeed, Lambert (2020: 56) has recently concluded that this MS 'présente des caractéristiques indiquant qu'il vient de Tours, mais les gloses bretonnes et irlandaises dénoncent un modèle breton et un archétype irlandais'. 818 Ambrose 2011: 55; _ASL_ 167–8; _ASM_ 96–7 (§81); Bauer 2008: 132–3; Bieler 1963: 15, 21, 24; Bradshaw 1889: 415; Bronner 2017: 5–6 (esp. n. 11); _CLH_ 768 (§601), 789–90 (§620); _DGVB_ 6; Dumville 1994: 88, 91, 93; Elliot 2013: 104–5; James 1912: II, 42–4; Lambert 1994: 98; Lambert 2018: 22; Lambert 2020; Lemoine 1985: 290; Lemoine 2005: 21; Meeder 2009: 182–9; [_MIrA_](http://www.mira.ie/203); _OHLP_ 257; _PMSB_ 297 (§20); Schrijver 2011: 11; Simpson (McKee) 1994; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 287; Smith 1992: 168 (n. 83); _Thes_ II, xi, 38. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/34 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/34 25 10 75 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:34:47.000000Z 34 76 Tours Possibly 47°23'35.6"N 0°40'57.1"E coordinates for Tours 47.393222 0.682528 75 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 34 12 Corpus Christi Cambridge 2 15 https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/bk550db6454 35 MS 320 2nd C.U. (54 fols: 117r-170v) X 3/4 951 975 Unknown - Penitential admonition in Old English (117r-v) - Penitential of Theodore (incomplete) (119r-141r) - Gregory and Augustine of Canterbury, _Libellus responsionum_ (141r-154r) - Poem by Archbishop Theodore, inc. _Te nunc sancte speculator_ (154v) - Order of Confession and _Paenitentiale Sangermanense_ (or _Cantabrigiense_) (155r-166v) - Encyclopaedic notes on Christ's Incarnation; the Six Ages of the World and the Ages of Man; world chronology (with 5199 years from Creation to the Incarnation, deriving from the Eusebius-Jerome Chronicle); the numbers of bones, veins and teeth in the human body; the size of the world; the Temple of Solomon; the Tabernacle; Saint Peter's in Rome; Noah's Ark; the numbers of books in the Old and the New Testament; the number of verses in the Psalms; units for measuring distances; the sequence of events in the Seven Days of Creation; the site of Jerusalem (166v-169v) - Fragment of the _Scriftboc_ (170r). 0 0 In all likelihood, this MS was written at St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury. Although in most of the scholarly literature this MS is dated to the second half or the end of the tenth century, the more precise dating provided here is based on Gameson's view, as reported in Delen _et al._ 2012: 344. According to Bishop (1957), CCCC 320 belongs to a group of Canterbury MSS written in a relatively early form of English Caroline minuscule, still presenting numerous insular abbreviations (cf. Bishop 1957: 332). Bishop (1957: 334) pointed out what follows in relation to a number of specific palaeographical features: 'The archaic features of the script [of this group of MSS] include frequent open _g_ and occasional open _a_, and these have been held to characterize the minuscule of the ninth rather than the tenth century. [...] Perhaps it would be safer to take open _g_ and _a_ with some other recurrent features of the Caroline in this series [...] as deriving from the style of a particular and perhaps rather backward continental scriptorium. Wherever this was (I don't think it was Fleury), the generally excellent script of this series need not be supposed to derive from any first-rate model. The drawings and ornaments of these and many other English MSS. can show [...] how continental models might be transformed out of recognition by the artistic momentum of tenth-century England.' Although Bishop never mentioned Brittany, it is hard not to think of that region as the possible area of origin of (one of) the exemplar(s) of CCCC 320—a suspicion that may receive some support from Lindsay's observation of an abbreviation _c̅_ for _cum_ in this MS as well as in [London, BL, Cotton Otho E.XIII](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/69), [Orléans, Médiathèque, 221 (193)](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99), and [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/118) (Lindsday 1912: 266). Moreover, in view of the strong Breton interest in canon law and penitentials, the contents of this MS are eminently compatible with the possible existence of an underlying Breton exemplar. It should finally be pointed out that the interesting collection of encylopaedic notes occurring at fols 166v–169v (whose description presented here in the section 'Contents' above is adapted from _ASM_ 103) is very similar to a section of Cambridge, Corpus Christi, MS 183 (written in England in the late eleventh century). n/a _ASM_ 103–4 (§90; fols 117–70); Bishop 1957: 326, 330–; Delen _et al._ 2002: 343–4; James 1912: II, 132–7; Ker 1957: 105–6 (§58); Lindsay 1912: 266; _PMSB_ 297 (§21). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/35 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/35 25 2 10 4 77 England Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:35:08.000000Z 35 78 Canterbury Certainly 51°16'40.4"N 1°05'18.4"E coordinates for Saint Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury 51.277889 1.088444 77 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 35 12 Corpus Christi Cambridge 2 12 https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/mt087kd8953 36 MS 45-1980 Whole MS (154 fols) IX ex. 876 900 Bradfer-Lawrence Deposit, BL 1 - _Capitulare euangeliorum anni circuli_, incomplete (1r-12v) - Fragment of Jerome's letter _Novum opus_ addressed to Pope Damasus (13r-v) - Blank folio (14) - Depiction of Christ or St Jerome, surrounded by the four Evangelists (14v) - Canon tables (15r-21v) - Depiction of Saint Matthew (22r) - Preface to Matthew's Gospel (22v-23r) - Gospel of Matthew (23v-62r) - Preface to Mark's Gospel (62v-63r) - Depiction of Saint Mark (63v) - Gospel of Mark (64r-86v) - Depiction of the Betrayal and Arrest of Christ (83v) - Preface to Luke's Gospel (86v-88r) - Depiction of Saint Luke (87r) - Gospel of Luke (88v-127v) - Depiction of the Crucifixion (125r) - Preface to John's Gospel (127v-129r) - Depiction of Saint John (128r) - Capitula of John's Gospel (129r-v) - Gospel of John, incomplete (130r-154v). 0 0 This is the famous illuminated Gospel from the Bradfer-Lawrence collection, which must have been in England since c. AD 1000, as shown by Latin and Old English glosses certainly added in an Anglo-Saxon centre. The tentative attribution to the area of Dol—mentioned by Bischoff (_Kat._ §821), Deuffic (_PMSB_ 296; _ILLB_ In9, p. 21), and other scholars—appears to be based on a guess by Francis Wormald, who suggested that this MS may have been one of the Breton books offered to King Athelstan, who 'was in correspondence with Radbodno, Prior of St Samson's at Dol' (_EBGB_ 12; cf. also _OHLP_ 256). However, there does not seem to be much evidence to support this claim. The generic attribution to a Breton scriptorium has better chances of being correct, in view of the iconographical links with other Breton MSS identified and discussed by Wormald and Alexander throughout _EBGB_; nonetheless, as Wormald himself pointed out, we cannot exclude that this MS was instead written in a centre of the Loire Valley in contact with Brittany, the abbey of Fleury being of course the most obvious alternative possibility (_EBGB_ 11; cf. also Nordenfalk 1978 and Simpson (McKee) 1999: 283–4 for further details). It should also be mentioned that O'Reilly (1994: 217–22) drew attention to some interesting analogies between the iconography of this MS and the Book of Kells, concluding that 'the very rare survival of pictures within the Gospel text in Kells and the Bradfer-Lawrence book testifies to two independent adaptations of a shared inheritance of an Early Christian tradition of luxury book production, rather than suggesting that the continental artist took the concept of textual illustration from a peculiarly insular tradition' (O'Reilly 1994: 222). 821 _ASM_ 123 (§119); _EBGB_, _passim_; Fleuriot 1983: 104; Guillotel 1985: 29–30; _ILLB_ In9; Kitzinger 2013b: 29, 35–6; _L&S_ §964; Lapidge 1992: 100, n. 24; McGurk 1987: 166, n. 2, 175, n. 46; Nordenfalk 1978; _OHLP_ 256; O'Reilly 1994: 217–22; _PMSB_ 296 (§18); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 283–4; Smith 1992: 170. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/36 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/36 1 79 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:12:54.000000Z 36 80 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:36:10.000000Z 36 81 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 80 3 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 36 13 Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 22 37 MS 144/194 Whole MS (43 fols) X 1/2 901 950 Canterbury (Saint Augustine's Abbey) - Remigius of Auxerre (?), Scholia on Sedulius's poetry (pp. 1-73) - Remigius of Auxerre (?), Scholia on the _Disticha Catonis_ (74-75) - Anonymous sermon on fasting written on a vellum slip (76-77) The MS alson contains (pp. 78-86) a collection of poetry, probably added at a later stage, including: - Prudentius, _Hamartigenia_ - Hibernicus Exul, _Verba philosophiae_ - Dungal (?), _Monosticha Catonis_ (partial copy) - Venantius Fortunatus, selection of lines from _Carmina_ III, VIII, IX - Pseudo-Columbanus, _Praecepta uiuendi_ - Prudentius, _Dittochaeon_ (78-86). 0 1 This MS is mentioned by Simpson (McKee) (2012: 340, nn. 5 and 6) as one of the Breton books that reached England at an early stage (c. AD 1000). This view is probably based on brief published notes in which Bishop discussed this MS together with [Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 221](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/33). Indeed, Bishop argued that 'some features common to both MSS., including the hand of a common scribe, show that they were written in the same continental scriptorium' (Bishop 1955: 187); furthermore, Bishop (1955: 189) concluded that 'indications of strong insular influence in a not remote past are confirmed by the remarkable hand of the third scribe in the Corpus MS. [= Corpus Christi 221], who is the second scribe in the Caius MS. [= Gonville and Caius 144].' Given that Bishop himself acknowledged (ibid.) that 'much of the script [of these two MSS] belongs to a type of rapid, sloping, informal minuscule which is not easily dated or placed', an origin in Brittany in the first half of the tenth century certainly remains a possibility, but we cannot exclude that our MS was rather written in England, perhaps at Canterbury, around the second half of the same century (the latter does seem to be the majority view; for example, in Lapidge 2006: 134, Gonville and Caius 144 is simply described as an 'Anglo-Saxon manuscript'). Anyway, regardless of this manuscript's origin, it is important to stress that the poetic miscellany occurring at pp. 78–86 undoubtedly represents a later addition, dating probably from the eleventh century (_ASM_ 123), by which time Gonville and Caius 144 had certainly reached England. n/a _ASM_ 123–4 (§120); Bishop 1955: 187–9; James 1907–8: I, 161–3; Lapidge 2006: 134; Simpson (McKee) 2012: 340, n. 6. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 26-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/37 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/37 21 22 82 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:13:50.000000Z 37 83 England Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:36:29.000000Z 37 84 Canterbury Possibly 51°16'40.4"N 1°05'18.4"E coordinates for Saint Augustine's abbey at Canterbury 51.277889 1.088444 83 3 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 37 14 Gonville and Caius Cambridge 3 38 MS 46 Flyleaf (fols 82-83) IX ex. or X 1/2 876 950 Bury St Edmunds Gregorian Sacramentary. 0 0 A Breton origin has been tentatively suggested for this fragment in _ASM_ 130. However, I am not aware of the evidence that stands behind this proposal. 829 _ASM_ 130 (§132.4); _ILLB_ In39; James 1905: 45–6; Rankin 2012: 497–8. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/38 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/38 4 85 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 38 86 Northern Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 38 15 Pembroke College Cambridge 3 39 MS Dd.10.16 Whole MS (112 fols) IX ex. / X 876 1000 Unknown - Pseudo-Jerome, _Expositio IV Evangeliorum_, inc. _Primitus quaerendum est omnium librorum tempus_ (1r-49r) - Passage on _uesper_ based on Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (46v-47r) - Commentary on the Missal, inc. _Ad ultimam ponuntur Seraphim_ (_De divinis officiis_) (48v-58r) - Commentary on the Apocalypse, inc. _Johannis apostolus hunc librum conscripsit_ (58r-104v) - Blank (105r-107r) - Caesarius of Arles, _Sermo_ 179 (107v-113r). 0 1 The commentary on the Apocalypse contained in this MS exhibits many strong points of contact with the section on the Apocalypse in the 'Irish Reference Bible', as has been shown by McNamara (2001). In McNamara's words (p. 219), the two texts 'are very closely related' and 'both belong to the same tradition', but 'it is also clear [...] that we are dealing with two distinct works'; moreover, McNamara argues (p. 220) that 'we must reckon with the real possibility that the Apocalypse gloss we find in the Cambridge commentary and in the _Reference bible_ originated in Britain or Ireland rather than on the Continent' (cf. also McNamara 2009: 64; the commentary on the Apocalypse from the Cambridge MS is now edited in Gryson 2013). What about the manuscript's date and origin, though? According to McNamara (2001: 208), Cambridge Dd.10.16 presents numerous insular abbreviations, but this fact is not sufficient to confirm a Breton origin. However, a careful description of the MS can be found in Ganz 2001: 256–60 (also providing a few plates), where the author suggests (at p. 256), based on a palaeographical analysis, that 'the volume was copied in the region west of Tours in the tenth century, though a ninth-century date is not impossible.' It is important to add to all this that the passage on _uesper_ based on Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (_Epistola_ I, 93–4), occurring at fols 46v-47r, matches precisely a section of the _Catechesis Celtica_ in the Breton MS [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.49](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/189) (cf. Ganz 2001: 257; McNamara 2001: 253–5). Moreover, copies of this same passage can be found in other Breton computistical MSS with prominent Irish affiliations ([Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), fol. 260v; [Lat. 7418A](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/139), fol. 25v; cf. Bisagni 2013–14: 117; Bisagni 2020a: 43–4, n. 106). Overall, a Breton origin seems probable. n/a _CLH_ 128–9 (§99); Ganz 2001: 256–60; Gryson 2013; Hardwick and Luard 1856–67: I, 414–15 (§575); McNamara 2001; McNamara 2009: 64. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/39 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/39 2 87 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:59:03.000000Z 39 16 University Library Cambridge 1 40 MS Gg.5.35 Whole MS (454 fols) XI med. 1025 1075 Canterbury (Saint Augustine's Abbey) The contents of this large codex include: - Juvencus, _Evangeliorum libri_ (1r-52v) - Sedulius, _Carmen Paschale_ and other poems (53r-84r) - Arator, _Historia Apostolica_ and other poems (84v-126r) - Prosper, _Epigrammata_ (126v-147v) - Prudentius, _Psychomachia_ and _Dittochaeon_ (148r-166v) - Lactantius, _De ave Phoenice_ (167r-169v) - Boethius, _De consolatione Philosophiae_ (170r-209v) - Rhabanus Maurus, _De laudibus sancte crucis_ (209v-262r) - Hucbald of St Amand, _De harmonica institutione_ (263r-276r) - Aldhelm, _De virginitate_ (280r-326v) - Milo, _De sobrietate_ (327r-361v) - Lapidary poem (362r) - Hymn on All Saints, inc. _Aula superna poli reboet modulamine dulci_ (362v-363r) - Abbo of St Germain, _Bella Parisiacae urbis_ (book III only) (363v-365r) - Various hymns and poems (365v-369v) - _Aenigmata_ by Eusebius, Tatwine, Boniface, Symposius, Aldhelm and Bede (370r-377v, 382r-384v, 389r-406v, 418v) - Pseudo-Alcuin, two _specula principum_ (378r-380v) - _Versus cuiusdam Scoti de alfabeto_ (381r-v) - Hymn _Sancte sator legis lator suffragator largus dator_ (388v) - Alcuin's Epitaph (388v) - _Epistula_ and _Disticha Catonis_ (407r-412r) - Pseudo-Columbanus, _Praecepta vivendi_ (412v-415v) - Bede, _Versus de die iudicii_ (416r-418r) - Oswald of Ramsey 'On composing verse' (419r) - Hymn _Terrigene bene nunc laudent ut condecet almum_ (419v) - Hisperic poem _Rubisca_ (419v-420r) - Hisperic poem _Adelphus Adelpha Meter_ (420r-v) - Greek alphabet, _Incipit numerus grecorum ab uno usque ad millenarium_ (420v) - Greek prayers and other religious poems (420v-422r, 423r-v) - Medical riddle and verses, and a medical tract (422v-423r, 425v-431v, 444v-446v) - _Bibliotheca magnifica de sapientia_, inc. _Me sine matre pater genuit pariente puellam_ (423v-425r) - The so-called 'Cambridge Songs' and other miscellaneous poems (432r-444r). 1 1 This is a large and complex English manuscript with an extensive associated bibliography (see especially Rigg and Wieland 1975 for an excellent overall description, although when that article was written the Brittonic glosses had not yet been identified), and only some of the most relevant points can be addressed here. For our purpose, the most interesting aspect of this MS is the fact that it contains copies of two rare Hisperic poem of possible Irish or Breton origin: _Rubisca_ and _Adelphus Adelpha Meter_, both of which are accompanied by Latin as well as Brittonic glosses. The former text only carries one vernacular gloss on fol. 420r, where the word _anficuruo_ is glosses _circum aincrum_ (Herren 1987: 20, 160); as has been shown by Lambert (1989: 88), the word _aincrum_ is actually a scribal error for _amcrum_, a perfect calque on the Hisperic term _anficuruo_, which must mean 'curved round' (cf. Herren 1987: 100–1). As a consequence, this gloss shows that the scribe of the Cambridge MS copied the poem _Rubisca_ from an exemplar that already contained the Brittonic word in question—a word which, clearly, he could not understand (note that the other copy of _Rubisca_, i.e. Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, MS 2410, does not contain Brittonic glosses). On the other hand, there are no vernacular glosses to the poem _Adelphus Adelpha Meter_, although we must consider that the other extant copy of this poem—[Saint-Omer, BM, MS 666](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/210), fols 43r-v—does contain no less than thirteen Brittonic glosses. Now, given that the Cambridge MS was certainly written in an English scriptorium (most likely in St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury, possibly 'shortly after the Norman occupation', as suggested in Herren 1974b: 71), how can we be sure that the Brittonic gloss _amcrum_ is specifically Old Breton, and not Old Cornish? After all, these two languages were basically undistinguishable in the Early Middle Ages. The answer is a probabilistic one; in particular, we must consider that a strong Breton interest in Hisperic literature is confirmed by (1) the existence of Breton copies of the _Hisperica Famina_ (cf. Herren 1974a: 7–10), and by (2) the composition of Hisperic texts on the part of some Breton literati (cf. e.g. Lemoine 1988; 1995). Moreover, the vernacular glosses on _Adelphus Adelpha Meter_ that occur in the Saint-Omer MS were either composed by a Breton scholar working at Saint-Bertin in the tenth century or were copied there from a Breton exemplar (for some early links between Brittany and Saint-Bertin, see Ugé 2005: 20–4); in the latter case, some vernacular glosses might theoretically have been present in the exemplar from which the poem was copied unto the Cambridge MS but could have been deliberately omitted by the English scribe, who did not understand them and therefore found them irrelevant. In view of these elements, positing a Breton exemplar for the Hisperic texts in Cambridge Gg.5.35 seems to be the simplest solution, although admittedly it is difficult to tell whether _both_ of these texts were copied from a single Breton exemplar, or rather from distinct exemplars—certainly Breton in the case of _Rubisca_, but only _possibly_ Breton in the case of _Adelphus Adelpha Meter_ (cf. Herren 1987: 22). Lapidge has argued that the two above-mentioned Hisperic texts may have been composed in Brittany and then brought from there to England by the grammarian Israel—who may well have been Breton—during the first half of the tenth century (Lapidge 1992: 104–10, 113; for the controversial issue of Israel's nationality and biography, see Deuffic 2008: 123–4; Cinato 2020: 250–6). For the Old English glosses in this MS, cf. Ker 1957: 21–2 (§16). n/a _ASM_ 25–6 (§12); Bauer 2008: 133 (erroneously ascribing the Old Breton gloss _medot_ to this MS); Cinato 2020: 260 (n. 40), 261–2; _DGVB_ 5; Hardwick and Luard 1856–67: III, 201–5 (§1567); Herren 1974b: 71–2; Herren 1987: 18–23, 160; Jenkinson 1908: xxxvi–xxxviii; Ker 1957: 21–2 (§16); Lambert 1989: 88; Lambert 2018: 40; Lapidge 1992: 104–8; Lemoine 2010: 221; _L&S_ §897; _OHLP_ 881; Rigg and Wieland 1975; Schrijver 2011: 11; [_The Calendar and the Cloister_](https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/ms-17/apparatus.php?page=related_manuscripts); Wieland 1983. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/40 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/40 16 28 29 23 21 22 88 England Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:37:19.000000Z 40 89 Canterbury Certainly 51°16'40.4"N 1°05'18.4"E coordinates for Saint Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury 51.277889 1.088444 88 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 40 16 University Library Cambridge 2 11 https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-00005-00035/13 41 MS 21 (28) Whole MS (114 fols) IX 2/2 851 900 Saint-Père-en-Vallée (near Chartres) - Cassian, _Collationes_ (7v-108v) - Bede, _Historia Ecclesiastica_ (fragments) (1r-6v?, 109r-111r?) - Brief poem inc. _Dicere plus, fecisse minus taxatur honestum_ (108v) - Miscellaneous excerpts (111v-114r) - Charter from Saint-Père-en-Vallée (near Chartres) (114v). 0 0 This MS, destroyed in 1944, was taken by Deuffic (_PMSB_ 297) from an unpublished list of MSS prepared by Léon Fleuriot (cf. _PMSB_ 290). The dating to the second half of the ninth century is the one indicated by Deuffic, while the website _A la recherche des manuscrits de Chartres_ gives a more generic dating s. IX-X. A colophon that occurred at fol. 108v indicated the name of the scribe: _Droardus_. I am not aware of any explicit evidence indicating that this MS was written in Brittany (apart perhaps from the presence of some 'Breton' neumatic notation?), and I do not know why Fleuriot included it in his list. The origin of this MS remains unknown. 874 [_A la recherche des manuscrits de Chartres_](https://www.manuscrits-de-chartres.fr/fr/manuscrits/chartres-bm-ms-21); Benoît-Castell and Huglo 1954: 174; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D17010078 ); CGM 11: 8–9; _PMSB_ 297 (§22). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/41 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/41 17 19 90 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 41 91 Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 41 17 BM Chartres 3 16 https://www.manuscrits-de-chartres.fr/fr/manuscrits/chartres-bm-ms-21 Not on-line (last checked 26/03/2020). A low-resolution facsimile of a single folio (fol. 7r) can be seen at 42 MS 47 (40) 1st C.U. (69 fols) X 901 1000 Saint-Père-en-Vallée (near Chartres) - Various prayers (1-2) - _Antiphonale Missarum Sancti Gregorii_ (3r-69v) - _Ordo in consecratione chrismatis_ (70-85 = 2nd C.U., added in the 12th century, probably at Chartres). 0 0 This MS, destroyed in 1944, contains a copy of the Gregorian Antiphonary. The great importance of this MS is due to its omnipresent neumatic notation, which has been studied extensively (cf. Hiley 1992 for a good overview), and which, in the opinion of Benoît-Castelli and Huglo (1954), allows to place the writing of Chartres 47 in the region of Rennes (although a tentative association with the area of Redon is proposed in Orchard 2002: 127). Moreover, according to Huglo (1963: 66–8), this MS was written in the same scriptorium from which the fragment of a gradual preserved in [Valenciennes, BM, 407](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/220) also originated. Deuffic (2011: 72–3; _ILLB_ In 30, pp. 93–4, n. 19) explains the Chartres provenance of this MS in the context of the documented links between Chartres, Fleury and Brittany in the tenth and eleventh centuries. However, more recently, Rankin has expressed more cautious views on the place of origin of this MS; thus, for example, in Rankin 2018: 169 (cf. also the list on p. 101), the author states that Chartres 47 was written 'somewhere in western/central France circa 900' (cf. also Rankin 2018: 99, n. 75), in spite of its prominently 'Breton' notation, for whose definition see Rankin 2018: 95–102, and esp. p. 99: 'It is difficult to associate this script with an area defined more narrowly than western Francia: after the ninth century the use of this script became restricted to Brittany, but during the ninth century it was written much more widely. [...] secure information about exactly where this script was being written in the ninth century is difficult to find. Nevertheless, the extremely pronounced geographical spread of the extant early examples suggests that this should not be treated simply as a 'regional' script, at least not in the ninth and early tenth centuries.' As a consequence, Chartres 47 _might_ have been written in a Breton scriptorium, but there does not seem to be any sure proof of that as yet. n/a [_A la recherche des manuscrits de Chartres_](https://www.manuscrits-de-chartres.fr/fr/manuscrits/chartres-bm-ms-47); Benoît-Castelli and Huglo 1954; [__CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D17010244); _CGM_ 11: 23–4; Deuffic 2011: 72–3; Hiley 1992; Huglo 1963: 54, 66–8; Huglo 1981: 13, 19, 26, 29, 49; _ILLB_ In30; Ménager 1912; Orchard 2002: 127; _PMSB_ 297 (§23); Rankin 2018: _passim_ (esp. p. 99, n. 76; p. 169). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/42 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/42 4 92 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:39:23.000000Z 42 93 Redon Possibly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 92 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 42 94 Rennes Possibly 48°06'46.4"N 1°41'10.8"W coordinates for Rennes 48.112889 -1.686333 92 3 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 42 95 Western Francia Possibly 4 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:39:23.000000Z 42 17 BM Chartres 3 16 https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md67wm11b44s 43 MS 98 (77) Fragment (fols 2r-3v, 5v, 167r-168v) X 2/2 or XI 1/2 951 1050 Notre-Dame de Chartres The whole MS (168 fols) contained: - Drawings representing the plan of unidentified churches (2r, 168v) - Nennius, _Historia Brittonum_ (the fragment in question here) (2v-3v, 5v, 167r-168r) - Isidore, various excerpts (4v-5r) - Rhabanus Maurus, _Commentarii in Matthaeum_ (6r-165r) - Augustine, _Sermo_ 307, _De passione sancti Iohannis Baptistae_ (165v-166v). 0 1 Unfortunately, only burned fragments of this MS have survived the bombing of the 26th of June 1944. While the bulk of this MS, which contains Rhabanus Maurus's commentary on Matthew's Gospel, was probably written at Tours in the second half of the ninth century (Rand 1929: I, 161), the few folios that contain sections from Nennius's _Historia Brittonum_ were certainly written in Brittany at a somewhat later stage, perhaps in the late tenth or early eleventh century (cf. Dumville 1975: 303–5). It is worth noting in particular the occurrence of the rare abbreviation sign _Ɔ-C_ for _contra_ (e.g. at fol. 2v), which may well be a specifically Breton scribal diagnostic feature (cf. Lindsay 1912: 266; Dumville 1975: 311–12; Lemoine 2008: 190–1). The Chartres fragment preserves what appears to be a distinctive (Irish?) recension of the _Historia Brittonum_, containing (fols 3r-3v) an interesting mention of Slébéne, abbot of Iona from AD 752/3 until his death in 767: _sicut <S>libine abas Iæ in Ripum ciuitate inuenit uel reperit_ (cf. Anscombe 1897; Wade-Evans 1937: 76–8; Grosjean 1960: 381–9; Dumville 1975: 319–20). Slébéne's visit to Ripon may have taken place in AD 753, as suggested in Ó Cróinín 1983: 84–5 (cf. also Dumville 1975: 322), where it is also argued that the chronological details contained in this passage of the Chartres fragment indicate that 'the author of the original text was using the Irish method of dating, for the ferial and lunar notation is that of the Irish annals. Moreover, the Chartres note suggests an active interest on Slébíne's part in matters chronological and in the salient events of history.' I should finally point out that the script of this fragment (for a useful description of which see Dumville 1975: 304–5, 310–14) and its rather disorderly layout are somewhat similar to those of the computistical collection in the tenth-century MS [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), which contains the _Computus Hibernicus Parisinus_ of AD 754. 889 [_A la recherche des manuscrits de Chartres_](https://www.manuscrits-de-chartres.fr/fr/manuscrits/chartres-bm-ms-98); Anscombe 1897; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D17010564); _CGM_ 11: 51; Dumville 1975: esp. 300–14; Dumville 2005: 62; Grosjean 1960: 381–9; [Fitzpatrick-Matthews, _Historia Brittonum_](http://www.historiabrittonum.net/); Ó Cróinín 1983: 84–5; _PMSB_ 298 (§24, wrongly indicating the shelfmark as '99 (77)'); Wade-Evans 1937. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/43 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/43 19 2 96 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 43 17 BM Chartres 7 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=16881 Images of the folios containing the fragment of the _Historia Brittonum_ are available at 44 MS 110 (58) 2nd C.U. (fols 40r-88v) X 901 1000 Saint-Père-en-Vallée (near Chartres) The contents of this MS, now largely destroyed, included: - Biographical notice on Sedulius (_Ars Sedulii_) (40r) - Sedulius, _Carmen Paschale_ (fols?) - _Deprecatio Sedulii retoris_ (86v) - _Capitula Sedulii_ (87v) - Sedulius, _A solis ortus cardine_, with neumes (88). 0 0 Only burned fragments of this MS have survived the bombing of the 26th of June 1944. The presence of 'Breton' neumes on fol. 88r was noted in Benoît-Castelli and Huglo 1954: 174 (cf. also Huglo 1964: 68), but this is certainly not enough to claim a Breton origin for this MS (cf. _PMSB_ 298: 'origine bretonne?'), especially in view of Rankin's recent considerations on Breton neumes (see the entry for [Chartres, BM, MS 47](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/42) in the present Handlist). Perhaps the MS was rather written in the area of Chartres? n/a [_A la recherche des manuscrits de Chartres_](https://www.manuscrits-de-chartres.fr/fr/manuscrits/chartres-bm-ms-110); Benoît-Castelli and Huglo 1954: 174; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D17010651); _CGM_ 11: 58–60; Deuffic 2011: 73; _PMSB_ 298 (§25); Springer 1995: 209. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/44 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/44 21 97 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 44 98 (Western) Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 44 17 BM Chartres 3 16 https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md66vx023z8s 45 MS 14 Whole MS (215 fols) IX 2/2 851 900 Unknown - Portrait of Saint Jerome (1v) - Prefatory materials to the four Gospels (2r-5v) - Prefatory materias, Argumentum and Capitula for Matthew's Gospel (5v-8r) - Canon tables (9v-15r) - Portrait of Mary and Saint John the Evangelist (15v) - Gospel of Matthew (16r-65v) - Argumentum and Capitula for Mark's Gospel (66r-67r) - Portrait of Saint Mark (67v) - Gospel of Mark (68r-99v) - Argumentum and Capitula for Luke's Gospel (100v-104r) - Portrait of Saint Luke (104v) - Gospel of Luke (105r-158r) - Argumentum and Capitula for John's Gospel (158v-160r) - Portrait of Saint John the Evangelist (160v) - Gospel of John (161r-200r) - _Capitulare Evangeliorum_ (202r-215r). 0 0 According to Bischoff (_Kat._ §1871), the iconography of this important Gospel-book presents Breton features and belongs to the 'Saint-Amand-Schule', but 'unter Beteiligung eines bretonischen Buchmalers.' I am not aware of any other specific Breton connections in relation to this MS. 1871 [_CEEC_](http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/ceec-cgi/kleioc/0010/exec/katl/%22kn28-0014%22); Fleuriot 1983: 105; _PMSB_ 298 (§26; mention only); Von Euw 1989: 47–9. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/45 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/45 1 99 Northern Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:40:02.000000Z 45 100 Saint-Amand Possibly 50°26'56.4"N 3°25'45.9"E coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Amand 50.449000 3.429417 99 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 45 18 Dombibliothek Cologne 2 17 http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/ceec-cgi/kleioc/0010/exec/pagemed/%22kn28-0014_001.jpg%22/segment/%22body%22 46 MS F.M. 1 Fragment (single folio) X med. 925 975 - England - Saint Martin-in-the-Fields - Collection of Thomas Phillipps (1861). Office lectionary. 0 0 A tentative attribution to Brittany is suggested in _ASM_ 579 (§809.8). It is also worth citing Dumville's comments on this fragment: 'In general, the script of the Columbia leaf appears to be Continental and, specifically, Breton. It was no doubt part of a book imported into England in the tenth century. Such Insular features as it may be argued to contain can as well be explained by a Breton origin. Its majuscules cannot, I think, be paralleled in English manuscripts' (Dumville 1991: 44). n/a _ASM_ 579–80 (§809.8); Dumville 1991: 43–4; _ILLB_ In32. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/46 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/46 4 101 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 46 19 University of Missouri Library Columbia 3 http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta001_45 47 MS Thott 239 2o Whole MS (10 fols) AD 907-955 (probably AD 907/908) 907 955 Cluny (or a daughter-house of Cluny) - Calendar and computistical tables (incomplete, January-August only) (1r-9v) - Lunar table, added in the eleventh century (8r) - Easter tables for AD 908–955 and (in a slightly later hand) AD 956–1005 (10r-10v) - Computistical _argumentum_ containing a dating clause for AD 907 (10r). 0 0 In addition to containing the names of numerous Breton saints in its calendar, with particular emphasis on Saint Winwaloe of Landévennec (3 March, 28 April, 13 May), this fragment is especially famous for preserving (fol. 10r) an annalistic note for AD 913, mentioning the destruction of the monastery of Landévennec on the part of the Northmen (_Eodem anno destr<uctum est> monasterium sancti <Uuinua>loei a Normannis_). The Easter table on fol. 10r, written by the main hand, covers the years 908–955 (where, importantly, AD 908 is the 16th year of a 19-year cycle); moreover, a computistical _argumentum_ occurring on the same folio offers a dating clause for AD 907; this indicates that the MS was probably written at Landévennec within that chronological range, most likely in AD 907/908 (the above-mentioned annalistic entry for AD 913 could have been added by the same hand a few years later, perhaps shortly after the Viking attack). On fol. 10v, further data were added by a different hand for years 956–1005 (with corrections in yet another hand for the years from AD 970 onwards; note also that the lower part of that folio is now nearly illegible). Several secondary entries in the calendar show that this MS reached the abbey of Cluny (or, less likely, a daughter-house of Cluny) at an early stage, possibly already in the (late?) eleventh century (cf. Deuffic 1985c: 1). It should also be pointed out that the Abbonian lunar table on what is now fol. 8r was probably added at a later stage, probably sometime in the eleventh century (whether in Brittany or at Cluny is hard to tell): in all likelihood, this folio was originally the first recto of the whole MS, so that it was initially left blank in order to serve as cover; indeed, this MS is now bound in the wrong sequence (the original sequence of the quaternion that has survived must have been 8, 9, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, while fols 1 and 10 are singletons, and their original position in the MS can no longer be determined). Remarkably, several technical features occurring throughout this calendar are normally considered by modern scholars to be innovations first introduced by Abbo of Fleury shortly before AD 1000. However, if the early tenth-century dating of this fragment carries conviction, then Abbo must have borrowed at least some of those features from computistical materials that reached Fleury from Brittany in the course of the tenth century. Clearly, this matter will require detailed investigation. n/a Deuffic 1985a: 272–4; Deuffic 1985c (with facsimile); Duine 1906: 137–41; _ILLB_ Q228; Kerlouégan 1982b: 317; _L&S_ §973; Lebecq 2015b: 159; _PMSB_ 298 (§27); Smith 1992: 175 (n. 120). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/47 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/47 30 6 7 102 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:41:05.000000Z 47 103 Landévennec Certainly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 102 2 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 47 20 Det Kongelige Bibliothek Copenhagen 6 7 http://www5.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/117/eng/1+recto/ 48 MS 13 Whole MS (135 fols) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Abbey of Marchiennes (Northern France) The four Gospels, preceded by prefaces and canon tables. 1 0 A detailed colophon at fol. 135r reveals that this MS was written by the two Breton scribes Luiesguethen (responsible for fols 1v–119v) and Lioscar (responsible for fols 120r–135v): _Luiesguethen istum coepit scribere librum, sed tamen Lioscar consummauit istis uilibus grammis, et ideo quicumque lectoris inque Lioscar Luiesguethen teneant fidem spem et caritatem, ut cælibem æterni regis habeant mansionem. Amen. Infrunitus est qui uituperat hoc quod non potest iterare_. This information as well as the palaeography and the decoration of this MS all concur to indicate that an origin in Brittany is most likely. According to Guillotel (1985: 30), the text of the Gospels in this MS is particularly close to that of [Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 45-1980](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/36) ('ces deux volumes appartiendraient à un même groupe quant à la transmission des textes évangéliques'), whereas the decoration of these two codices differs. Unfortunately, it is not possible to narrow down the origin of this MS to any specific foundation in Brittany, although Guillotel (1985: 32) is surely right in pointing out that this Gospel-book was written in a scriptorium 'aux ambitions assez nettes et qui comptait au moins deux copistes voire plus.' As a final note, it should be mentioned that Fleuriot was not been able to see this MS at the time when he prepared his dictionary of Old Breton (cf. _DGVB_ 7), although he was aware of the existence of the colophon mentioning the two Breton scribes. 1031 Bénédictins du Bouveret 1965–82: IV, 92 (§12833); [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D06A10035); _CGM_ 6 (series in quarto): 10–11; Deuffic 2008: 128 (n. 220); _DGVB_ 7; Fleuriot 1983: 105 (erroneously listing this MS as 'Douai, ms 12', which is a late eighth-century Gospel-book from Saint-Amand); Guillotel 1985: 30–3, 35, ; _ILLB_ In10; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/2036/5647); Lemoine 2008: 192–3; McGurk 1987: 175, n. 45; _OHLP_ 256; _PMSB_ 298 (§28). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/48 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/48 1 104 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:51.000000Z 48 21 BM Douai 1 8 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/resultRecherche/resultRecherche.php?COMPOSITION_ID=5437 Several images are available at 49 MS 68 Whole MS (143 fols) XI ex. / XII 1076 1200 Abbey of Lyre (Normandy) The four Gospels. 0 0 Deuffic's inclusion of this MS in his _PMSB_ (299, §29) depends on an unpublished list prepared by Léon Fleuriot (cf. _PMSB_ 290). As far as I can see, the only potential connection with Brittany is the occurrence of the name _Winnocus_ in a note at fol. 2r: _Reliquie sancti Petri apostoli, unus dens. He reliquie fuerunt archiepiscopi Alnoldi, et ipse unciam auri Rome emit. Ego vero Winnocus, servus servorum Xpisti, post obitum eiusdem episcopi Godrico de tiam cleroque [?] ipsius cenobii manu mea inde precium dedi, scilicet medietatem uncie auri; habet vero simul de sepulcro Xpisti_ (cited from Guéry 1917: 355). n/a [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D08140403); _CGM_ 2: 439–40; Fleuriot 1983: 105; Guéry 1917: 355; _PMSB_ 299 (§29) 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/49 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/49 1 105 Unknown Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 49 22 BM Evreux 4 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=7851 Two images are available at 50 3548A Fragment X in. 901 925 Exeter (s. XI 2/2?) Missal. 0 0 A possible origin in Northern Francia or Brittany is indicated in _ASM_ 204 (§258.8). n/a _ASM_ 204 (§258.8); _ILLB_ In33. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/50 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/50 4 106 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 50 107 Northern Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 50 23 Cathedral Library Exeter 3 51 MS Ashburnham 82 Tenth-century additions at fols 16v-17r, 63r X 901 1000 Fleury - Insular texts on brontology (16v-17r) - _Kalendae ianuariae_ (63r). 0 0 This MS is one of two _disiecta membra_ of a single original codex, the other _membrum_ being Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 116, fols 63–105. The original codex was probably written in a Frankish scriptorium in or near the Loire Valley in the second or third third of the ninth century; it contains a variety of theological, catechistic and penitential texts (cf. Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 114–18). However, as far as the section preserved in Florence is concerned, Bischoff (_Kat._ §3692) pointed out that fols 16v-17r and 63r contain prognostic texts that were added during the tenth century (or in the eleventh century, according to Juste and Chiu 2013: 92) by a particularly rough hand possibly betraying Breton influence ('... von einer ungewöhnlich groben (bretonisch beeinflußten?) H[an]d s. X in barbarischem Latein Prognostica'). Interestingly, the texts on brontology (i.e. divination by thunder) added at fols 16v-17r, which can also be found copied together in Paris, BnF, Lat. 7299A (written at Saint-Martial of Limoges in the late eleventh century), may have come from England (Juste and Chiu 2013: 92). 3692 Cesario 2012; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0107 ); Juste and Chiu 2013: 92; _LF_ BF262; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 114–18. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/51 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/51 5 108 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:42:31.000000Z 51 109 Orléans Possibly 47°54'06.6"N 1°54'37.9"E coordinates for Orléans 47.901833 1.910528 108 2 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 51 110 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 108 3 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 51 24 Biblioteca Laurenziana Florence 18 52 MS Memb. I 147 Fragment (3 fols) IX 2/4 826 850 Unknown Isidore, _Etymologiae_ (fragment). 1 0 This MS, which preserves three Old Breton glosses, is one of several _disiecta membra_ from a single codex that contained a copy of Isidore's _Etymologiae_. Other sections of the original manuscript survive under the following modern shelfmarks: [Hannover, Kestner-Museum, MS 3958](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/53); [New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS G. 28](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/92); [Paderborn, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek, Fragm. 10](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/121); [Weimar, Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Hardenberg-Sammlung. 12a and 14a](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/223); [Herdringen, Archiv der Freiherrn von Fürstenberg, Fragm. _sine numero_](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/54) (see the relevant entries for these MSS in the present Handlist). Most of these fragments contain Old Breton glosses, and Bischoff (_Kat._ §1424) had no hesitation in ascribing the original codex to Brittany, presumably also on the basis of the palaeographical evidence. 1424 Bauer 2008: 133–4; _DGVB_ 6; Falmagne and Deitz 2009: I, 179 (n. 389); Fleuriot 1979: 198; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0117 ); Lambert 1999: 188; Lambert 2018: 39; Lemoine 1985: 289; _PMSB_ 299 (§30); Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 104); Thurneysen and Williams 1938: 305–6. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/52 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/52 31 17 111 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:01:20.000000Z 52 25 Forschungsbibliothek Gotha 1 53 MS 3958 (Cul. I 45 (366)) Fragment (1 fol.) IX 2/4 826 850 Unknown Isidore, _Etymologiae_ (fragment). 0 0 This MS is one of several _disiecta membra_ from a single codex that contained a copy of Isidore's _Etymologiae_; for further details, see the entry for [Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, MS Memb. I 147](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/52). This fragment, unlike the others, does not contain any Old Breton glosses. 1424 Fleuriot 1979: 198–9; Härtel 1999: 89–90; Lambert 2018: 40; _PMSB_ 299 (§31). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/53 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/53 31 17 112 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:01:32.000000Z 53 26 Kestner-Museum Hannover 1 54 MS s.n. Fragment (1 half-folio) IX 2/4 826 850 Unknown Isidore, _Etymologiae_ (fragment). 1 0 This MS, which preserves two Old Breton glosses, is one of several _disiecta membra_ from a single codex that contained a copy of Isidore's _Etymologiae_; for further details, see the entry for [Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, MS Memb. I 147](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/52). 1424 Fleuriot 1979: 198; Lambert 2018: 40; _PMSB_ 299 (§32). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/54 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/54 31 17 113 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:01:44.000000Z 54 27 Archiv der Freiherrn von Fürstenberg Herdringen 1 55 MS 91 (LX) Whole MS (157 fols) XI 1001 1100 Cathedral of Ivrea? Gradual, Tropary, Sequentiary, Processional. 0 0 This MS contains musical notation of the 'Breton' type, but it was written in Northern Italy (cf. Downey 1998: 187). According to Huglo (1963: 72), the exemplar must have been Breton. However, in light of Rankin's recent considerations about the so-called 'Breton' notation (see the entry for [Chartres, BM, 47](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/42) in the present Handlist), this conclusion is by no means certain. n/a Deuffic 2011: 79; Downey 1998; Huglo 1963: 71–2. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/55 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/55 4 114 Northern Italy Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:42:52.000000Z 55 115 Pavia Possibly 45°11'04.6"N 9°09'12.3"E coordinates for Pavia 45.184611 9.153417 114 2 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 55 28 Biblioteca Capitolare Ivrea 12 16 56 MS Aug.perg.211 Whole MS (169 fols) IX 2/2 851 900 Reichenau - Gospel of Matthew (acephalous) (1r-42r) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (42r-78r) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and capitula (78r-137v) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (incomplete) (137v-169v). 0 0 This Gospel-book was included by Fischer in his Breton group, with the siglum 'Bk' (cf. Simpson (McKee) 1999: 285, 290), and this geographical attribution was accepted by Bischoff (_Kat._ §1702). Judging from the script, this view seems plausible; however, it can only be confirmed (or dismissed) through a detailed textual and palaeographical analysis. 1702 Holder 1970: 485–6; _ILLB_ In11; Lemoine 2001: 268 (n. 17); Lemoine 2008: 194; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 285, 290. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/56 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/56 1 116 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:02:08.000000Z 56 29 Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe 3 https://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/id/3294950 57 MS 422 1st C.U. (fols 1-72) IX 1/3 (c. AD 820-830?) 801 833 Notre-Dame of Laon - Isidore, _De natura rerum_ (1r-22v) - Cosmological/computistical compilation titled _In nomine Dei summi incipit de astronomia_ (22v-70v) - Various blessings and liturgical formulas (71r-72r) - Added Carthaginian canons (72r-v, continuing on fol. 73r, which belongs to the 2nd C.U.: the two units were probably bound together at an early stage, possibly already during the ninth century). 0 1 Although the specific scriptorium where this ninth-century MS was written remains unidentified, different kinds of evidence appear to converge on Northern Francia—possibly the area of Corbie, Cambrai or Péronne (cf. Bisagni, forthcoming; for an earlier ascription to the Loire Valley, cf. Obrist 1996: 102). As for the date, Bischoff (_Kat._ §2114) opted for a fairly broad chronological range between the first and the second quarter of the ninth century, but the dating c. AD 820–830, proposed by several scholars (cf. Dell'Era 1979: 271, 282; Obrist 2002: 345; Borst 2006: I, 238; Blume, Haffner and Metzger 2012–16: I, 274), seems plausible. The compilation _De astronomia_ contains many textual materials of clear Irish origin, especially as far as the chapters on the divisions of time are concerned (these sections even contain three embedded words in Old Irish). These Irish materials were probably excerpted from an Irish computistical tract that can be described as an augmented version of the Hiberno-Latin _De divisionibus temporum_, or _DDT_ (in this context it should also be noted that a further witness of the same augmented recension, quite heavily re-elaborated and possibly epitomised towards the end of the eighth century, can be found at fols 15r–26v of the important computistical codex Cologne, Dombibliothek, 83-II, written at Cologne between AD 798 and 805). The Irish _DDT auctus_ of Laon 422 shares many unique textual parallels with the _Computus Hibernicus Parisinus_ of AD 754, long sections of which have survived only in two MSS with prominent Breton affiliations: [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), copied from a Breton exemplar, and [Angers, BM, MS 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8), written in Brittany (for the _Computus Hibernicus_ of 754, see Bisagni 2013–14; Bisagni 2019: 247–56; Warntjes 2013–14). This fact raises the theoretical possibility that at least some of the contents of the compilation _De astronomia_ ultimately derived from Irish _computistica_ transmitted through Brittany during the second half of the eighth century. However, it is also possible (and perhaps more likely) that the Irish texts in question reached Northern Francia first, being transmitted to the Loire Valley and Brittany only at a later stage (perhaps as late as the second half of the ninth century). The whole question is still _sub iudice_, but it should be noted that an edition and a study of the Irish chapters of _De astronomia_ are currently being prepared by Ms Paula Harrison (NUI Galway) in the context of the IrCaBriTT project. 2114 [Dobcheva, _Aratea-Digital_](https://aratea-digital.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/desc__laon_bm_422.html); Bisagni 2019: 264–70; Bisagni 2020a: 30–4; Bisagni, forthcoming; Blume, Haffner and Metzger 2012–16: I, 274–9; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc112249k/cN65934); Borst 2006: I, 238–9; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D01021414); Contreni 1978: 31 (n. 4), 47–8; Dell'Era 1979; Fontaine 1960: 37; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0138 ); _LCRC_ 57–8; 116–17; _MPF_ §95; Obrist 1996: 102, 127; Obrist 1997: 66; Obrist 2002: _passim_, esp. 343–5; Santoni 2017. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 29-11-2022 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/57 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/57 6 8 4 20 117 Northern Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:46:41.000000Z 57 118 Corbie Possibly 49°54'32.0"N 2°30'35.4"E coordinates for Corbie 49.908889 2.509833 117 2 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 57 119 Cambrai Possibly 50°10'19.8"N 3°14'00.1"E coordinates for Cambrai 50.172167 3.233361 117 3 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 57 120 Péronne Possibly 49°55'43.9"N 2°56'06.8"E coordinates for Péronne 49.928861 2.935222 117 4 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 57 30 BM Laon 2 12 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8492138z 58 MS BPL 25 {A} Fragment (fols 1, 42-43) IX 3/4 851 875 Bought in France by Franciscus Nansius (a 16th-century humanist) Antiphonary (fragment). 0 0 Fols 1 and 42–43 of this MS come from an antiphonary with Breton musical notation. However, this is not enough to ascribe this fragment to a Breton scriptorium with sufficient certainty: in fact, the MS may have been written basically anywhere west of Tours (cf. Rankin 2018: 99). Indeed, Bischoff (_Kat._ §2135) cautiously attributes it to 'vielleicht Nordwestfrankreich.' 2135 Deuffic 2011: 71; Huglo 1963: 67; _ILLB_ In1; _PMSB_ 300 (§36); Rankin 2018: 99, 101, 238–9. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 01-04-2020 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/58 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/58 4 121 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 58 122 North-Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 58 31 Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 3 16 https://socrates.leidenuniv.nl/view/item/1617684?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=876eb14afc9dd0b0f5eb&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0#page/1/mode/1up 59 MS BPL 25 {B} Fols 2-41 XI 1001 1100 Bought in France by Franciscus Nansius (a 16th-century humanist) - Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's _Peri Hermeneias_ (2r-38r) - Apuleius, _Peri Hermeneias_ (38r-41v). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §2135) characterises this MS as 'vielleicht bretonisch', presumably on the basis of its script. Interestingly, some of the contents are comparable to those of [Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Ph. 1 (HJ.IV.16)](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/13). 2135 Deuffic 2011: 71; _ILLB_ In1; _PMSB_ 300 (§36). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/59 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/59 23 123 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 59 31 Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 3 https://socrates.leidenuniv.nl/view/item/1617684?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=876eb14afc9dd0b0f5eb&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0#page/1/mode/1up 60 MS BPL 2507 Fragment IX 3/4 851 875 Doesburg Old Testament (fragment from 4 Kings). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §2171) did not ascribe this fragment to any specific centre, but only indicates laconically: 'unter bretonischem Einfluß (?).' This could mean that this MS was written in a scriptorium near Brittany, or by a Breton scribe working outside of his country. Lieftinck (1951: 193, n. 1) associates the script of this fragment with the scriptorium of Tours: '... une très belle calligraphie montrant l'influence de l'école de Tours [...]. Sans doute cette écriture achevée doit être assignée à un milieu très important.' 2171 Lieftinck 1951: 193 (n. 1). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/60 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/60 24 124 Near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 60 31 Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 9 19 61 MS Voss. Lat. F 13 Whole MS (70 fols) XII 1/2 1101 1150 Possibly from the 17th-century collection of Melchisédech Thévenot Orosius, _Historiae adversus paganos_. 1 0 This MS, which contains two Old Breton glosses (cf. Lambert 1989: 81–3), preserves (fol. 13r) the beginning of the same colophon also found in [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192) and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 4877](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/136). In light of the presence of this colophon and the two Old Breton glosses, and given the strong interest in Orosius's _Historiae_ among the Early Medieval Breton _literati_, a Breton origin for this MS seems possible, although the fact that one of the Old Breton glosses seems to be corrupt (as shown in Lambert 1989: 82) could actually militate against this hypothesis. In any case, in all likelihood the scribe of this MS was copying from a Breton exemplar. Interestingly, one of the vernacular glosses found here (_tricœrioc_, gl. _trigona_) is practically identical to the single Old Breton gloss occurring in [Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 160](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/19) and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 17543](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/165), two codices that may well date from the same period as Leiden Voss. Lat. F 13 (cf. Lambert 1988: 214; 1989: 81–2). n/a Lambert 1988: 215–16; Lambert 1989: 81–3; Lambert 2018: 40; Lemoine 2001: 263–4; Schrijver 2011: 10. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/61 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/61 19 17 125 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:03:03.000000Z 61 31 Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 3 11 62 MS Voss. Lat. F 24 Whole MS (111 fols) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 - Collection of P. Petavius - Collection of Queen Christina of Sweden. A complex collection of glossaries and various excerpts with significant insular (especially Anglo-Saxon) connections, and containing Old Breton, Old English and Old High German glosses: - Glossary 'Abavus' (interpolated), also containing Old Breton glosses (1r-87v) - Eucherius of Lyon, _Glossae spiritales_ (88r-89r) - Pseudo-Cicero, _Synonyma_ (89r-92r) - Excerpt from Isidore, _Etymologiae_, X (92r-100r) - Biblical glosses, inc. _De prologo Geneseo . Nenias, uanitates_ (100r-104r, 110v-111r) - Various glossaries, including glosses belonging to the 'Leiden family' (104r-108r) - Eucherius of Lyon, _Instructiones_ (108r-110v) - _Voces uariae animantium_ from Polemius Silvius, _Laterculus_ (111r) - Pseudo-Alcuin, _Disputatio regalis et nobilissimi iuvenis Pippini cum Albino scholastico_ (111r-v). 1 0 In addition to presenting a staggering amount of glosses (approximately 20,000 lemmata, according to Bremmer and Dekker 2016: 233), the simultaneous presence of glosses in Old Breton, Old English and Old High German in this one MS is undoubtedly also remarkable (for the wider context in relation to this issue, cf. Dumville 1992b: 67). Most modern scholars agree in placing the origin of this MS in the area of Tours, or in Tours itself, but views on its dating differ, ranging from the second quarter of the ninth century (e.g. Bischoff, _Kat._ §2187) to the tenth century (e.g. Steinmeyer and Sievers 1879–1922: IV, 478). The dating to c. AD 900 adopted here (IX ex. / X in.) is taken from Bremmer and Dekker 2016: 233 ('VLF 24 has been dated to around 900 and was presumably written in western Francia'). As to the specific Breton affiliation of this MS, as has been pointed out by Bremmer and Dekker (2016: 233–4) 'the presence of Old Breton glosses, as well as the underlining of a reference to Armorica, may point to Brittany as a place where it was used, but there is no clarity about its exact provenance.' For a hypothetical reconstruction of how glosses in different vernacular languages may have come to coexist in this MS, see Dumville 2005: 58. 2187 Bremmer and Dekker 2016; [_BStK Online_](https://glossen.germ-ling.uni-bamberg.de/bstk/367); _DGVB_ 5; Dumville 1992b: 67; Dumville 2005: 58; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0144 ); Ker 1957: 478 (Appendix, §17); Lapidge 1996: 165; Lemoine 1985: 289; de Meyier 1973: 49–52; Paniagua 2018: 50, 129–32, 140–1; _PMSB_ 300 (§37); Schrijver 2011: 10 (wrongly indicated with the shelfmark 'F 96 A'); Smith 1992: 172 (n. 105); Steinmeyer and Sievers 1879–1922: IV, 478–9 (§251); Vaciago 2004: 259–92. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/62 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/62 2 9 31 126 Western Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:48:00.000000Z 62 127 Tours Possibly 47°23'34.3"N 0°40'58.9"E coordinates for Tours 47.392861 0.683028 126 2 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 62 31 Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 4 20 https://database.marginalscholarship.nl/codex/COD0043 Not on-line (last checked 02/04/2020). One folio can be seen at 63 MS Voss. Lat. F 96 A Whole MS (4 fols) IX ex. or X 1/2 876 950 Fleury? - Medical remedies (in Latin only) (1r-v) - Medical remedies (in Latin and a Brittonic language) (2r) - A text combining Egyptian Days and _Regimen_ prescriptions (2v). 1 1 Also known as 'Celtic Leechbook' or 'Leiden Leechbook', this single bifolium is a most interesting but also extremely problematic MS. Let us begin with the linguistic problem. For many decades after Stokes's 1897 edition of the numerous (c. 70) Brittonic forms contained in this MS, scholars have believed this fragment to be the earliest written specimen of Old Breton; thus, Fleuriot stated what follows in his dictionary (_DGBV_ 4): 'c'est le plus ancien m[anu]s[crit] v[ieux-]breton ; il date probablement de la fin du VIIIe siècle' (at p. 18 of the same dictionary, Fleuriot argues that the MS was written at Landévennec). Bischoff's Katalog (_Kat._ §2208) likewise places the writing of this MS in Brittany, 'wohl VIII./IX. Jh. oder IX. Jh., Anfang', and, like Fleuriot, Deuffic (2008: 127) considers Leiden F 96 A as 'le plus ancien manuscrit d'origine bretonne continentale'. However, Dumville reopened the question in a lecture delivered in 1994 at Bangor (Wales), in which he stated that, on palaeographical grounds, the manuscript could not be Breton (cf. Falileyev and Owen 2005: 1; for a published trace of Dumville's view, cf. Dumville 1993: 12, n. 51). More recently, Falileyev and Owen (2005) have provided a fresh reassessment of the linguistic evidence: although the two scholars have not come to a definitive conclusion, they nonetheless affirm that 'the linguistic arguments are against the text being Welsh. The language could be Breton or Cornish' (Falileyev and Owen 2005: 85). Unfortunately, it is not possible to distinguish between Old Breton and Old Cornish on a purely linguistic basis (cf. the use of the common term 'Old South-West British' to refer to both languages in Schrijver 2011, where the author points out (p. 4) that 'it is impossible to find even one trait that distinguishes Cornish from Breton before the eleventh c[entury]'). For this reason, a solution may be find only by combining the linguistic and the palaeographical evidence. We come then to the palaeographical problem. As has been mentioned above, Dumville's 1994 'revisionist' view on the origin of this MS was based on the palaeographical evidence. However, it took more than a decade for a detailed palaeographical analysis of Voss. Lat. F 96 to be published: in an Appendix published in Falileyev and Owen 2005, Simpson (McKee) has offered a study of the script of the four scribes who collaborated in the writing of this bifolium (Simpson (McKee) 2005: 88–94). Among the numerous important points raised by this scholar, we should mention in particular the use of a particular abbreviation for _ut_ (with a _v_ vaguely shaped like a bird-silhouette topped by a comma), belonging to a class of abbreviations described by Dumville (1999: 125) as 'Late Celtic', and found in Irish, Welsh and Cornish—but, significantly, _not_ Breton—MSS from the middle of the ninth century onwards (Simpson (McKee) 2005: 89). On the basis of an analysis of such features and a comparison with other MSS, Simpson concludes that 'the Leiden Leechbook would be most easily acceptable as a specimen of Welsh handwriting, but a Cornish origin should not be discounted: its likelihood is merely impossible to evaluate, due to a lack of comparable material. A Breton origin seems significantly less reasonable, on current evidence. As far as the date of the Leechbook is concerned [...] I should favour a date within the first half-century after c. A.D. 900' (Simpson (McKee) 2005: 93). At this point, since the linguistic evidence points to either Old Breton or Old Cornish, but not Welsh, while the palaeographical evidence points to either Wales or Cornwall, but not Brittany, Cornwall does seem to emerge from this multidisciplinary approach as the most likely area where the MS in question was written, thereby making it likely that the vernacular forms occurring therein belong to a particularly early form of Old Cornish. The presence of the interlinear Old Irish gloss _tromm_ (fol. 1v, gl. Lat. _sambuci_, cf. Falileyev and Owen 2005: 9, 17) is certainly not incompatible with this solution (on the other hand, the presence of two Old English glosses in this MS is far from certain, cf. ibid., p. 9–10; Lambert 1986b: 317–18; [Porck 2018](https://thijsporck.com/2018/08/06/leiden-leechbook/)): after all, the occurrence of glosses in multiple vernacular languages in a single MS is a rare but nonetheless documented phenomenon, the Cambridge Juvencus being of course one of the best-known specimens (for plausible scenarios in relation to the production and transmission of the Leiden Leechbook, see Falileyev and Owen 2005: 86–7; Simpson (McKee) 2005: 93–4). Overall, the present _status quaestionis_ in relation to this MS indicates that it was probably written c. AD 900 in a Cornish scriptorium, rather than in Brittany (cf. Dumville 2005: 55, 'The evidence of script absolutely forbids a date before about 850 and also disallows the possibility of a Breton origin'). Interestingly, Stuart (1979) observed similarities between the text copied on fol. 2v of the Leiden Leechbook and materials occurring in Laon, BM, 426bis, a MS written (according to Bischoff, _Kat._ §2117) in North-Eastern Francia in the late ninth century. 2208 Bischoff 1990: 90 (n. 44); Bronner 2017: 64; Deuffic 2008: 127–8, 130 (n. 233); _DGVB_ 4, 15, 18; Dumville 1993: 12, n. 51; Dumville 2005: 55–6; Falileyev and Owen 2005 (with complete facsimile); Jackson 1953: 62; Lambert 1986b; Lambert 2018: 15–16; Lemoine 1985: 11–12, 287; _LF_ §320; de Meyier 1973: I, 215; [_MIrA_](http://www.mira.ie/244); _PMSB_ 300 (§38); [Porck 2018](https://thijsporck.com/2018/08/06/leiden-leechbook/); Schlutter 1910; Schrijver 2011: 8; Simpson (McKee) 2005; Simpson (McKee) 2012b: 170; Smith 1992: 167 (n. 81); Stokes 1897; Stuart 1979; [_Wikipedia_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_Manuscript). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 09-07-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/63 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/63 18 5 128 Cornwall Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 63 31 Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden 4 https://thijsporck.com/2018/08/06/leiden-leechbook/ Not on-line (last checked 02/04/2020). Several images from this manuscript can be seen at 64 MS 120 Fragment (fols 1-2 and 102-103) XI (2/2?) / XII (1/2?) 1051 1150 Abbey of Saint-Pierre de la Couture (Le Mans) Missal (fragment). 0 0 This MS contains a fragment (4 fols) from a missal of undetermined origin, and without any musical notation. An ex-libris from the abbey of Saint-Melaine of Rennes can be read at fol. 101v (therefore lying outside of the missal fragment; _Hic liber est sancti Melanii Redonensis cenobii. Si quis eum furatus fuerit, anathema sit. Amen_); however, since this ex-libris is plainly late (13th-century?), it does not prove a Breton origin for any part of the MS (_pace_ Huglo 1963: 62, 67, 75, and _CMD_ VII, 566). The manuscript must have reached Le Mans from Rennes, but whether it was written at Rennes or somewhere else, we do not know. n/a [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D25010826); _CGM_ 20: 92–3; _CMD_ VII, 566; Huglo 1963: 62, 67, 75; _ILLB_ R189 (end); _PMSB_ 299 (§34). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/64 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/64 4 129 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:48:38.000000Z 64 130 Rennes Possibly 48°06'53.0"N 1°40'22.9"W coordinates for the church of Saint-Melaine at Rennes 48.114722 -1.673028 129 2 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 64 131 North-Western Francia Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:48:38.000000Z 64 32 BM Le Mans 3 21 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=5474 65 MS 260 Whole MS (167 fols) IX 1/2 801 850 Abbey of Saint-Pierre de la Couture (Le Mans) - Augustine, Tractates on John's Gospel (incomplete) - Augustine, Homilies on John's Gospel. 0 0 Deuffic's inclusion of this MS in his _PMSB_ (p. 299) depends on an unpublished list of MSS prepared by Léon Fleuriot (cf. _PMSB_ 290). However, I am not aware of any explicit evidence indicating that this MS was written in Brittany, and I do not know why Fleuriot included it in his list. There are different views on the origin of this MS: Bischoff (_Kat._ §2293) merely attributed it to 'Nördliches Frankreich (?)', while Samaran and Marichal (_CMD_ VII, 476) tentatively suggested that it may have been written at the abbey of Saint-Pierre de la Couture, at Le Mans. A colophon at fol. 128r gives us the name of one of the scribes, _Iohannes_, but this does not bring us any closer to an answer. 2293 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D25011584); _CGM_ 20: 186–7; _CMD_ VII, 476; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/2699/7217); _PMSB_ 299 (§35). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/65 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/65 2 17 27 132 Northern Francia Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:19:37.000000Z 65 133 North-Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:49:18.000000Z 65 134 Le Mans Possibly 48°00'08.0"N 0°12'01.5"E coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Pierre de la Couture at Le Mans 48.002222 0.200417 133 3 2021-05-07T14:21:52.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 65 32 BM Le Mans 2 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=3083 66 MS Add. 9381 Whole MS (141 fols) IX ex. / X 1/2 (ante AD 940) 876 940 Saint Petroc's, Bodmin (Cornwall) - Jerome, epistles and prologues (2r-5v) - Preface and capitula to Matthew's Gospel (5v-7v) - Decorated canon tables (9r-13v) - Gospel of Matthew (14r-47v) - Preface and capitula to Mark's Gospel (48r-49r) - Gospel of Mark (50r-71v) - Preface and capitula to Luke's Gospel (71v-73v) - Gospel of Luke (74r-107r) - Preface and capitula to John's Gospel (107r-108r) - Gospel of John (109r-132v) - _Capitulare evangeliorum de circulo anni_ (132v-140v). 0 0 This MS is also known as 'Bodmin Gospels' on account of its 51 records of grants of manumission, added in Latin and Old English at the priory of Saint Petroc at Bodmin (Cornwall) during the tenth and eleventh centuries (fols 1r-7v, 8r-v, 13r, 108r-v, 133v, 141r; cf. Jenner 1922–5). The names recorded in these manumissions are a precious source of information on the Old Cornish language (cf. Förster 1930; Jones 1999–2001). As for the area of writing of the Gospel-book itself, the scholarly opinion favours Brittany, although Lemoine (2004: 156) was certainly right when he wrote that 'son origine est mal connue.' Nevertheless, the geographical and cultural proximity between Brittany and Cornwall makes it likely that this MS was indeed written in the former country, probably around the late ninth or early tenth century (the Gospel-book must have been in Bodmin already by AD 940; cf. _PMSB_ 300). McGurk (1987: 165, n. 2) stated that this MS 'is related to the Harkness Gospels' ([New York, Public Library, MS De Ricci 115](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/93), certainly written at Landévennec), but unfortunately he did not provide any further details in this respect (although cf. _EBGB_ 11, n. 4). However, Lemoine (1994: 157–64) has highlighted considerable points of contact between the Bodmin and Harkness Gospels in relation to their incipits, explicits, prefaces, capitula and iconography; these similarities provide strong evidence in favour of Landévennec as the place where the Bodmin Gospels were written. In any case, a Breton origin seems virtually certain. 2357 _ASM_ 215 (§279); Bradshaw 1889: 470, 472, 486; [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_MS_9381); Dumville 1999: 125 (n. 31); _EBGB_ 11 (n. 4), 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In12; Jenner 1922–5; Jones 1999–2001; Ker 1957: 159 (§126); Lemoine 2004: 156–64; Lemoine 2005: 17; Lemoine 2008: 193, 197–8; McGurk 1987: 165 (n. 2); _OHLP_ 256–7; Rushforth 2012: 202–3; Schrijver 2011: 8; Simpson (McKee) 2012b: 170; Temple 1976: 73. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/66 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/66 1 135 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:49:37.000000Z 66 136 Landévennec Possibly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 135 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 66 33 British Library London 7 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_9381_fs001r 67 MS Add. 40000 4r-9v, 13r-87v X in. 901 925 Abbey of Thorney (Cambridgeshire) - Decorated canon tables (4v-9v) - Gospel of Matthew (13r-32v) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by capitula and preface (32v-45v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by capitula and preface (45v-69v) - Gospel of John (incomplete), preceded by capitula and preface (69v-87v). 0 0 The _Liber Vitae_ and several other entries added at fols 1r-4r, 9v-11r, 12r, 30r (on which see Clark 1995), as well as the presence of substantial Old English additions (glosses and inscriptions, cf. Ker 1957: 163), prove that this MS had reached England by the early eleventh century, and Thorney Abbey by c. AD 1100. The origin of this Gospel-book, however, is much less clear, and scholarly opinions vary. A Breton origin seems possible (especially on the basis of the decoration of its canon tables) but cannot yet be confirmed (cf. Gameson 2012b: 348–9, 'its precise place of origin (Brittany or western Francia) is debated'). n/a _ASM_ 224–5 (§295); [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Add_MS_40000); Clark 1995; _EBGB_ 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; Gameson 2012b: 348–9; _ILLB_ In13; Ker 1957: 163 (§131); Lapidge 1992: 100, n. 24; Lemoine 2004: 156; Lemoine 2005: 16–19; Lemoine 2008: 197–8; McGurk 1987: 165–6, n. 2; _PMSB_ 300 (§40); Simpson (McKee) 2012: 348–9; [_The Calendar and the Cloister_](https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/ms-17/apparatus.php?page=related_manuscripts). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/67 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/67 1 137 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 67 138 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 67 139 South-Western Francia Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 67 33 British Library London 3 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_40000_fs001r 68 MS Cotton Otho B. IX Whole MS (originally 122 fols; only 12 fols have survived) IX ex. 876 900 - Library of King Athelstan - Chester-le-Street - Durham Cathedral Priory. The four Gospels, of which only fragments survive. 0 0 Most of this MS (including its additions in Old English) was destroyed in the Cotton Library fire of 1731. Thanks to an inscription that could be read in the MS before its destruction, we know that this codex was already in England around AD 934, when King Athelstan donated it to the community of Saint Cuthbert, then at Chester-le-Street (cf. Ker 1957: 223–4). Moreover, a hymn or prayer to Saint Cuthbert was added on fol. 1v, probably sometime in the tenth century. This MS has been ascribed to Brittany on the basis of its script (cf. Wormald 1957: 162–3), and it seems that most scholars consider this attribution probable (cf. e.g. _ASM_ §354), although given the state of the MS—only 12 fragments of it remain—it is admittedly impossible to be certain. The dating indicated here is the one given by Bischoff (_Kat._ §2422). 2422 _ASM_ 277–8 (§354); _EBGB_ 13; Fleuriot 1983: 104; Gretsch 2006: 83; _ILLB_ In14; Ker 1957: 223–4 (§176); Keynes 1985: 170–9; McGurk 1987: 166, n. 2; _OHLP_ 257; _PMSB_ 301 (§41); Wormald 1957: 162–3. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/68 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/68 1 140 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:04:02.000000Z 68 33 British Library London 1 https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-a4xm One damaged folio can be seen at 69 MS Cotton Otho E. XIII Whole MS (180 fols) X 901 1000 Canterbury - _De principalibus synodis_ (2v) - Fragment from the table of contents of the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, recension A (3r-v) - _Liber ex lege Moysi_ (3v-9v) - Excerpts on divorce from the Shepherd of Hermas, Matthew, Jerome, Paul, and Mosaic Law (10r-11r) - _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, recension A augmented with material from recension B (11v-127v) - Passages from the _Hibernensis_, recension B (128r-130v, 133r-135v, 137r-139r, 143r-146r) - Roman Canons (130v-131v) - _Excerpta de libris Romanorum et Francorum_, also known as _Canones Wallici_ (132r-132v, 139r-141v) - Passages attributed to _libri Patricii_, similar to materials surviving in the Book of Armagh (132v) - Passages from the _Hibernensis_ (136r) - Legislation on thieves, including sections of the _Lex Salica_ (136v) - _Canones Adomnani_ (141v-143r) - Text on St. Serapion (146v-149v) - Excerpts (in a different hand) from the _Hibernensis_, recension B, textually close to [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42](q.v.) (150r-179v) - Excerpts from the Canons of Theodore (151r-151v). 1 1 Views on this manuscript's date diverge: Bischoff (_Kat._ §2423) indicated 'IX./X. Jh. oder X. Jh., Anfang' (cf. Bieler 1963: 14, 'saec. X in.), whereas Flechner (2019: I, 135) describes this as a 'tenth- or eleventh-century manuscript'; the tenth-century date indicated here is a compromise between these various positions. The script of the main hand is a Caroline minuscule exhibiting considerable insular influence. In view of this, and given that this MS contains 21 Old Breton glosses as well as numerous materials in common with other MSS with strong Breton affiliations (especially [Orléans, Médiathèque, 221](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99), as well as [Paris, BnF, Lat. 3182](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/134) and [Lat. 12021](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151)), it is very likely that it was written in Brittany, although, strictly speaking, we cannot exclude that it was written by a Breton scribe working outside Brittany, or in a centre of the Loire Valley under Breton influence. According to Dumville (1994: 89), the recension of the _Hibernensis_ occurring in this MS 'shows every sign of being a Breton creation, for its sole manuscript [i.e. Cotton Otho E.XIII] is best interpreted as a version in the making, and that manuscript is Breton.' The description of the contents presented here is adapted from Flechner 2019: I, 135–7. 2423 _ASM_ 283–4 (§361); Bauer 2008: 134–6; Bieler 1963: 14, 20–4; Bradshaw 1889: 412, 414, 475–6, 480, 487; [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Cotton_MS_Otho_E_XIII); _CLH_ 762–3 (§589), 789 (§620), 790 (§621); Deuffic 2008: 136 (n. 268); _DGVB_ 6; Dumville 1994: 89, 91, 93, 95; Elliot 2013: 105; Flechner 2003–4: 131–3; Flechner 2008: 29–30, 40–1; Flechner 2019: I, 135–7; Fleuriot 1983: 104; Grosjean 1944: 44–5; Lambert 2018: 8, 22; Lemoine 1985: 290; Meeder 2009: 182–5; _OHLP_ 257; _PMSB_ 301 (§42); Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 168 (n. 83); Stokes 1879–80: 328, 342–5. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/69 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/69 25 10 2 26 141 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:20:43.000000Z 69 142 Loire valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 69 33 British Library London 1 15 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_otho_e_xiii_fs001r 70 MS Egerton 609 Whole MS (102 fols) IX 3/3 867 900 - St-Martin of Tours - Marmoutier - Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus (1r-2v) - Prologue to Matthew's Gospel and canon tables (2v-7r) - Gospel of Matthew, with preface (7v-44v) - Gospel of Mark (imperfect), with preface (44v-53v) - Gospel of Luke (acephalous) (54r-77r) - Gospel of John, with preface (77v-101v) - Excerpts from John's Gospel (102r-v). 0 1 This important MS is also known (confusingly) as 'Gospel of Marmoutier', but only on account of the presence of an eighteenth-century ex-libris from the abbey of Marmoutier. This Gospel-book presents a rich iconography, with decorated canon tables at fols 3v-7r, full-page portraits of Saint Mark and Saint John (fols 45v and 78v) and numerous decorated zoomorphic initials belonging to the so-called 'Landévennec group.' Many insular abbreviations occur throughout (cf. Lemoine 2008: 187, 'les symboles continentaux sont utilisés conjointement aux symboles insulaires'), and several scholars have recognised Irish affiliations in relation to this MS. Thus, for example, Rand (1929: 166) described the script of Egerton 609 as follows: 'Continental, both majuscules and minuscules showing Insular traits. By one scribe, apparently an Irishman, who has mastered something of the manner of Tours'; moreover, the same scholar drew the following conclusions as to the manuscript's origin (Rand 1929: 167): 'Either a present from some other monastery (first to St. Martin's and then to Marmoutier) or the work of an Irishman experimenting at Tours.' In 1987, McGurk likewise highlighted a number of Irish features but also drew attention to certain affinities with Breton Gospel-books (McGurk 1987: 176). An ascription to Brittany had indeed been proposed before (e.g. _EBGB_ 14–15, n. 1, and 19, n. 3) and was eventually accepted by Bischoff (_Kat._ §2433). Simpson (McKee 1999: 280) even claims that 'a consensus seems now to have been reached: it is another manuscript from Brittany'; although this is perhaps excessive, it is nevertheless true that the combined evidence of script and decoration and the possibly 'Irish' character of the Gospel-text itself (although see the caveat in McNamara 2000b: 431 about this) do make a Breton origin at least probable. 2433 [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_609); Deuffic 2008: 122; Dumville 2005: 52; _EBGB_ 14–15, n. 1, and 19, n. 3; _ILLB_ In15; _L&S_ §961; Lemoine 2004: 156; Lemoine 2008: 187, 191, 193, 195; Marsden 1999: 290–1, 303; McGurk 1987: 176, 189; McNamara 1990b: 302 = McNamara 2000b: 431; Morey, Rand and Kraeling 1931: 260–1; _OHLP_ 257; _PMSB_ 301 (§43); Rand 1929: 68, 166–7 (§140); Saenger 1997: 102; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 280–2; Smith 1992: 167 (n. 81); [_Wikipedia_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_Gospel_Book_(British_Library,_MS_Egerton_609)). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/70 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/70 1 143 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:21:00.000000Z 70 144 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:50:40.000000Z 70 145 Tours Possibly 47°23'34.3"N 0°40'58.9"E coordinates for Tours 47.392861 0.683028 144 3 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 70 33 British Library London 1 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_609_fs001r 71 MS Egerton 2802 Whole MS (164 fols) XII 1/2 1101 1150 Abbey of the Holy Cross at Quimperlé Cartulary of the abbey of the Holy Cross at Quimperlé, including: - Life of Saint Gurthiern (4v-8r) - Lists of Popes; Archbishops of Tours; Bishops of Nantes, Vannes, and Quimper; Counts of Quimper (8v-22r) - Annals from Creation to AM 5824, from Isidore, _Etymologiae_ V, xxxix, 2-42 (23r-29r) - Annals from to AD 814 (Charlemagne's death) to AD 1128, focussing on Brittany, Western Francia and Britain (29r-51r) - Cartulary of Quimperlé proper (52r-105r, 118r-141v) - Life of Saint Ninnoca (106v-117r) - Judicial documents concerning a dispute between the abbeys of Redon and Quimperlé (142r-163v). 1 0 This is the cartulary of the abbey of the Holy Cross at Quimperlé. The MS was still at Quimperlé in the early nineteenth century, and only came to England when it was bought by Thomas Stapleton around 1840. The bulk of the MS was written during the first half of the twelfth century, although there are numerous later additions. In addition to charters, it also contains hagiographic materials concerning Saint Gurthiern and Saint Ninnoca, the sixth-century founder of the abbey of Quimperlé. The MS also contains papal lists as well as lists of the archbishops of Tours, lists of the bishops of Nantes, Vannes and Quimper, a list of the counts of Quimper, annals, judicial documents etc.; the cartulary proper, compiled by the monk Gurheden, occupies fols 52r–105r and 118r–141v. n/a [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Egerton_MS_2802); Henry, Quaghebeur and Tanguy 2014; _ILLB_ Q236, Q237; _L&S_ §922, 1000; Maître and de Berthou 1896. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/71 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/71 32 11 7 146 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:51:06.000000Z 71 147 Quimperlé Certainly 47°52'20.8"N 3°32'42.4"W coordinates for the abbey of the Holy Cross at Quimperlé 47.872444 -3.545111 146 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 71 33 British Library London 7 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_2802_fs001r 72 MS Harley 2686 Whole MS (225 fols) IX 2/4 826 850 Collection of the bookseller Nathaniel Noel, c. 1700 Isidore, _Etymologiae_. 0 0 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. 2447 [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Harley_MS_2686); [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0168 ); _PMSB_ 301 (§44, with wrong shelfmark 2696). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/72 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/72 31 17 148 Western Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 72 33 British Library London 4 12 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_2686_fs001r 73 MS Harley 2719 Whole MS (177 fols) IX 3/4 851 875 Unknown Nonius Marcellus, _De compendiosa doctrina_, with scholia (1r-177v). 1 0 This MS, which was written in the Loire Valley according to Bischoff's _Katalog_ (_Kat._ §2451), but in Brittany according to Bischoff 1994: 128, contains a fascinating assemblage of glosses in different vernacular languages: in addition to some glosses in Old French, we also find here one gloss in Old High German and one in Old Breton (_guelch_, glossing _strabones_ at fol. 13r, in the hand of the main glossator). However, at present it is not possible to know whether the MS was written in Brittany, copied from an exemplar that contained at least one Old Breton gloss, or glossed by a Breton speaker working outside of Brittany (e.g. at Tours or Fleury). 2451 Bauer 2008: 136; Bischoff 1994: 128; [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Harley_MS_2719); [_BStK Online_](https://glossen.germ-ling.uni-bamberg.de/bstk/414); _DGVB_ 6, 187; Dumville 2005: 58; Lemoine 1985: 290; Lindsay 1897; _PMSB_ 301 (§45); Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 172 (n. 108). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-04-2020 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/73 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/73 31 13 22 149 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 73 150 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 73 33 British Library London 3 12 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_2719_fs001r 74 MS Harley 2823 Whole MS (150 fols) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 - Chartres - Collection of the bookseller Nathaniel Noel, c. 1700 - Jerome, epistles and prologues (1r-4r) - Eusebius, Epistle to Carpianus (4r-v) - Decorated canon tables (5r-7v) - Gospel of Matthew, preceded by preface and capitula (8r-43v) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (43v-68v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and capitula (69r-110v) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (111r-139r) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (139v-150v). 0 0 This Gospel-book possibly originates from Brittany or Western Francia. The possibility of an ascription to Brittany (accepted by Bischoff in _Kat._ §2462, and by Ganz in _OHLP_ 257) is based on script, decoration, musical notation and text-type (cf. Benoît-Castelli and Huglo 1954: 174; _EBGB_ 13, n. 1; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 290). Lemoine briefly discussed a peculiar type of 'hybrid' insular-continental _g_ occurring in this MS: a similar letter-form can be found in [Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F.4.32](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/113) (Lemoine 2008: 187). 2462 Benoît-Castelli and Huglo 1954: 174; [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Harley_MS_2823); _EBGB_ 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In16; Jenner 1922–5: 144; Lemoine 2008: 187, 197; _OHLP_ 257; _PMSB_ 301 (§46). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/74 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/74 1 151 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 74 152 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 74 33 British Library London 3 16 https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/mdata6fe00b87240241cd463d1245aafe0746751cecc0 75 MS Harley 3376 Whole MS (94 fols) X ex. or XI 1/2 (probably around AD 1000) 976 1050 Worcester? Glossary of rare Latin words from _abacus_ to _fu_, related to the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary and containing many glosses in Old English, as well as two glosses in either Old Cornish or Old Breton. 1 1 Other fragments of this substantial glossary can be found in the MSS Lawrence, University of Kansas, Spencer Research Library, Pryce P2A: 1, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. misc. a. 3., fol. 49. This MS was certainly written in England, probably at Worcester. Lapidge (1992: 103) has pointed out that, in addition to including much Anglo-Saxon textual material, its compiler(s) also used 'materials of non-English origin, for buried among the English and Latin _interpretamenta_ are some of Breton or Cornish origin.' Indeed, Lapidge (ibid., n. 45) draws attention to the presence of two Brittonic glosses (_guohioc_, gl. _corupeta_ at fol. 43r, and _petelleriou_, gl. _cuple_ at fol. 48v; cf. Ker 1957: 313) which could equally be Old Cornish or Old Breton. For the possible use of Hiberno-Latin, or perhaps more generally Celtic-Latin, sources on the part of the compiler(s) of this glossary, see Herren 1992. n/a _ASM_ 359 (§436); [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Harley_MS_3376); Cooke 1997; Gretsch 1999: 314 (n. 163); Herren 1992; Ker 1957: 312–13 (§240); Lapidge 1992: 103–4; _OHLP_ 949–50; Oliphant 1966. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/75 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/75 9 153 Western England Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:52:08.000000Z 75 154 Worcester Possibly 52°11'19.4"N 2°13'14.9"W coordinates for Worcester 52.188722 -2.220806 153 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 75 33 British Library London 2 12 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_3376_fs001r 76 MS Harley 3941 Whole MS (265 fols in 2 volumes) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Jumièges - Letter of Braulio of Zaragoza to Isidore (acephalous) (1r) - Letter of Isidore to Braulio of Zaragoza (1r) - Isidore, _Etymologiae_ (2r-265v). 1 0 The MS is partly a palimpsest, the lower text being constituted by sections from a fifth- or sixth-century copy of the Eusebius-Jerome Chronicle (_CLA_ S, §1704; Ganz 2007a). An ex-libris on fol. 265v indicates that this MS was at Jumièges already in the twelfth century. Bischoff (_Kat._ §2481) did not hesitate to attribute the production of this MS to a Breton scriptorium, around the late ninth century or the first half of the tenth. Indeed, the MS does contain a substantial number of Old Breton glosses pertaining especially to the names of plants and animals, as well as medical and anatomical terms, edited and studied in Lambert 1999: 195–200. It is mostly on account of the presence of these vernacular glosses that Ganz (2007: 30) states that 'the manuscript was originally copied and studied somewhere west of Tours at the end of the ninth century' (although note that Ganz's reference to 'some seven Breton glosses' in Harley 3941 is erroneous, as Lambert has edited no less than thirty-two Old Breton glosses from this MS); it is also worth referring to Ganz 2007: 34, where the author states more explicitly that this MS 'was copied in Brittany.' In view of this manuscript's script and vernacular glosses, it seems very likely that it was written in Brittany. 2481 Bauer 2008: 136; [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Harley_MS_3941); _CLA_ S, 1704 = [_ELMSS_](https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/2007); Fleuriot 1979: 197; Ganz 2007a; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0172 ); Lambert 1999: 195–200; Lambert 2018: 40; Lemoine 1985: 289; Lemoine 2008: 192; _PMSB_ 302 (§47); Schrijver 2011: 10. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/76 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/76 31 17 155 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:05:04.000000Z 76 33 British Library London 1 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_3941_fs001r 77 MS Royal 1.A.XVIII Fols 4–199 IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Canterbury - Decorated canon tables (4r-11v) - Gospel of Matthew, preceded by preface (12r-66r) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (66r-99r) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface, capitula, and an explanation of the Hebrew names occurring in this Gospel, headed _Item incipit interpretatio nominum de Luca_ (99v-159v) - Gospel of John (imperfect), preceded by preface and capitula (159v-192v) - Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus (193r-194r) - Jerome, Preface to the four Gospels (194r-196r) - Eusebius, Epistle to Carpianus (imperfect) (196r-v) - Preface and capitula to Matthew's Gospel (197r-199v). 0 1 This MS is also known as 'Athelstan's Gospel': as shown by a notice on fol. 3r, it was part of the library of the English King, who subsequently donated it to the abbey of Saint Augustine at Canterbury c. AD 930 (cf. Marsden 2012: 422). In addition to the fact that both the script and the decoration point to a Breton origin (cf. _EBGB_ 12), the text of the Gospels in this MS is also close to that of other Breton evangeliaries, such as the famous [Paris, BnF, NAL 1587](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/168) (McGurk 1987: 176; Lemoine 2004: 156). Note also the occurrence of the Hellenizing phrase _Item nunc incidit breuis aeuangelii degestio cata Lucae_ at fol. 99r, immediately after the explicit formula _Explicit aeuangelium cata Marcum_: similar formulas occur in other Breton Gospel-books (cf. Lemoine 1995: 11–13). Scholars have pointed out some Irish affiliations in relation to this MS (cf. e.g. _PMSB_ 302); in particular, it is worth quoting at length O'Reilly's important remarks on the links between the iconography of the Book of Kells and Royal 1.A.XIII (O'Rahilly 1994: 225): 'These are correspondences of a specific and idiosyncratic kind. They suggest not a common Early Christian inheritance shared by the Book of Kells and Royal I.A.XVIII in this respect but direct contact between the Breton manuscript or, more probably, one of its exemplars, and an ancient but apparently Irish tradition. [...] The style of the decoration of the Gospel and the chi-rho in the Breton book would indicate that the continental contact with these insular practices had occurred at some considerable time prior to the tenth century date of Royal I.A.XVIII and had been assimilated into a post-Carolingian decorative and stylistic tradition for a quite different kind of "working" Gospel book format.' 2491 _ASM_ 365 (§444); [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Royal_MS_1_A_XVIII); _EBGB_ 11–12, 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In17; Keynes 1985: 165–70; Lemoine 1995: 11–13; Lemoine 2004: 156; Lemoine 2005: 16–17, 19; Lemoine 2008: 194; Lemoine 2010: 220; Marsden 2012: 422; McGurk 1987: 166 (n. 2), 176; _OHLP_ 257; O'Reilly 1994: 222–5; _PMSB_ 302 (§48). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/77 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/77 1 156 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:05:17.000000Z 77 33 British Library London 1 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_1_a_xviii_fs001r 78 MS Royal 5.E.XIII Whole MS (100 fols) X med. 925 975 Worcester - _Canon in Ebreica_ (1r-9r) - _De reddendis decimis et primitiuis quae dominus precipit_ (9r-15v) - Cyprian, _Ad Quirinum testimonia_ (_Testimoniale sancti Cipriani episcopi_) (16r-51v) - Excerpts from the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_ (52r-68v) - Penitential of Pseudo-Bede-Egbert (_De remedis peccatorum_) (69r-79r) - Canonical and penitential fragments (79r-v) - Fragment of the Latin version of the Book of Enoch (79v-80r) - _De uindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum_ (80r-81v) - Incomplete copy of the Gospel of Nicodemus (82r-100r) 1 1 This MS probably reached England at an early stage, as shown by the presence of entries in a tenth- or eleventh-century English hand (e.g. at fol. 80v, although note the doubts expressed in Elliot 2013: 106 as to when this MS was brought to England). The dating adopted here is the one indicated in _ASM_ 378 (Bischoff, _Kat._ §2493 opted instead for 'IX. Jh., Ende'; cf. also Bischoff 1976: 159, n. 126; Meens (2014: 232) adopts an even earlier dating 's. IX med.'). This MS contains three glosses in Old Breton (fols 2v, 38r, 63r), so that production in a Breton scriptorium must at least be envisaged as a possibility, although Bischoff (_Kat._ §2493) only said what follows in relation to its place of writing: 'Frankreich (Kanalküste?, unter bretonischem Einfluß).' An origin in 'N[orthern] France or Brittany' is suggested also in _ASM_ 378. The abbreviation system does indeed point to a Breton origin (consider, e.g., the instances of the distinctive abbreviation _ɔc_ for _contra_, for example at fols 69r; cf. Lemoine 2008: 190–1; note also the occurrence of the invocation _In nomine Dei summi_ at fol. 16r, for which cf. Lemoine 2008: 196). A possible Breton origin for this MS (or perhaps for its exemplar) is supported also by the range of texts contained therein, especially in view of the remarkable interest of the Early Medieval Breton _literati_ for penitential literature and the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_. It is also worth noting that, in addition to containing the Latin version of several apocryphal texts, this MS also preserves a copy of a rare work of probable Irish origin: the _Canon in Ebreica_, surviving only in the London codex in question and in Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. 254 (possibly written in Northern Italy and later preserved at Reichenau; s. VIII ex. / IX in.) (cf. Ambrose 2013: 11–14; Bischoff, _Kat._ §1735). The text titled _De uindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum_ too exhibits prominent Hiberno-Latin features and appears to have survived in this codex only (cf. Ambrose 2011: 45–7). Note, in conclusion, the following comments by Dumville (2005: 58, with additional bibliography in n. 50), according to whom this MS, which may have had a 'German parent', 'contains alongside Old-Breton notes a non-Latin gloss (_ersceg_ to _in fundiculum_) whose very language has so far defied identification' (although it now seems that it may be Old English, as has been suggested in Elliot 2013: 106). 2493 Ambrose 2011; Ambrose 2013; _ASM_ 378–9 (§459); [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Royal_MS_5_E_XIII); _CLH_ 214–15 (§183), 772 (§611); Dumville 1973: 331 and n. 204; Dumville 1994: 87–91, ; Dumville 2005: 58; Elliot 2013: 105–6; Fleuriot and Evans 1985; Frantzen 1983: 579; Lambert 2018: 40; Lemoine 2008: 190–1, 196; Meens 2014: 232 (erroneously listed as 'Royal 5 E. XII'); _OHLP_ 257; Petitmengin 1993; Schrijver 2011: 10; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 288; Stevenson 1999: 348, n. 117. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/78 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/78 25 10 2 33 157 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 78 158 Northern Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 78 33 British Library London 3 10 11 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_5_e_xiii_fs001r 79 MS Royal 8.B.XIV 4th C.U. (fols 118-144) XI in. 1001 1025 - England (Winchester?) (s. XI ex.) - Collection of John Lumley (d. 1609). Acephalous collection of _Vitae_, homilies and liturgical materials pertaining to Saint Judoc. Some materials were added in England in the late 11th century. - Isembard of Fleury, _Vita secunda sancti Iudoci_ and _Inventio sancti Iudoci_ (acephalous) (118r-121v) - Isembard of Fleury, _Sermo de sancto Iudoco_ (120r-121v) - Isembard of Fleury, _Miracula sancti Iudoci_ (121v-129v) - Homily on Saint Judoc, based on Alcuin's _Vita sancti Vedasti_ (129v-131v) - Sermon by Lupus of Ferrières for a feast of Saint Judoc (131v-133v) - Masses for the _inventio_ and _translatio_ of Saint Judoc (134r-135v) - Two hymns for Saint Judoc (136v) - Prayer to Saint Judoc (136v) - Metrical _Vita sancti Iudoci_ (added in late 11th-century England) (137v-144v). 0 0 A possible Breton origin is proposed in _ASM_ 387 (§474.5, with exhaustive bibliography), but Saint-Josse is also suggested there as an alternative place of writing. In view of the prominent Breton connections of Saint-Josse-sur-Mer, involving Saint Judoc specifically (cf. e.g. Lapidge 2000: 255–61; Brett 2017: 91–2; for the monks from Landévennec who settled at nearby Montreuil-sur-Mer after the Viking attack of AD 913, see Le Bourdellès 1995; Lebecq 2015b), the latter possibility seems just as plausible as the former, if not more plausible. The description of the manuscript's contents given in the present Handlist is based on Lapidge 2000: 264–5; however, it should be noted that Poulin considers fols 137v–144v—which contain the metrical _Vita sancti Iudoci_—as an altogether distinct codicological unit produced in late eleventh-century England, probably at Winchester (Poulin 2009: 103, 113, 115) n/a _ASM_ 387 (§474.5); Lapidge 2000: 255–61, 264–5; Lebecq 2015b: 167–8; Poulin 2009: 102–3, 113, 115. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/79 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/79 11 4 28 27 159 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:52:54.000000Z 79 160 Northern Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:52:54.000000Z 79 161 Saint-Josse-sur-Mer Possibly 50°28'07.6"N 1°39'51.1"E coordinates for Saint-Josse-sur-Mer 50.468778 1.664194 160 3 2021-05-07T14:21:53.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 79 33 British Library London 3 11 80 MS Royal 13.A.X 2nd C.U. (fols 63–103) X 2/2 or XI in. 951 1025 Winchester? - Bili of Aleth, _Vita Sancti Machuti_, including verses inc. _Vitales qui cupis doctorum capere fructus_ and a hymn to Saint Machutis (63r-98r) - _Homelia in natale Sancti Machutis_ (98r-103v) - Excerpt from Eutropius, _Breviarium Historiae Romanae_ (added in the 12th century). 0 0 The fact that this Anglo-Saxon MS contains a 'cluster' of texts concerning Saint Machutis suggests that its exemplar (or one of its examplars) may have been a Breton MS, possibly from the area of Aleth (present-day Saint-Servant at Saint-Malo). n/a _ASM_ 391–2 (§482); [_British Library Digitised Manuscripts_](http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Royal_MS_13_A_X); Dumville 1992c: 110; _L&S_ §825, 896; Poulin 2009: 147–9; Smith 1990: 332 (n. 101). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/80 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/80 11 21 27 28 162 England Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:53:11.000000Z 80 163 Winchester Possibly 51°03'39.6"N 1°18'52.8"W coordinates for Winchester 51.061000 -1.314667 162 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 80 33 British Library London 2 11 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_13_a_x_f063r 81 MS 1231 Flyleaves only (one bifolium and one leaf) IX 2/2 851 900 England A fragment of the _Collectio Canonum Hibernesnsis_ (passages from books II, VIII, IX, X). 0 1 A Breton origin is indicated in Bill 1972: 61, _ASM_ §520.4, and _OHLP_ 257. Given the remarkable number of copies of the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_ produced in Early Medieval Brittany, this ascription is certainly plausible (cf. Dumville 1984b: 216, n. 46), although presently unconfirmed. Dumville (1994: 88) has suggested that this 'might have been a complete copy of the _Hibernensis_.' n/a _ASM_ 415–16 (§520.4); Bill 1972: 61; _CLH_ 772 (§610); Elliot 2013: 106–7; Dumville 1984b: 216 (n. 46); Dumville 1994: 88–91; [_Lambeth Palace Library, Database of Manuscripts and Archives_](https://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MSS%2F1231); _OHLP_ 257. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/81 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/81 25 164 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 81 34 Lambeth Palace Library London 3 82 MS 154 26 fols (13 bifolia) removed from a binding X 901 1000 Winchester (Nunnaminster?) (s. X ex.) - Sacramentary - Lists of New Testament pericopes - Two Gospel pericopes. 0 0 These thirteen bifolia were retrieved from the binding of a twelth-century English survey known as 'Winton Domesday.' Their possible Breton origin is discussed in Dumville 1991: 48–9 and indicated, e.g., in Pfaff 2009: 93; however, an English origin is noted as a possible alternative in _ASM_ §522. n/a _ASM_ 418 (§522); Dumville 1991: 48–9; _ILLB_ In40; Pfaff 2009: 93; Rankin 2012: 489. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/82 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/82 4 165 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 82 166 England Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 82 35 Society of Antiquaries London 3 https://www.sal.org.uk/collections/explore-our-collections/collections-highlights/liturgy/ Two folios can be seen at 83 MS 89 Fragment (4 fols) IX 2/3 834 866 Echternach - _Hisperica Famina_, recensions B and C, with glosses - Medical text from the _Prognostica Galieni_, followed by list of the six days of Creation, number of years from Creation to the Deluge, etymology of _sol_ ('sun') from _solus_, with no overt breaks to separate these heterogeneous textual elements ([Paris, BnF, Lat. 11411](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/147), fol. 99v) - Poem _Ad deum meum conuertere uolo_ ([Paris, BnF, Lat. 11411](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/147), fol. 99v + Luxembourg, BN, 89, fol. 4r). 1 1 This fragment originally belonged to one and the same MS together with [Paris, BnF, Lat. 11411 {A}](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/147), fols 99–100. The original MS, which reached the monastic library of Echternach in unknown circumstances, contained recensions B and C of the _Hisperica Famina_, with Old Breton glossing. According to Bischoff (_Kat._ §2534), this MS was written in the frontier area between Eastern Brittany and North-Western Francia ('Wohl Nordwestfrankreich, bretonisches Randgebiet') around the second third of the ninth century; while this may well be right (see below for the possibility that the scribe of this MS was actually _not_ Breton-speaking), it is nonetheless unclear why Bischoff ascribed this MS to the 'bretonisches Randgebiet', rather than to Brittany itself (cf. also Lapidge 1985, esp. 1–3 and 8, where an origin in Echternach is suggested). A remarkable feature of this MS (occurring at fol. 99r of Lat. 11411, cf. Jenkinson 1908: 30) is the _explicit_ formula _in basilionis polinonomate finitum est hoc opus sit · sic · sat · hoc · hic elion eie in honomate_, which precedes a copy of the prognostic text known as 'Sphere of Life and Death' or 'Apuleian Sphere' (inc. _Ratio spere Pitagore philosophi que Apollogius describit_). Regardless of its bizarre (and corrupt) Latin, the importance of this _explicit_ resides in the fact that several precise parallels can be found in a small group of MSS, all written in Brittany or anyway strongly connected to Brittany: as pointed out by Jenkinson (1908: xxxii) the phrase _in basilioni libro_ occurs in [London, BL, Royal 5.E.XIII](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/78) (unfortunately, Jenkinson did not indicate the folio number) in relation to a citation from one of the biblical books of Kings; moreover, the Hellenizing collocation _in honomate_ can be found in the _incipit_ formulas _In honomate sumitonantis ars Euticis gramatici incipit_ in [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F.4.32](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/113), fol. 1v, _In honomate filii redemptoris cosmi a m(alo)_ in [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), fol. 249(bis)r, and, finally, _In diuine sanctae Trinitatis honomate nunc orditur euangelium cata Matheum_ in [Angers, BM, MS 24](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/5), fol. 5r (Lemoine 1989: 147). As for the use of the word _poli_ (gen. sg. of _polus_) to refer to heaven or perhaps to the whole universe, we may compare this with Arbedoc's colophon in [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151), fol. 139v, where God is referred to by the Hisperic phrase _herum poli_, 'Lord of heaven' (cf. Lemoine 1995: 12–13; Lemoine 2001: 262–3; Lambert 2018: 25–6). In view of all this, the reading _in basilionis polinonomate_ can be reconstructed as _in basilionis poli honomate_, i.e. 'in the name of the King of heaven' (for the implications of the _h_/_n_ confusion in _nonomate_ for _honomate_, see Lemoine 2008: 186; Lemoine 2010: 219, n. 20). It is also important to say a few things about the Old Breton glosses that accompany recensions B and C of the _Hisperica Famina_ (recension C being, in particular, a set of _glossae collectae_ rather than a continuous text, cf. Herren 1974a: 9–10): in addition to being very numerous (94 in the Luxembourg fragment and 9 in the Paris fragment, cf. _DGVB_ 5–6), Lambert has recently pointed out that some of them contain linguistic archaisms, such as the systematic use of the perfective particle _ro_ in verbal forms glossing Latin perfects (Lambert 2018: 24–5); this suggests that, while the MS itself may date from the second third of the ninth century (as proposed by Bischoff), its contents were in all likelihood copied from an older Breton exemplar. This is supported by other kinds of evidence, such as the incorrect placement of some glosses; indeed, as has been summarised in Lemoine 2010: 219, 'précédant le texte que nous connaissons [i.e., of recension B of the _Hisperica Famina_] il y a, au moins, un modèle glosé en breton lui-même copié d'un modèle glosé en latin et très vraisemblablement écrit d'une main insulaire' (note that these considerations also apply to recension C). Significantly, Lemoine added that it is probable that this copyist 'ne comprenait pas le breton, pas plus que l'hispérique d'ailleurs.' It should finally be noted that Fleuriot's puzzling mention of 'Luxembourg ms 167' in _DGVB_ 121, s.v. _couuuantolion_ (a reference mechanically reproduced in Bauer 2008: 148), must in fact be an erroneous reference to Luxembourg, BN, 89. 2534 Bauer 2008: 136–47; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc873753); Bradshaw 1889: 412, 462–3, 467–70, 488; _CLH_ §570, 573; _DGVB_ 5–6; Dronke 1986; Falmagne and Deitz 2009: I, 179, 189, and Abb. 6; Gaidoz and Bradshaw 1890; Grosjean 1957: 37–8; Herren 1974a: 7–10; Herren 1974b: 70; Jenkinson 1908: xii–xiii, xxx–xxxvi; Lambert 2018: 23–5; Lapidge 1985; Lemoine 1985: 288; Lemoine 1989: 147; Lemoine 1995: 12; Lemoine 2008: 186; Lemoine 2010: 219–20, 223; _L&S_ §326, 327; _PMSB_ 302 (§49) and 311 (§84); Rhys 1872: 346–7; Rhys 1873–5; Rhys 1892; Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 168 (n. 83); Wickersheimer 1966: 123–4. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/83 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/83 16 21 18 167 Eastern Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:22:53.000000Z 83 168 North-Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 83 36 Bibliothèque Nationale Luxembourg 15 22 84 MS 9605 (E e 40) Whole MS (117 fols) AD 1026 1026 1026 Avignon A complex miscellaneous collection of astronomical and computistical texts, tables and diagrams, including the _Computus Helperici_ (incomplete; 1r-10v). For a description of the highly heterogeneous contents, see especially Cordoliani 1955 and Borst 2006: I, 249–50. 1 1 The date and the Provençal origin of this MS are revealed by an informative colophon occurring at fol. 117v, mentioning the name of the scribe, _Arnulfus_, and that of the powerful countess of Provence Adélaïde-Blanche of Anjou (_Adalax comitissa_). Nonetheless, it is likely that at least some of the contents of Madrid 9605 derived from a line of transmission leading to Brittany, as shown by the occurrence of one Old Breton gloss at fol. 69r (_sterdigkiniat_, literally meaning 'star-soothsayer', gl. Lat. _astrologus_), as well as by numerous textual matches with a group of MSS that includes the Breton computistical collections in [Angers, BM, 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8) and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), as argued in Bisagni (2020b). Interestingly, this MS also present numerous parallels with the contents of the so-called 'Bobbio Computus', i.e. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, H 150 inf. (probably written in a Northern Frankish scriptorium, in spite of its traditional name, around AD 826). For another 11th-century manuscript from southern France (also possibly from Avignon) presenting materials of probable Breton origin, see the entry concerning [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Barb.lat.477](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/186). n/a Bisagni 2020b; Borst 2001: I, 272–4; Borst 2006: I, 249–50; Cordoliani 1955; Eastwood 1983. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/84 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/84 20 6 8 169 Provence Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:53:52.000000Z 84 170 Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Probably 43°57'58.1"N 4°48'03.2"E coordinates for the abbey of Saint-André at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon 43.966139 4.800889 169 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 84 37 Biblioteca Nacional Madrid 2 15 http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000054177&page=1 85 MS 204 Fragment (4 damaged fols) IX 3/4 851 875 Unknown Alcuin, _Dialogus Franconis et Saxonis de octo partibus orationis_ (fragment). 1 0 The Breton origin of this MS is suggested especially by the occurrence of five Old Breton glosses in it (cf. Gerhardt 1940); however, since this is only a brief and damaged fragment, it is admittedly impossible to be certain. Theoretically, this MS could have been written by a Breton-speaking scribe active at Tours or in a centre of the Loire Valley (alternatively, a non-Breton scribe working in one of those centres could have been copying from an exemplar containing Old Breton glosses). It is nonetheless worth pointing out that Alcuin's grammatical dialogue occurs in other MSS with prominent Breton connections: [Saint-Omer, BM, 666](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/210) and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 13957](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/160); it is therefore possible that this text was of particular interest to the Breton ecclesiastical _literati_. 2765 Bauer 2008: 148; _DGVB_ 5; Gerhardt 1940; Lemoine 1985: 289; _PMSB_ 302 (§50); Smith 1992: 169 (n. 89). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/85 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/85 13 171 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 85 172 North-Western Francia (near Brittany) Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 85 38 Domstiftsbibliothek Merseburg 3 14 86 MS H 153 Whole MS (108 fols) IX 3/4 851 875 Saint-Loup of Troyes Four Gospels with Eusebian canon tables and prefaces. 0 0 Bischoff's geographical ascription of this MS (Fischer's 'Bu') reads as follows: 'Wahrscheinlich bretonisches Randgebiet' (_Kat._ §2838; cf. also _OHLP_ 257, where Ganz lists this MS in his series of Breton Gospel-books). The decoration certainly shows a remarkable degree of insular influence (cf. e.g. the large initial _Li_ on fol. 32v), and Lemoine has drawn attention to a number of occurrences of the insular _g_ letter-form (Lemoine 2008: 187). However, the question of this manuscript's origin would need a fresh reassessment. 2838 [_Calames_](http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/#details?id=D01040968); Cames 2004–5: 20; _CGM_ 1 (in quarto): 346; _ILLB_ In18; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/8916/7595); Lemoine 2001: 267; Lemoine 2008: 187, 193; _OHLP_ 257; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 285, 290. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/86 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/86 1 173 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 86 174 North-Western Francia (near Brittany) Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 86 39 Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine Montpellier 3 9 87 MS Clm 396 Whole MS (43 fols) IX ex. 876 900 Munich, Hofbibliothek - Homily on the end of the world (acephalous fragment inc. _et omnia uanitas. et omnis dies timendus est nobis tamquam ultimus_) (1r) - Exegetical-computistical passage on Creation and the _bissextus_, inc. _<I>terum interrogo uos qui bene nostis duas ebdomadas in quibus omnia fecit Deus inter duo elementa_ (1r) - Isidore, _De natura rerum_ (1v-34r) - Diagram and Hisperic colophon, inc. _Acsi nautores post tethicam gurgitum molestiam_ (34v) - Excerpt from Orosius, _Historiae adversum paganos_, I, 2, 1–105, titled _Liber canonum in D(e)i nomen ratio totius orbis vel prouintiarum_ (35r-42r) - _Recapitulatio de nomina region....is...._ (a copy of the _Nomina prouinciarum_ from Polemius Silvius, _Laterculus_) (42v-43r) - _Item nomina prouinciarum uel ciuitatum_ (the _Notitia Galliarum_, incomplete) (43r-v). 0 1 There is considerable confusion in relation to this manuscript's origin. In her catalogue, Bierbrauer (1990: 137) indicates that it was written at the end of the ninth century in 'Bretagne oder Wales', further adding (at p. 138) that this MS 'ist nach Bischoff in einem Zentrum mit keltischen Traditionen, vielleicht in Wales oder in der Bretagne entstanden.' Now, there is no doubt as to this manuscript's 'insular' character, especially in view of the numerous insular abbreviations (for _autem_, _con_, _enim_, etc.) occurring throughout, as shown by Bischoff in his _Katalog_ (_Kat._ §2927, where, interestingly, Bischoff refrained from indicating any explicit attribution to a given scriptorium or geographical area). Bierbrauer's reference to an origin in Brittany or Wales appears to be based on Bischoff 1966: 182, 185 (n. 94); however, in that publication Bischoff rather focussed on the origin of the Hisperic colophon copied at fol. 34v—a text whose 'Celtic-Latin' character is indeed quite unmistakable. Since in his _Katalog_ entry Bischoff wrote that the colophon in question 'auf eine bretonische Vorlage deutet', it seems eminently possible that he thought that the insular features of Munich Clm 396 derived in fact from its exemplar, rather than being due to the place of origin of the MS itself, which, on account of its five interlinear glosses in Old High German, was in all likelihood written in a (Southern?) German scriptorium (note that the probably erroneous attribution to Brittany or Wales is repeated in Paniagua 2018: 96, 117). Nonetheless, in view of the fairly widespread Breton practice of composing colophons in Hisperic Latin (cf. e.g. Lemoine 1988; Lemoine 1995), the possibility that Munich Clm 396 was copied (at least partially) from a Breton exemplar must be taken very seriously (cf. Arnaud-Lindet 1990: lxxvii, 'Il a été écrit en caroline par un scribe insulaire, ou qui copiait un modèle insulaire'). Such an origin for this manuscript's exemplar is suggested also by the rare spelling _epdomata_ (instead of _ebdomata_, 'week') at fol. 5r-v (for the Breton and Irish affiliations of this peculiar spelling, see Bisagni 2020a: 37–46). The presence of an excerpt from Orosius's _Historiae_—a text widely read and glossed in Early Medieval Brittany—may lend further support to this hypothesis. In this context, it is also worth mentioning the possibility that the above-mentioned German glosses may reflect a 'bavarianization' of Old English glosses (cf. Thoma 1963: 225): could we perhaps imagine a line of transmission for this MS from England to Germany via Brittany and Francia? Another interesting feature of this MS deserves to be briefly discussed here: the on-line digital facsimile allows to see that the first two folios were cut off, and some letters are still visible in what remains of the margins. That this removal was motivated by the very nature of the text contained in the lost folios, rather than by any practical reasons, is shown by the fact that the conclusion of this text, which can still be read in what is now fol. 1r, was crossed out—a treatment typically reserved to texts whose contents had come to be seen as less than 'orthodox.' The few extant concluding words of the text suggest that this was a homily focussing on the end of the world; while the remaining fragment is too short to enable us to guess what may have triggered the rather extreme censorship described above, it is nonetheless most interesting that the following words can be read in the fragment surviving on fol. 1r: _Post ignes exmara_ [sic] _cruces atque bestias sancti cumagno_ [sic] _triumpho ibunt_. This passage corresponds very closely to some lines from an antiphon on the martyrs only attested, to my knowledge, in the Antiphonary of Bangor (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C. 5 inf., fol. 32v): _Post ignes et lamminas, / cruces adque bestias, / sancti cum magno triumpho / uehuntur in regno / et in refrigerio_. This textual match raises the concrete possibility that this was an Irish homily, or a continental (Breton?) homily relying on Irish sources. Finally, on fol. 1r the 'censored' homiletic fragment is followed by a brief and puzzling exegetical-computistical passage (not crossed-out) concerning the week of Creation and the _bissextus_. As for the copy of Polemius Silvius's _Nomina prouinciarum_ occurring at fols 42v-43r, Paniagua (2018: 113–21, with _stemma codicum_ at p. 117) has shown that Munich 396 may derive from a stemmatic node shared with Paris, BnF, Lat. 2123, a MS written c. AD 814–816 at Flavigny. 2927 Arnaud-Lindet 1990: lxxvii; Bierbrauer 1990: 137 (§262); Bischoff 1966: 182, 185 (n. 94); [_BStK Online_](https://glossen.germ-ling.uni-bamberg.de/bstk/451); _CLH_ §570; _L&S_ §330; Paniagua 2018: 33, 95–7, 113–21; Thoma 1963: 224–5. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/87 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/87 8 16 27 17 40 39 175 Germany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 87 176 Southern Germany Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 87 40 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich 2 11 https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0004/bsb00047184/images/ 88 MS Clm 14096 1st C.U. (101 fols) VIII ex. / IX in. 776 825 Regensburg (Sankt-Emmeram) - Isidore, _Prooemia in libros Veteris ac Novi Testamenti_ (acephalous) (1r-14v) - Isidore, _Vita vel obitus sanctorum_ (14v-39v) - Isidore, _Allegoriae_ (39v-62r) - _Testimonia diuinae Scripturae_ (containing excerpts from the _Proverbia Grecorum_, as well as interesting _computistica_ at fols 65r-v) (63r-99v). 0 1 While this MS was in all likelihood produced in a 'Celtic' writing centre, its precise origin remains elusive. Bischoff (1960: 229) drew attention to the mixture of insular and Carolingian traits in the script of at least some of the numerous hands detectable herein, and in his view this fact points to an origin in Western Britain (Wales or Cornwall) or Brittany. Moreover, Wunderle (1995: 232–3) added that some of the hands may betray Anglo-Saxon influence and argued that some abbreviations found at fols 1r–62r (containing several works by Isidore of Seville) may point to the use of an exemplar from Iberia (in relation to this point, cf. also Bischoff 1960: 229). Unfortunately, for the moment there does not seem to be enough evidence to attribute this MS to a specific geographical area, although the simultaneous presence of insular and Carolingian features in the script means that Brittany remains a credible option. Significantly, excerpts from the (Hiberno-Latin?) _Prouerbia Grecorum_ occur among the _Testimonia diuinae Scripturae_ that occupy fols 63r–99v (for the details and relevant bibliography, see Wright 2006: 195, 197–8; for further points of contact with Hiberno-Latin texts, see McNally 1961: 313). An interesting reference to the fifteenth year of the reign _Dagperti regis_ ('of King Dagobert', undoubtedly Dagobert I) as _nunc_ (i.e. the present year = AM 5845) can be found in a section titled _De mundi annositate_—a chronology of the six ages of the world—at fol. 65r: this passage, which may have been part of the prologue to the _Testimonia_ (a text also found in the _Florilegium Frisingense_ in Munich, BS, Clm 6433, a MS written at Freising in the late eighth century by the Anglo-Saxon scribe Peregrinus; cf. Lehner 1987: 44; Wright 2006: 197–8, n. 19), can be dated accordingly to AD 644 (the years of Dagobert's reign are counted here from the death of his father Clothar II in AD 629/630, and this means that Dagobert's death may have to be redated, probably to AD 646, as has been pointed out to me by Immo Warntjes in private correspondence). This chronology is followed (fols 65r–65v) by (1) a simple account of the _regulae mensium_ (listing which months have 30 or 31 days, etc.) and (2) a mention of the growth of the _bissextus_ from the superfluous _three_ hours in each year (_CCCLXV dies et III horas in anno de quibus tribus oris per quattuor annos crescit dies unus / et inde sit_ [sic, for _fit_] _bisextus qui in mense martio addetur quia mensis martius per tres annos XXX et unum diem habet in quarto uero XXX duos_). This short computistical text (which is probably unrelated to the previous passage containing the dating clause for AD 644; for a similar textual association, cf. Fulda, Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek, MS D 1, fols 181r–182r) contains some interesting features: in particular, both the idea of a bissextile day of 12 (rather than 24) hours and its placement in March can be found prominently in Irish computistical texts (cf. e.g. Warntjes 2010: 120–1, 130–1); indeed, Bede took an explicit stance against the former view in _De temporum ratione_, 39.10–12 (cf. also Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 321 (647), p. 105, ll. 2–4). Moreover, the explicit mention of a duration of 32 days for the month of March when including the _bissextus_ is extremely rare: so far, I have only come across it in the _Computus Hibernicus Parisinus_ of AD 754 preserved in [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), fol. 276v (with some excerpts surviving also in [Angers, BM, MS 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8)), where, however, the anonymous author uses this datum to argue _against_ a March placement of the bissextile day. 3131 _ASM_ 612–13 (851.6); Bischoff 1960: 229; Bischoff 1961: 186–7; Bischoff 1984b; _CLH_ 740 (§578); [_Codecs_](https://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Munich,_Bayerische_Staatsbibliothek,_MS_Clm_14096/ff._1-101); De Bruyne 1933: 119–20; Flechner 2008b: 100–1 (n. 3); McNally 1961: 306–7, 313; Wright 2006: 195, 197–8; Wunderle 1995: 231–6. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2022 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/88 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/88 6 2 17 177 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 88 178 Cornwall Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 88 179 Wales Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 88 40 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich 3 https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0003/bsb00035053/images/ 89 MS Clm 14387 2nd C.U. (fols 14-19) IX med. 825 875 Regensburg (Sankt-Emmeram)? Bede, _De orthographia_ (acephalous and incomplete) (14r-19v). 0 1 Bischoff (1960: 240, 242) suggested a Breton or Western Frankish origin for this MS on the basis of its insular-influenced script. Moreover, Bischoff (1977: 45) proposed to attribute a few insular corrections found in this codicological unit to the hand of Sedulius Scottus. Plausible as they may be, it is currently difficult to prove (or disprove) these suggestions. 3168 Bischoff 1960: 240 (n. 2), 242; Bischoff 1977: 45; McKitterick 2012: 326; [_MIrA_](http://www.mira.ie/280). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/89 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/89 13 180 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 89 181 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 89 40 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich 3 https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0004/bsb00046515/images/index.html?seite=00001&l=de 90 MS Clm 14846 Whole MS (122 fols) IX ex. 876 900 Regensburg (Sankt-Emmeram) - Erchanbertus, Commentary to Donatus's _Ars Minor_ (1r-105v) - _Sortilegia_ containing materials in Old Irish and Old Breton (106r-121v). 1 1 The prognostics at fols 106–121 contain numerous words and phrases in Old Irish and in a Brittonic language (probably Old Breton). Although originally these vernacular elements were in all likelihood interlinear and/or marginal glosses, they were incorporated by the copyist(s) into the main text, where they are often highlighted by means of strokes written above the words in question. The vernacular materials are, moreover, heavily corrupt: as pointed out in _Thes_ II, xxvi, 'for the most part the Celtic words stand out of construction in the sentence; sometimes they are obviously misplaced.' There is thus no doubt that copyists working in a continental scriptorium, almost certainly in Germany (Erchanbertus's text contains glosses in Old High German), copied these materials—which they did not understand—from an older exemplar that had come, perhaps, from Brittany or from another Brittonic region (cf. Thurneysen 1885: 94). In turn, the Breton exemplar appears to have contained glosses copied from an even older Irish archetype of these _sortilegia per litteras_. This MS is an important but understudied witness; it is difficult not to agree with Lambert (1994: 103) when he points out that 'tout le document devrait être réétudié à fond.' Thankfully, new work on this MS has been recently undertaken by Dr Bernhard Bauer (NUI Maynooth). 3273 Bauer 2008: 148–9; Bischoff 1980: 246; Bronner 2017: 34; [_BStK Online_](https://glossen.germ-ling.uni-bamberg.de/bstk/616); _DGVB_ 7, 173–4; Lambert 1994: 103; Lemoine 1985: 291; [_MIrA_](http://www.mira.ie/089); _PMSB_ 302 (§51); Schrijver 2011: 11; _Thes_ II, xxv–xxvi, 236–7; Thurneysen 1885. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/90 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/90 13 5 182 Germany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 90 40 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich 2 11 https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0010/bsb00104066/images/index.html?seite=00001&l=de 91 MS Clm 18961 2nd C.U. (fols 25-46) IX 2/2 851 900 Tegernsee - Acephalous excerpts from Classical, Late Antique and patristic sources (Boethius, Philippus Presbyter, Augustine, _Dicta Candidi_, Calcidius, Seneca), concerning the Trinity and other theological-philosophical topics (25r-42r, 46v) - Theological dialogue, inc. _Tu qui dicis te scire uelle si Deus sit, dic mihi quid putas esse Deum si est_ (42r-46r). 0 0 In his _Katalog_ (_Kat._ §3313), Bischoff indicated Brittany as the area of origin of this MS. This conclusion was based on palaeographical evidence that had been discussed by the same scholar in an earlier publication (Bischoff 1960: 161f.), where he drew attention to the similarity between the MS in question and the Landévennec Gospels ([New York, Public Library, MS De Ricci 115](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/93)). This conclusion was accepted by Ineichen-Eder (1978: 192), who stressed the importance of the mixture of insular and continental palaeographical features in this MS. Pending a full demonstration of Bischoff's proposal, a Breton origin remains highly probable nonetheless. It is important to mention also that Ineichen-Eder (1978: 193) identified similarities between the contents of this MS and those of Munich, BS, Clm 6407 (written at Verona at the time of Pacificus and containing an important copy of the _Dicta Candidi_, a collection of excerpts possibly put together by Wizo, one of Alcuin's students), as well as Paris, BnF, Lat. 13953: in view of the strong connections between these contents and the circle of Alcuin, if Clm 18961 was indeed written in Brittany, its exemplar may well have come from Tours. For a detailed identification of the various excerpts occurring in this _florilegium_, cf. Ineichen-Eder 1987: 194–7 (and see also Marenbon 1981: 55–7). 3313 Bischoff 1960: 161, 228; Ineichen-Eder 1978; Marenbon 1981: 40, 55, 166–8; Smith 1992: 169 (n. 89). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/91 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/91 2 17 23 34 183 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:07:00.000000Z 91 40 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich 1 https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0004/bsb00045106/images/index.html?seite=00001&l=de 92 MS G. 28 Fragment (2 half folios) IX 2/4 826 850 Unknown Isidore, _Etymologiae_ (fragment). 1 0 This MS, which preserves three Old Breton glosses, is one of several _disiecta membra_ from a single codex that contained a glossed copy of Isidore's _Etymologiae_. For further details, cf. the entry for [Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, MS Memb. I 147](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/52) in the present Handlist. 1424 Fleuriot 1979: 198; Lambert 2018: 40; [_The Morgan Library and Museum_](https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/76963); _PMSB_ 302 (§52). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/92 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/92 31 17 184 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:07:12.000000Z 92 41 Pierpont Morgan Library New York 1 93 MS De Ricci 115 Whole MS (152 fols) IX 3/3 867 900 South-Western England (Winchester?) - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (1r-2v) - Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus (2v-3v) - Preface to the four Gospels (3v-4v) - Preface and capitula to Matthew's Gospel (4v-6v) - Canon tables (7r-12v) - Image of Christ surrounded by the symbols of the four Evangelists (13v) - Matthew's Gospel (14r-49v) - Mark's Gospel, preceded by preface and capitula (50r-71v) - Luke's Gospel, preceded by preface and capitula (72r-113v) - John's Gospel, preceded by preface and capitula (114r-143v) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (144r-151v). 0 1 This is the famous and important MS also known as 'Harkness Gospels' (from the name of the collector who donated it to the New York Public Library in 1928) or 'Landévennec Gospels'. It is probably one of the most intensively studied Breton manuscripts, the most detailed available analysis being still Morey, Rand and Kraeling 1931. That this Gospel-book was written at Landévennec is proven by three entries referring to Saint Winwaloe (3 March, 28 April, 13 May) in the _Capitulare evangeliorum_ at fols 144r–151v (cf. Morey, Rand and Kraeling 1931: 41–64; it should also be noted that Saint Samson of Dol—another major Breton saint—is mentioned at July 28). Moreover, the presence of a rich iconographic repertoire (especially the horse-headed representations of Saint Mark at fols 13v and 51v) has provided a benchmark against which other MSS could be evaluated, leading to the formation of the concept of a 'Landévennec group' of Gospel-books (cf. e.g. Crozet 1958: 184; Alexander 1985: 271; Lemoine 1994b), which includes, in addition to the present codex, the following MSS: [Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 85](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/18); [Boulogne-sur-Mer, BM, MS 8](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/27); [London, BL, Egerton 609](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/70); [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D.2.16](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/110); [Troyes, BM, MS 960](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/219). Like many other Breton MSS—especially Gospel-books—the 'Harkness Gospels' may have reached England at an early stage, probably already during the tenth century (Huglo 1985: 246; _ILLB_ Q229, p. 216–17). The script and the iconography present the mixture of insular and Carolingian features which is so typical of the manuscript production of Early Medieval Brittany (a feature which has been 'politicised', perhaps excessively, in Alexander 1985: 271, where the author describes the iconography of the 'Landévennec group' as a form of 'résistance culturelle consciente aux modes franques et aux prétentions franques de domination culturelle'; for a list of abbreviations—many of them insular—used in this MS, see Morey, Rand and Kraeling 1931: 12–14). A similar mixture also characterises the text and the liturgical practices for which this MS is a witness, with some features pointing to Britain and Ireland, and others pointing to Tours (cf. esp. Morey, Rand and Kraeling 1931: 16–35; Huglo 1985: 247; according to Chalker 1937: 209–10, the scribes may have been using an 'Alcuinic' as well as a 'Celtic' version of the Gospels, with the latter being used as 'the second-choice, "filler" text, since it was used less than the other (Alcuinic) type'). In particular, one of the closest cognates of the Harkness Gospels as to their text, but also in relation to palaeographical and iconographical aspects, may be [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D.2.16](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/110) (cf. Chalker 1937: 210–14; at p. 214 Chalker points out that these two MSS may descend 'from a common prototype'). Moreover, Lemoine (2004: 157–64) has drawn attention to specific similarities with the Bodmin Gospels ([London, BL, Add. 9381](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/66)), but only as far as the incipits, explicits, prefaces, capitula and iconography are concerned. Finally, this MS is also notable for the presence of Breton neumes written above Christ's cry from the cross (_Heli. heli. læma zabdani hoc est deus meus. deus meus ut quid me dereliquisti_) at fols 48r-v (Huglo 1985: 248–9, with facsimile at p. 252); however, since these neumes are additions, they cannot be dated precisely (Rankin 2018: 99; cf. also the interesting comments in Rankin 2012: 489, 'a later addition [in the Harkness Gospels] shows the writing of Breton neumes associated with an Insular text-hand of the mid or later tenth century: whether or not the book itself was ever in England, the neumes can be linked with a scribe trained in England'). 3625 Alexander 1985: 271–3; _ASM_ 623–4 (§866.5); Besseyre 2008: 12, 16–7; Chalker 1937; Crozet 1958: 184; Deuffic 1985a: 266–8; Deuffic 1985c: 25, 26, 29; Deuffic 2008: 112; Deuffic 2011: 65; _EBGB_ 10, 14; Guillotel 1985: _passim_; Hartzell 1981; Huglo 1985; _ILLB_ Q229 (pp. 216–18); Kerlouégan 1982b: 317; Kitzinger 2013b: 37–8; _L&S_ §962; Lebecq 2020: 94; Lemoine 1994b; Lemoine 2004: 155, 157–64; Lemoine 2005: 16–21; Lemoine 2008: 187, 192, 194–5, 198; McGurk 1987: 165 (n. 2), 189 (n. 54); Morey 1929; Morey, Rand and Kraeling 1931 (also containing numerous plates from this MS); _OHLP_ 257; _PMSB_ 303 (§53); Rankin 2012: 489; Rankin 2018: 99, 101, 150; Simon 1986: 127; Smith 1992: 169–70, 175 (n. 120); [_Wikipedia_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%C3%A9vennec_Group). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/93 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/93 1 185 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:55:19.000000Z 93 186 Landévennec Certainly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 185 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 93 42 Public Library New York 7 16 https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6a709e10-1cda-013b-b83f-0242ac110002 Complete facsimile avaible at 94 MS 72 (69) Whole MS (466 pp.) IX 801 900 Fleury (s. IX/X) - Bede, _In Lucae evangelium expositio_ (1-463) - Mass for Sexagesima Sunday, with added Breton neumes (464). 0 0 The liturgical section at p. 464 contains some added Breton neumes, but the MS was in all likelihood written at Orléans (_pace CMD_ VII, 211, where a Fleury origin is suggested) in the ninth century and reached the library of Fleury at a later stage (it was certainly there in the tenth century, cf. Ganz 2020: 240). 3678 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18010686); _CMD_ VII, 211; Ganz 2020: 240; _LF_ BF501; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 78–9. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/94 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/94 2 4 187 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:56:59.000000Z 94 188 Orléans Certainly 47°54'06.6"N 1°54'37.9"E coordinates for Orléans 47.901833 1.910528 187 2 2021-05-07T14:21:54.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 94 43 Médiathèque Orléans 2 16 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/COMMENTAIREDEBEDESURSLUCLIBRIIVVI--BEDE----28/id/745612/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0072/facette/T28 95 MS 73 (70) Whole MS (190 pp.) IX 2/4 826 850 Fleury - Ambrosius, _Expositio evangelii secundum Lucam_ (2-77) - Pelagius, _In defensione trium capitulorum_ (acephalous and incomplete) (78-189) Tenth-century marginal entries can be seen in various parts of the MS. 1 0 This ninth-century MS contains (pp. 65–6) a series of tenth-century marginal entries listing some Breton names (Breton monks at Fleury?). Moreover, added Breton neumes can be seen in the internal margin of p. 176 above the words _iubeas conlocari_ (written sideways). 3679 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18010691); _CMD_ VII, 569; _DGVB_ 7; _LF_ BF502 and BF503; Pellegrin 1988: 259, 352–3; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 79–80; _PMSB_ 303 (§54); Riché 2004: 20; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 101). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/95 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/95 2 34 189 Eastern Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 95 190 Western Alemannia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 95 43 Médiathèque Orléans 2 16 24 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/SAMBROISESURSLUCETTRAITEDUDIACREPELAGE--AMBROISESAINT----28/id/745617/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0073/facette/T28 96 MS 168 (145) Whole MS (112 pp.) IX 3/3 867 900 Fleury - Eucherius of Lyon, _Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae_ (1-35) - Eucherius of Lyon, _Instructiones_ (35-105) - Salvianus of Marseille, _Epistola VIII ad Eucherium_ (105-106) - Hilary of Arles, _Epistola ad Eucherium_ (106) - _De ortu Melchisedech_ (106-107) - Jerome, _Tractatus LIX in psalmos_ (fragments) (107-108). 1 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §3709) attributed this MS to Brittany, apparently on the basis of its script, its abbreviations, and its single Old Breton gloss at p. 101 (_bodou_, 'bird of prey', glossing Lat. _ardea_; the same Old Breton word is used to gloss Lat. _alies_ in [Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 182](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/97); cf. Bisagni 2018: 136). This attribution (which is adopted in Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 198) seems likely, although it remains to be fully demonstrated. In particular, one wonders whether we can entirely rule out that this MS was written by a Breton scribe working at Fleury (cf. _LF_ BF594). 3709 Bauer 2008: 149; Bisagni 2018: 136; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18011240); Deuffic 2008: 129 (n. 230); _DGVB_ 6; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/2970/8046); Lemoine 1985: 290; _LF_ BF594; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 198–9; _PMSB_ 303 (§55); Riché 2004: 20. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/96 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/96 2 34 191 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:07:39.000000Z 96 43 Médiathèque Orléans 1 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/OUVRAGESDESAINTEUCHER--EUCHERSAINT----28/id/746166/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0168/facette/T28 97 MS 182 (159) Fols 242-317 IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Fleury - _Glossae in Vetus et Nouum Testamentum_ (pp. 242–73, 274–301, 306–9, 316–17) - Adrevald, _De benedictionibus patriarcharum_ (incomplete) (p. 273) - Bede, _Nomina regionum atque locorum de Actibus apostolorum_ (incomplete) (pp. 301–5) - _Glossae in epistolam Hieronymi ad Paulinum_ (_Ep._ 53) (pp. 309–13) - _Glossae in bibliae praefationes Hieronymi_ (pp. 312–13, 314–16) - Jerome, _Epistola ad Marcellam_ (_Ep._ 59, incomplete) (pp. 313–14). 1 1 This manuscript appears in a miscellaneous Fleury codex, bound together in the twelfth century according to Mostert (_LF_ BF0627); however, Pellegrin and Bouhot describe the binding as incomplete and date all existing evidence to the seventeenth century (Pellegrin _et al._ 2010: 216). Bischoff (_Kat._ §3717) dated the manuscript to between the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth centuries, as does Deuffic (_PMSB_ 303, §56). Mostert (_LF_ BF0627) and Pellegrin _et al._ (2010: 216) allocate it a tenth century date. The origin of the manuscript is uncertain. Bischoff locates it broadly in Western France. Mostert repeats, though with a question mark, Carey’s (1923: 45) identification, without discussion, of the manuscript’s origin as Fleury. The manuscript contains six Old Breton glosses, of which three are embedded in the main text, one is interlinear, and two are incorporated into exegetical material added in the margins by another, possibly later hand ( _DGVB_ 6; Bisagni 2018). That the vernacular glosses embedded in the main text belonged to the archetype is evidenced by their inclusion in a twelfth-century copy of the same text in [Rheims BM 395 (E. 278)](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/183) (fols 114r–155v), a copy that does _not_ derive directly from Orléans 182. In addition to the Breton role in the creation of the archetype, the supplementary layers of Breton glosses suggest the continued location of the manuscript in a Breton centre, or in a centre with Breton scribes. Furthermore, palaeographical features include those respectively classified as insular and continental. This includes the use of the distinctly insular abbreviations for _autem_ and _enim_, both of which are on occasion glossed by a distinct annotating hand using more widespread continental abbreviations. Numerous other abbreviations and letter-forms are also regularly corrected or clarified by the annotating hand. A lacuna in the manuscript is preceded by the opening lines of the commentary on Genesis 49 by Adrevald of Fleury (fl. 850–875; cf. Wilmart 1920), entitled _De benedictionibus patriarcharum_ (_PL_ 20.715–32). The inclusion of this work in the archetype of the manuscript is confirmed by its presence in full in Rheims 395. This is of some significance as few early manuscripts of _De benedictionibus_ survive (cf. Jullien _et al._ 1994–2015, vol. 1, pp. 37–8). The manuscript contains Fleury _ex libris_ notes of uncertain date (pp. 303-4), as part of what appears to be a _probatio pennae_. Bisagni (2018: 147–9) also identifies evidence of insular influences on the compilation, comprising three Old English glosses in the main body of the text, as well as textual affinities with two Hiberno-Latin commentaries on Donatus's _Ars Maior_: the anonymous _Ars Laureshamensis_ and _In Donati Artem Maiorem_ by Murethach of Auxerre. 3717 Bauer 2008: 150; Bisagni 2018; Corrigan 2022; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 216–19; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18011297); _CMD_ VII, 227; _DGVB_ 6; Jullien _et al._ 1994–2015, vol. 1, pp. 37–8; Lemoine 1985: 290; _LF_ BF0627; _PMSB_ 303 (§56); Riché 2004: 20–1. 1 Sarah Corrigan 23-01-2023 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/97 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/97 2 17 192 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:58:32.000000Z 97 193 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:58:32.000000Z 97 194 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 193 3 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 97 43 Médiathèque Orléans 3 14 15 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/DIALOGUESDESAINTGREGOIREADREVALDVERSDANSELECOLATREDEFLEURYSERMONSDIVERS--ADREVALD----28/id/746223/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0182/facette/T28 98 MS 192 (169) 15th C.U. (fols 42-43) IX ex. 876 900 Fleury - Chrodegang of Metz, _Regula canonicorum_ (42r-v) - Halitgar of Cambrai, _Liber poenitentialis_ (43r) - Empty folio (43v). 0 0 Bischoff's geographical attribution reads as follows (_Kat._ §3724): 'Westfrankreich (unter bretonischem Einfluß?).' Unfortunately, no details are provided as to the precise nature of this 'Breton influence.' Deuffic states (on the basis of information obtained from Bischoff) that these folios 'sont d'origine bretonne' (_PMSB_ 304, §57), but again no justification is given. 3724 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18011385); Ganz 2020: 236; _LF_ BF665; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 238–45; _PMSB_ 304 (§57); Riché 2004: 21. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/98 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/98 35 10 195 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 98 196 Western Francia (near Brittany) Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 98 43 Médiathèque Orléans 3 9 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/FRAGMENTSDESAINTSPERES--PERESDELEGLISE----28/id/746311/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0192/facette/T28 99 MS 221 (193) Whole MS (212 pp.) IX med. 825 875 Fleury - _Liber ex lege Moysi_ (1-16) - Texts on world chronology (16) - Excerpt from Cassian's _Collationes_ (16-19) - Texts on the ages of the world, inc. _Ab Adam usque ad Ninum_, and containing a rare reference to Sulpicius Severus's chronology (19) - Excerpts on divorce from the Shepherd of Hermas, Matthew, Paul, Mosaic Law, etc. (19-21) - _Virtutes quas Dominus dominica die fecit_, or _Epistil Ísu_ (21-22) - An earlier scribe's subscription, also found in [Paris, BnF, Lat. 3182](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/134) and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151) (22) - Commentary on Matthew, 11:29 (22-23) - _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, recension A (23-206) - _Excerpta de libris Romanorum et Francorum_ (also known as _Canones Wallici_) (206-212) - Colophon containing the Breton name _Iunobrus_ (212) - _Canones Adomnani_ (beginning only) (212). 1 1 Opinions in relation to the date of this MS vary considerably (see the brief overview of this question in Dumville 1994: 94, n. 44): the one indicated here is taken from Bischoff, _Kat._ §3727, as it seems to represent a good compromise (although note the dating 'saec. IX in.' in Bischoff 1974: 145, and 'IXe s., 1re moitié' in Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 304; cf. also Lemoine 2001: 261, 'le manuscrit d'Orléans ne devrait pas être antérieur aux années 850'). With its 332 ninth-century vernacular glosses (many of which are abbreviated), this MS is one of the most significant sources of information on the Old Breton language. At least some of these glosses were certainly copied from an exemplar, as shown by the fact that they are shared with other MSS (cf. Lambert 2018: 22); in particular, Lambert (2020: 67–71) has recently shown that Orléans 221 preserves a few corrupt Old Irish glosses. It is also notable that numerous Old Breton glosses are heavily abbreviated, sometimes even abridged; for this reason, while most scholars seem to accept that this MS was written in Brittany, Lambert (2018: 23) suggests instead that it may have been copied by Breton scribes working at Fleury. Indeed, Orléans 221 was written by several scribes, and one of them had the plainly Breton name _Iunobrus_, as revealed by the partially 'Hisperic' colophon at p. 212 (_Iunobrus scripsit_ etc.; cf. Lemoine 2001: 262). In general, the script—described as 'half Insular, half continental' by Lindsay (1912: 265; cf. also _OHLP_ 257)—is remarkably similar to that of the Welsh Juvencus MS (Cambridge, University Library, Ff.4.42), which may have been penned by an Irish scribe named Núadu. The repertory of insular abbreviations used in Orléans 221 is particularly rich, and it includes the strong Breton diagnostic _ɔ-c_ for _contra_ (cf. Lemoine 1985: 14–16; Lemoine 2008: 190–1). As for the contents of Orléans 221 (whose list presented here is based on Flechner 2019: I, 127), the version of the _Canones Hibernenses_ found therein (recension A) is close to the other principal Breton copies of this text (cf. Bieler 1963: 21–2; Flechner 2019: I, 125). In particular, as is pointed out in Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 305, 'le contenu de ce manuscrit est identique à celui de [Paris, BnF, lat. 3182](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/134), p. 1–164'. Neumes occur on fols 1 and 212. 3727 Bauer 2008: 150–72; Bauer 2017: _passim_ (esp. pp. 35–6); Bieler 1963: 12, 21–2; Bischoff 1974: 145 (§39); Bischoff 1990: 117; Bischoff 1994: 30; Bradshaw 1889: 412, 414–15, 482, 487; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18011848); _CGM_ 12: 114–15; _CLH_ 761 (§587), 789 (§620), 790 (§621); _CMD_ VII, 491; Deuffic 2008: 128, 129 (n. 230), 136 (n. 268, 'VIII-IXe s.'); _DGVB_ 4; Dumville 1994: 89, 94; Dumville 2005: 52, 60; Flechner 2008: 28–30; Flechner 2019: I, 125–8; Fleuriot 1985: 67; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/2994/8073); Lambert 2018: 17, 22–3; Lambert 2020: 66–71; _L&S_ §903; Lemoine 1985: 13–16, 287; Lemoine 2001: 261–2, 264–5; Lemoine 2008: 187, 190; Lindsay 1912: 265; _LF_ BF697; Meeder 2009: 182–4; _OHLP_ 257; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 304–8; _PMSB_ 304 (§58); Riché 2004: 21; Schrijver 2011: 9; Smith 1992: 167 (n. 81), 168 (n. 83); Stokes 1880; Stokes 1887. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/99 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99 25 10 2 197 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:26:04.000000Z 99 198 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:59:29.000000Z 99 199 Loire Valley Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:59:29.000000Z 99 200 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 199 4 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 99 43 Médiathèque Orléans 1 8 15 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/RECUEILDANCIENSCANONS------28/id/746774/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/anciens+canons 100 MS 261 (217) {A} Section 4, unit (A) (pp. 42-73) IX ex. (AD 884-900) 884 900 Fleury Wrmonocus, _Vita prima sancti Pauli Aureliani_ (42-73). 1 0 The Orléans codex 261 is composed of five sections. The only section relevant here is the fourth (pp. 42–135), which in turn is constituted by two Breton codicological units of different date: unit (A), pp. 42–73 (= A1 in Kerlouégans 1992 and Poulin 2009), and unit (B), pp. 74–135 (= A2 in Kerlouégan 1992 and Poulin 2009). The present entry concerns unit (A), which contains an abridged version of Wrmonocus's Life of Saint Paul Aurelian and may have been written at Landévennec shortly after AD 884 (when Wrmonocus completed his _Vita_). Both units (A and B) were probably brought to Fleury by Mabbo, Bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, around AD 960 (cf. _LF_ BF715; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 329–30). Mostert (_LF_ BF715) and Pellegrin and Bouhot (2010: 328) draw attention to the insular ruling and pricking techniques visible in this MS, pointing (in Mostert's view) to an origin in the scriptorium of Landévennec (in relation to this matter cf. also _CMD_ VII, 492). 3732 Bauer 2008: 191–2; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18011962); _CMD_ VII, 492; Kerlouégan 1982b: 318; Kerlouégan 1992; _L&S_ §828; Lemoine 1994a: 107–8; _LF_ BF715; Pellegrin 1988: 209, 247; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 328–31; _PMSB_ 304 (§59); Poulin 2009: 268–71, 299; Riché 2004: 19. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/100 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/100 11 201 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:59:46.000000Z 100 202 Landévennec Possibly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 201 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 100 43 Médiathèque Orléans 7 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/OUVRAGESDEPSEUDOMELITONDEMARTIANUSCAPELLACOMMENTAIRESSURLANCIENTESTAMENTETVIE--PSEUDOMELITON----28/id/746884/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0261/facette/T28 101 MS 261 (217) {B} Section 4, unit (B) (pp. 74-135) X med. 925 975 Fleury - Wrmonocus, _Vita prima sancti Pauli Aureliani_ (complementing Orléans 261, pp. 42-73) (74-134) - John the Deacon, _Vita sancti Gregorii Magni_ (added excerpt) (135). 1 0 The Orléans codex 261 is composed of five sections. The only section relevant here is the fourth (pp. 42–135), which in turn is constituted by two Breton codicological units of different date: unit (A), pp. 42–73, and unit (B), pp. 74–135. The present entry concerns unit (B). This unit complements the abridged contents of (A) and was probably written some time after the writing of the latter (for an alternative view, see Poulin 2009: 270). Concerning the relationship between the contents of (A) and (B), Poulin (2009: 270) says: 'Ces deux entités codicologiques contiennent en fait ce qu’on pourrait être tenté de considérer comme deux versions de la Vie de Paul Aurélien; elles ont d’abord connu une existence séparée, avant d’être réunies dans leur position actuelle. [...] Une Vie longue fut coupée en morceaux et remontée en deux textes séparés, dont la longueur varie du simple au double, mais dont aucun n’est vraiment cohérent.' The passage from the Life of Gregory the Great occurring on p. 135 was added at Fleury during the second half of the tenth century or at the beginning of the eleventh, after that units A and B were brought to the Frankish abbey by Mabbo, Bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon. For an edition of the parallel Old Breton and Latin glosses occurring in Orléans 261 (both A and B) and [Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 12942](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/153), see Poulin 2009: 298–9. 3732 Bauer 2008: 191–2; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18011962); _CMD_ VII, 492; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3001/8080); Deuffic 2008: 129 (n. 230); Guillotel 1982: 280 (the MS is erroneously cited under the shelfmark '262'); Kerlouégan 1982b: 318; Kerlouégan 1992; Lambert 2018: 17; _L&S_ §828; Lemoine 1994a: 107–8; _LF_ BF716; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 328–31; _PMSB_ 304 (§59); Poulin 2009: 268–71, 298–9; Riché 2004: 21; Vidier 1965: 101–2. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/101 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/101 11 203 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T14:59:58.000000Z 101 204 Landévennec Possibly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 203 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 101 43 Médiathèque Orléans 7 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/OUVRAGESDEPSEUDOMELITONDEMARTIANUSCAPELLACOMMENTAIRESSURLANCIENTESTAMENTETVIE--PSEUDOMELITON----28/id/746884/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0261/facette/T28 102 MS 263 (219) 1st C.U. (pp. 1-36) IX in. 801 825 Fleury Alcuin, _De dialectica_. 0 0 Bischoff's geographical ascription of this section of Orléans 263 (a codicological unit constituted by two quires, one of eight folios and one of ten, continuing in Paris, BnF, Lat. 6683 according to Riché 2004: 21) simply states 'Wahrscheinlich Bretagne' (_Kat._ §3733, accepted in Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 333 and Ganz 2020: 238), a view presumably based on the script and the abbreviations. Other scholars, however, are more inclined to think that this copy of Alcuin's _De dialectica_ was written at Fleury (cf. _CMD_ VII, 493; Marenbon 1981: 178; _LF_ BF719). Moreover, Mostert (_LF_ BF719, based on _CMD_ VII, 493) points out that 'the script shows Italian (Beneventan?) influence' (cf. also _CMD_ VII, 493), suggesting a possible comparison with Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 45 (42), probably written at Fleury in the second half of the ninth century (_LF_ BF460; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 46–7). A fresh palaeographical assessment of this MS is clearly a desideratum. 3733 Carey 1923: 48; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18011981); _CMD_ VII, 493; Ganz 2020: 238; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3002/8082); _LF_ BF719; Marenbon 1981: 178; Pellegrin 1988: 268–9; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 333–7; _PMSB_ 304–5 (§60); Riché 2004: 21. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/102 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/102 23 15 205 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:00:20.000000Z 102 206 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:00:20.000000Z 102 207 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 206 3 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 102 43 Médiathèque Orléans 3 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/TRAITESDEDIALECTIQUE------28/id/746903/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0263/facette/T28 103 MS 276 (232) 2nd C.U. (pp. 67-130) XI 1001 1100 Fleury - Alcuin, _De uirtutibus et uitiis_ (67-127) - _Probatio pennae_ (128) - Apuleian Sphere, also known as _Sphere of Life and Death_ (diagram only) (129) - Empty page (130). 0 0 Deuffic (_PMSB_ 305, §61) argues that this MS is 'sans doute d'origine bretonne', and that it contains at p. 129 astrological drawings similar to those in [Paris, BnF, NAL 1616](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/170). In fact, this is simply a copy of the 'Apuleian Sphere', a prognostic text found in numerous Early Medieval witnesses, some of which were written and/or preserved at Fleury (cf. Juste 2004: 113, n. 40). I am not aware of any specific evidence associating the second codicological unit of Orléans 276 with Brittany, and it seems more likely that this MS was rather written at Fleury in the (late?) eleventh century. n/a [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18012107); Juste 2004: 113 (n. 40); _LF_ BF746; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 361–3; _PMSB_ 305 (§61); Wickersheimer 1914: 171. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/103 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/103 5 34 208 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:00:34.000000Z 103 209 Fleury Certainly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 208 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 103 43 Médiathèque Orléans 4 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/TRAITESDEBOECEETALCUINDESVERTUSETDESVICES--ALCUIN----28/id/747028/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0276 104 MS 302 (255) 1st C.U. (pp. 1-82) IX in. 801 825 Fleury - Sedulius, _Carmen Paschale_ with glosses (1-32, 35-81) - Sedulius, Hymn I, lines 1-73, inc. _Cantemus socii cantemus honorem_ (82, 33-34). 1 0 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](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), 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). 3740 Bauer 2008: 173–4; Bischoff 1990: 90 (n. 44); Bischoff 1994: 30; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18012301); Deuffic 2008: 128; _DGVB_ 4; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3017/8098); 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. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/104 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/104 21 28 210 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:08:42.000000Z 104 43 Médiathèque Orléans 1 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/OUVRAGESDESEDULIUSETDEBEDE--BEDE----28/id/747220/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/MS+0302/facette/T28 105 MS 322 (273) 2nd C.U. (pp. 9-266) AD 1002–1004 1002 1004 Fleury - _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). 0 0 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_. n/a [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18012475); _CMD_ VII, 243; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3027/8108); _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). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/105 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/105 6 4 36 211 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:00:56.000000Z 105 212 Fleury Certainly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 211 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 105 43 Médiathèque Orléans 2 25 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/CALENDRIERMARTYROLOGEDUSUARDALUSAGEDEFLEURYETREGLEDESBENOIT--SBENOIT----28/id/747393/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/ms+0322/facette/T28 106 MS 340 (288) Whole MS (174 pp.) IX ex. 876 900 Fleury - John the Deacon, _Vita sancti Gregorii Magni_ (acephalous, lacunose and incomplete) (1-174) - 11th-century additions with neumes from Fleury (81, 93). 0 0 In _Kat._ §3745, Bischoff ascribes this MS to a West-Frankish scriptorium, 'vielleicht unter bretonischem Einfluß'—apparently a reappraisal of Bischoff's earlier view of Orléans 340 as a Breton MS (as reported in _PMSB_ 306 and _LF_ BF853). The MS is assigned a generic attribution to Western Francia also in Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 488 and Ganz 2020: 241, with no further mention of any Breton 'influence'. 3745 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18012696); Ganz 2020: 241; _LF_ BF853; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 488; _PMSB_ 306 (§63); Riché 2004: 22. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/106 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/106 11 213 Western Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 106 43 Médiathèque Orléans 4 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/JEANDIACREVIEDESGREGOIRE--JOHANNESDIACONUSROMANUS----28/id/747613/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/ms+0340/facette/T28 107 MS 343 (291) 2nd C.U. (pp. 95-110) X 1/2 or XI 951 1100 Fleury _Vita prima sancti Lenoveri abbatis_ (acephalous and incomplete). 0 0 The origin of this codicological unit is unclear, and no specific location is indicated in Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 499. Deuffic included it in his _PMSB_ 306 (§64), but with no details as to its possible origin. A Breton origin was proposed by Van der Straeten (1982: 20, 74; cf. also Merdrignac and Carré 1991: 13–14), mostly on the basis of the manuscript's contents, but a possible Fleury origin is suggested in Carey 1923: 53 and _CMD_ VII, 571 ('Ce recueil assez disparate, en mauvais état, provient de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Loiret), où ses divers fragments ont peut-être été copiés'). The dating is likewise controversial (cf. Poulin 2009: 121–2). A fresh palaeographical assessment is necessary. n/a Carey 1923: 53; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D18012761); _CMD_ VII, 571; _LF_ BF863; Merdrignac and Carré 1991: 13–14; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 499–500; _PMSB_ 306 (§64); Poulin 2009: 121–4; Van der Straeten 1982: 20, 73–4. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/107 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/107 11 214 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:01:25.000000Z 107 215 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:01:25.000000Z 107 216 Loire Valley Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:01:25.000000Z 107 217 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 216 4 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 107 43 Médiathèque Orléans 3 https://mediatheques.orleans.fr/recherche/viewnotice/clef/VIESDESAINTSISAGOGESDEPORPHYREETEPIGRAMMESDESPROSPER--PORPHYRIUS----28/id/747678/tri/%2A/expressionRecherche/ms+0343/facette/T28 108 MS 2036 Whole MS (78 fols) XI ex. 1076 1100 Locmaria (Quimper) Bede, _In Marci evangelium expositio_. 0 0 The catalogue description on the website of the Schøyen Collection points out that this MS is written in 'early Romanesque script with many insular features.' Until the sixteenth century this MS was preserved in the library of the monastery of Locmaria (at Quimper), and it may well have been written there in the eleventh century. n/a _ILLB_ Q235; [_The Schøyen Collection_](https://www.schoyencollection.com/patristic-literature-collection/ms-2036). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 22-04-2020 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/108 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/108 2 218 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:01:45.000000Z 108 219 Locmaria Possibly 47°17'38.1"N 3°04'53.9"W coordinates for Notre-Dame de Locmaria (Quimper) 47.988234 -4.112285 218 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-03T08:35:20.000000Z 108 44 Schøyen Collection Oslo 7 https://www.schoyencollection.com/patristic-literature-collection/ms-2036 One folio can be seen at 109 MS Add. C.153 (S.C. 28493) Whole MS (172 fols) X 1/2 901 950 Abbey of Aulne-sur-Sambre (?) - The four Gospels (beginning respectively at fols 1r, 49v, 85r, 131r), each preceded by prefaces and capitula (acephalous) (1r-159v) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (160r-172v). 0 0 This MS was included by Fleuriot in his list of Breton Gospel-books (Fleuriot 1983: 104). While the decoration of Gospel-initials (fols 1r, 80r, 85r) does seem to be heavily influenced by insular models (cf. especially [Paris, BnF, Lat. 264](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/127); these two Gospel-books are described as 'related' in _EBGB_ 13, n. 1), the question of the origin of this codex should nevertheless be re-examined from the textual and palaeographical points of view. n/a _EBGB_ 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_118); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 283, 289. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/109 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/109 1 220 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:02:54.000000Z 109 221 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:02:54.000000Z 109 222 Tours Possibly 47°23'35.6"N 0°40'57.1"E coordinates for Tours]#50°21'56.4"N 4°19'54.5"E [coordinates for the abbey of Aulne-sur-Sambre] 47.393222 0.682528 221 3 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 109 223 North-Eastern Francia Possibly 4 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:02:54.000000Z 109 224 Aulne-sur-Sambre Possibly 50°21'56.4"N 4°19'54.5"E coordinates for the abbey of Aulne-sur-Sambre 50.365667 4.331806 223 5 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 109 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 3 https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/5aed6eb7-8b54-46f7-9e75-7db9e8f32bce Two images are available at 110 MS Auct. D.2.16 (S.C. 2719) Whole MS (198 fols) X 1/2 901 950 Exeter - Eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon additions (1r-2v, 6v, 8r-14r) - Jerome, Preface to the four Gospels (16r-17v) - Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus (17v-18v) - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (18v-20r) - Preface and capitula to Matthew's Gospel (20r-22r) - Ailerán, Poem on the Gospel canons, inc. _Quam in primo speciosa quadriga_ (22v) - Canon tables (23r-28r) - Portrait of Saint Matthew (28v) - Gospel of Matthew (with added neumes at fols 29r-30r) (29r-69r) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by capitula and preface, and with portraits of Mark at fols 71v and 72v (added) (69v-98r) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by capitula and preface, and with a portrait of Luke at fol. 102v (98r-144r) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula, with an added portrait of John at fol. 146r (144r-178r) - _Capitulare_ (178r-190r) - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (190r-v) - Instruction concerning the canon tables, titled _De Xmo canonae_ (190v). 0 1 This MS belongs to the so-called 'Landévennec group' of Gospel-books (for this concept, cf. the entry for [New York, Public Library, MS De Ricci 115](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/93), i.e. the so-called 'Harkness Gospels'). It is also known as 'Leofric Gospels' (not to be confused with the so-called 'Leofric Missal', i.e. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 579), as it was in the possession of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Leofric, at Exeter, in the late eleventh century (Deuffic 1985a: 270), as shown by additions written on fols 1r–2v, 6v, and 8r–14r (Ker 1957: 351); moreover, Temple (1976: 78) argued that a liturgical list in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 155 (dated to the early eleventh century) may have been copied from this manuscript. The attribution to Landévennec is based on the mention of the three feast-days associated with Saint Winwaloe (3 March, 28 April, 13 May) in the _Capitulare_ at fols 178r–190r; the same mentions occur also in the 'Harkness Gospels', and this is probably not a coincidence, given that these two Gospel-books are close to each other also from the textual point of view (cf. Chalker 1937: 210–4). However, the occurrence of the orthography _Guingualoi_ (rather than earlier _Uuinualoi_) in the entry for 13 May in the Oxford Gospel-book (fol. 183v) suggests that this MS is somewhat later than the codex now in New York (as pointed out in Deuffic 1985a: 268). It is also worth pointing out that, as has been shown by Barbet-Massin (2013: 370), a copy of the poem on the Gospel canons attributed to the Irish exegete Ailerán (inc. _Quam in primo speciosa quadriga . homo leo uitulus et aquila_) occurs at fol. 22v. n/a Alexander 1985; _ASM_ 423–4 (§530); Barbet-Massin 2013: 370, 444; Besseyre 2008: 12; Chalker 1937; Crozet 1958: 184–5; Deuffic 1985a: 268–70; Deuffic 1985c: 26, 29, 30; _EBGB_ 14, 17; Fleuriot 1983: 104; Guillotel 1985: 12, 23; _ILLB_ Q229 (p. 219–21); Ker 1957: 351 (§291); Kerlouégan 1982b: 317; Kitzinger 2013b: 36–7; _L&S_ §965; Lapidge 2005: 139; Lebecq 2020: 94; Lemoine 1994b; Lemoine 2004: 157–64; Lemoine 2005: 16–19; Lemoine 2008: 192–3, 198; McGurk 1987: 165 (n. 2); [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_428); _OHLP_ 229, 232, 257; Pächt and Alexander 1966–73: I, §427; _PMSB_ 306–7 (§65); Smith 1992: 175 (n. 120); Temple 1976: 78; [_Wikipedia_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%C3%A9vennec_Group). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/110 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/110 1 225 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:03:07.000000Z 110 226 Landévennec Certainly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 225 2 2021-05-07T14:21:55.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 110 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 7 https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/efefd4fe-1d88-4c03-8383-a46865d0660b 111 MS Auct. D.5.3 (S.C. 27688) Whole MS (105 fols) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 England A copy of the Gospels of Matthew (acephalous), Mark (complete) and Luke (incomplete), with prefaces. 0 0 The English provenance of this Gospel-book is indicated by the addition of several Old English glosses, dating probably from the tenth century (Ker 1957: 353). According to Bischoff, a Breton origin is likely (_Kat._ §3770; cf. also Pächt and Alexander 1966–73: I, §424; Ganz in _OHLP_ 257). However, pending a detailed palaeographical and textual analysis, this attribution remains to be confirmed. 3770 _ASM_ 426 (§532); _EBGB_ 13; Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In20; Ker 1957: 353 (§293); Lemoine 2005: 17; McGurk 1987: 166 (n. 2); [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_494); _OHLP_ 257; Pächt and Alexander 1966–73: I, §424; _PMSB_ 307 (§66); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 290. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/111 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/111 1 227 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 111 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 3 112 MS Auct. F.4.26 (S.C. 8868) Fragment (fly-leaf) IX 2/4 826 850 Unknown Fragment from a ninth-century Antiphonary. 0 0 This important fragment is the fly-leaf of a thirteenth-century MS containing Ovid's _Fasti_. The fragment in question comes from a small antiphonary, dating probably from the ninth century (second third according to _Kat._ §3773; second quarter according to Rankin 2018: 101). The possible attribution to Brittany is based on the presence of Breton neumes—this fragment is indeed one of the earliest known examples of neumatic notation _tout court_ (cf. Deuffic 2011: 71; Rankin 2018: 50, 151). However, we now know that the presence of this type of musical notation in ninth-century MSS can be taken at best as an indication of an origin somewhere in Western Francia, especially in the region west of Tours, including Brittany (cf. Rankin 2018: 99). 3773 Deuffic 2011: 71; Huglo 1963: 67; _ILLB_ In2; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_668); _PMSB_ 307 (§67); Rankin 2018: 36 (n. 140), 50, 99, 101, 151–2, 355 (plate of fol. 1). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/112 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/112 4 228 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 112 229 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 112 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 3 16 113 MS Auct. F.4.32 (S.C. 2176) 1st C.U. (fols 1-9) IX 2/4 (c. AD 850) 826 850 - Wales - Glastonbury. - Full-page drawing of Christ, with Saint Dunstan at his feet and distich by Dunstan (all added in England) (1r) - _Accessus_ to Eutyches, _Ars de uerbo_, with the title _In honomate sumitonantis . ars Euticis gramatici_ (plus a distich by Eugenius of Toledo, added in England) (1v) - Eutyches, _Ars de uerbo_ (incomplete), with interlinear and marginal scholia in Latin and Old Breton (2r-9v). 1 1 This famous MS, also known as 'Saint Dunstan's Classbook' and _Codex Oxoniensis prior_, is constituted by four codicological units: only the first one (fols 1–9) is of immediate interest in the present context. Bischoff's _Katalog_ (_Kat._ §3774) attributes these folios to 'Bretagne, unter Tours-Einfluß.' The Breton origin of this codicological unit is not in doubt. Although written in Caroline minuscule, numerous insular abbreviations can be found herein, especially in the marginal scholia; in particular, the Breton diagnostic _ɔ-c_ for _contra_ can be found in several glosses: e.g., in a gloss occurring on fol. 2r (right margin), the preposition _contra_ appears to be used in the phrase _iungitur contra genitiuum_ as an equivalent of Old Breton _gurth_ (as suggested in Lemoine 1989: 154)—although the same equivalence could admittedly apply also to the Old Irish preposition _fri_ (for the use of this and other specific insular abbreviations in this MS, see Lindsay 1912: 272; Lemoine 1985: 39–41; Lemoine 1989: 146; Lemoine 1992: 144–7; for the sign _ɔ-c_ see also the entry for [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.1263](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/202)). In addition to the Latin glosses, this codicological unit of the _Codex Oxoniensis prior_ contains 58 glosses in Old Breton (cf. Stokes 1860–1: 232–4; _DGVB_ 5; for the importance of these glosses for the recognition of Old Breton as a distinct Brittonic language in the late nineteenth century, see Lambert 2018: 3–7). Finally, another convincing proof of Breton origin can be found at fol. 1v, where the title of the _accessus_ to Eutyches's _Ars de uerbo_ contains the remarkable Hellenizing phrase _In honomate sumitonantis_: this is a strong Breton diagnostic feature, being found _only_ in MSS from Brittany or anyway strongly associated with that country, namely [Angers, BM, MS 24](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/5); [Luxembourg, BN, MS 89](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/83); [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138) (cf. also the phrase _En onoma Christi incipit paruum experimentum de luna_, occurring as the title of a heavily Irish-influenced series of computistical texts at fol. 22r of Auct. F.4.32, i.e. in the 'Welsh' section of this MS; for discussions of this striking phrase, see Lemoine 1989: 147; Lemoine 1995: 11–13). It should also be mentioned that the contents of the scholia to Eutyches's _Ars de uerbo_ in this MS appear to be related to the commentary on the same work elaborated in the circle of Remigius of Auxerre possibly on the basis of an Irish model (cf. Jeudy 1974: 430 and 1978: 240); it is perhaps not impossible that the Breton scholia likewise derived from a line of transmission going back to Ireland and 'crossing' the Irish tradition of glossing on Priscian's _Institutiones grammaticae_ (cf. Lemoine 1989: 148–54). This Breton copy of Eutyches must have reached Wales by the middle of the tenth century, and from there it was soon moved to Glastonbury (where it came into the possession of Saint Dunstan), being gradually joint to the other codicological units that eventually constituted 'Saint Dunstan's Classbook' (several of which also contain glosses in Old Welsh, as well as several annotations possibly by Saint Dunstan himself). 3774 _ASM_ 430–2 (§538); Bauer 2008: 174–8; Bischoff 1990: 90 (n. 44) (erroneously indicated as F.3.32); Bishop 1971: xx, 1; Bradshaw 1889: 412, 455–8, 487; _DGVB_ 5; Hunt 1961 (complete facsimile); [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0445 ); Jeudy 1974: 430; Jeudy 1978: 240; Ker 1957: 355 (§297); Lambert 2018: 3–7; Lapidge 2006: 73; Lemoine 1985: 38–41, 228–48, 289; Lemoine 1989; Lemoine 1992: 144–7; Lemoine 1995: 13 (n. 19); Lemoine 2008: 187–8; Lindsay 1912: 272; Lindsay 1912b: 7; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_675); _OHLP_ 221, 224–5; Pächt and Alexander 1966–73: I, §421; Paniagua 2018: 164–7; _PMSB_ 307 (§68); Rushforth 2012: 202; Schrijver 2011: 10; Simpson (McKee) in Falileyev and Owen 2005: 89; Simpson (McKee) 2012: 340–1; Smith 1992: 172 (n. 107); Stokes 1860–1: 232–4; Temple 1976: 12, 17, 35, 41 (§11), 42; [_The Calendar and the Cloister_](https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/ms-17/apparatus.php?page=related_manuscripts). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/113 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/113 13 22 230 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 113 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 7 https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/ea52de8a-239d-4426-9b04-755aaba19912 114 MS Bodley 155 (S.C. 1974) Whole MS (196 fols) X ex. / XI in. 976 1025 Barking Abbey - The four Gospels (beginning respectively at fols 1v, 58r, 94r, 147r), each preceded by prefaces and capitula (acephalous and lacunose) (1r-182r) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (182v-196r) - Added 11th- and 12th-century English records (196v). 0 0 The contents of this Gospel-book may have been copied _in toto_ or partially from a Breton MS possibly belonging to the 'Landévennec group' of Gospel-books, e.g. [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D.2.16](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/110), also known as 'Leofric Gospels' (cf. Temple 1976: 78; Pfaff 2009: 348). n/a _ASM_ §554; Ganz 2012: 195; Ker 1957: 357–8 (§303); Lemoine 2005: 15; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_1216); Pfaff 2009: 348; Temple 1976: 17, 20, 78 (§59). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/114 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/114 1 231 England Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:06:16.000000Z 114 232 Barking Certainly 51°32'09.5"N 0°04'30.8"E coordinates for Barking Abbey 51.535972 0.075222 231 2 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 114 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 2 11 https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/7c2ed8a1-566b-4da7-9cfd-96742b99f2d3 A few folios can be seen at 115 MS Bodley 314 (S.C. 2129) Fols ii-iii, 98, 99 (flyleaves) X 901 1000 Exeter Sacramentary. 0 0 In _ASM_ §567 this heavily damaged fragment retrieved from the binding of a later Exeter MS is attributed to Brittany. Gameson (1996: 152), on the other hand, only speaks of 'Continental origin.' n/a _ASM_ 444 (§567); Gameson 1996: 152–3; _ILLB_ In41; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_1360). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/115 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/115 4 233 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 115 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 3 116 MS Bodley 516 (S.C. 2570) 1st C.U. (fols 1-39) IX 3/4 851 875 - Brittany (s. X)? - Wales (s. X)? - England (s. XI) - Salisbury (s. XIV) - Augustine, _Epistula_ 147, _De videndo Deo_ (acephalous) (1r-19v) - Ambrose, _Epistula_ 14, _Ad Vercellensem ecclesiam_ (20r-39r). 1 0 The shelfmark 'Bodley 516' comprises two distinct codicological units that were bound together at an early stage, probably in eleventh-century England, as shown by the presence of an Old English cryptogram in the second unit at fol. 63v (cf. Hall and Norris 2011: 163). At fol. 9r (belonging to the first unit) the plainly Brittonic word _+ guoroithon +_ (probably a personal name) was added in the top margin in insular script. This could be Welsh, Cornish, or Breton, raising the possibility that this MS resided in an ecclesiastical library in one of these countries before it reached England (so, in all likelihood, sometime during the tenth century). As has been pointed out by Hall and Norris (2011: 163–4, n. 13), _guoroithon_ resembles the Welsh names _Guruthon_ and _Guruithon_, recorded in three Llandaff charters. However, this is not sufficient to exclude a Breton or Cornish explanation for _guoroithon_. For example, this word could contain the Old Breton prefixing element _guor-_ (cf. _DGVB_ 198); as for the second element, cf. perhaps Old Breton _gue(i)th_, 'fight' (_DGVB_ 189–90). 3786 _ASM_ 453–4 (§581); Elliot 2013: 107; Hall and Norris 2011: 161–4; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_1541). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/116 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/116 17 34 234 North-Eastern Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 116 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 2 26 117 MS Bodley 572 (S.C. 2026) 1st C.U. (fols 1-50) X 901 1000 - Wales (s. X ex.) - England (s. XI). - _Missa Germani episcopi_ (1r-v) - _Expositio missae_ (2r-13v) - Biblical book of Tobias (preceded by Jerome's preface), with Old Cornish glosses (14r-25v) - Augustine, _Epistula_ 130, _De orando Deo_ (26r-36r) - Caesarius of Arles, _Sermo_ 179, _De igne purgatorio_ (36v-39v) - Antiphons, benedictions, cryptograms and a computistical table (mostly added s. X ex. / XI) (39v-40v) - Runes, Runic alphabet, and an erased text, perhaps concerning the Harrowing of Hell (41r-v) - Scholastic colloquy _De raris fabulis_, with glosses in Latin, Old English, Old Cornish and Old Welsh (41v-47r) - Liturgical chants (added s. X / XI / XII) (47r-49v). 0 0 The first codicological unit of this MS (fols 1–50) is also known as _Codex Oxoniensis posterior_: its contents were produced over several decades in Cornish and Welsh scriptoria (indeed, four originally independent units constitute section 1r–50v). The relevance of this MS to Early Medieval Brittany is constituted by a Latin lexical peculiarity—a 'Hisperic' feature, we might say—exhibited by one of its scribes, the Cornishman Bledian (cf. _notarii Bledian_ and _Bledian scriptor_ at fols 36r and 39v), who used the verb _scrutari_ twice in the sense of 'reading' in the colophons he wrote at fols 36r and 39v. This linguistic feature has precise parallels in some Breton MSS: in particular, a colophon in [Cambridge, Corpus Christi, MS 192](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/32), fol. 97v, and a colophon in [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, MS Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192), fol. 107v (Lambert 2018: 6–7; Lemoine 1988: 234–6). The fact that the same peculiar usage of the verb _scrutari_ is shared by Cornish and Breton scribes is a small but precious indication of the strong intellectual links that existed between these two countries in the Early Middle Ages (however, consider also Lemoine 2010: 216, n. 7, where the author rejects his former characterisation of _scrutari_ for 'studying' as a Hisperic feature). n/a _ASM_ 455 (§583); Bradshaw 1889: 470–1, 486; Charles-Edwards 2012: 402–3; Ker 1957: 376–7 (§313); Lambert 2018: 6–7; Lemoine 1988: 234–5; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_1591); Schrijver 2011: 10; Simpson (McKee) in Falileyev and Owen 2005: 90; Simpson (McKee) 2012: 341; Simpson (McKee) 2012b: 170 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/117 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/117 24 37 2 4 17 235 Cornwall Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 117 236 Wales Certainly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 117 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 2 27 https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/3c2453ec-7b00-4655-ba7b-d9d1367b5b5b 118 MS Hatton 42 (4117) 1st C.U. (fols 1-142) IX 1/3 801 833 - Corbie? - Canterbury - Worcester - _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, recension B (1r-130r) - _Excerpta de libris Romanorum et Francorum_, also known as _Canones Wallici_ (130r-132v) - _Canones Adomnani_ (132v-133v) - Repetition of some chapters from the _Hibernensis_ (133v-134r) - Short text on weights and measures, followed by a short text on the names of the months _apud Macedones_ (134r-v) - Excerpts from Gaius, _Institutiones_ (134v-138r) - Tables, short legal tracts, excerpts from Isidore and the _Iudicia Theodori_ (138r-142v) 1 1 As pointed out by Flechner (2019: I, 133), this is one of the two complete surviving copies of recension B of the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_ (the other being Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, MS T. XVIII). Interestingly, the first quire (fols 1r-7v) is a replacement in English Caroline minuscule, written possibly at Canterbury; indeed, the MS had certainly reached England by the early eleventh century (cf. Flechner 2019, ibid.). The Breton name _Matguoret_ occurs in a marginal entry at fol. 22r (perhaps the scribe's name?), and this MS also contains six glosses in Old Breton. It is probable that Hatton 42 was written in Brittany, although it is also conceivable that it was written by a Breton scribe working elsewhere, for example in a centre of the Loire Valley. In any case, the contents clearly belong to the Breton manuscript tradition of the _Hibernensis_ and its associated texts: it is therefore virtually certain that at least the exemplar (or the ultimate archetype) of some of the texts in Hatton 42 came from Brittany. It should finally be pointed out that the fourth codicological unit too (fols 189r–204v), containing Ansegisus's Capitularies, may have been written in Brittany during the second half of the ninth century (according to the information provided on the _MMOL_ page for this MS). 3798 _ASM_ 479–80 (§629); Bauer 2008: 179; Bieler 1963: 13, 20–4; Bishop 1971: xxvi; Bradshaw 1889: 412 ('a _Hibernensis_ at Oxford'), 414, 471–3, 476, 480, 487; _CLH_ 764 (§592), 790 (§621); Deuffic 2008: 136 (n. 268, '2e moitié du IXe s.'); DGVB 5; Dumville 1994: 91, 93, 95; Elliot 2013: 107–8; Flechner 2003–4: 131–3; Flechner 2004; Flechner 2008: 29–30, 41–2; Flechner 2019: I, 133–5; Lambert 2018: 6–9; Lapidge 1992: 100, n. 24; Lemoine 1985: 42–9, 289; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_6067); Mordek 1995: 404–6; _PMSB_ 307–8 (§69); Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 168 (n. 83); Stokes 1879–80: 328, 341–2. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/118 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/118 25 10 237 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:10:38.000000Z 118 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 1 8 15 119 MS Laud Lat. 26 Whole MS (101 fols) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Unknown - Canon tables (3-8) - Depiction of the Crucifixion (9v) - Portrait of Saint Matthew (10v) - Gospel of Matthew preceded by prologue and capitula - Portrait of Saint Mark (37v) - Gospel of Mark preceded by prologue and capitula - Portrait of Saint Luke (54v) - Gospel of Luke preceded by prologue and capitula - Portrait of Saint John (82v) - Gospel of John - _Capitulare evangeliorum de circulo anni_, incomplete (97r-101v). 0 0 The attribution of this MS to Brittany, accepted by Bischoff in _Kat._ §3814, is mostly based on the iconography, which is very similar to that of other Gospel-books of probable or certain Breton origin whose illuminators followed models originating from Tours, such as [Alençon, BM, MS 84](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/1), [Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS W.1](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/12), and [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, MS Archivio San Pietro D 154](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/185) (cf. _EBGB_ 22). 3814 Alexander 1985: 270–1; _EBGB_ 15 (n. 4), 16–22; Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In20b; Jenkinson 1908: xxxix; Kitzinger 2013b: 36; Lemoine 2005: 15, 21; Lemoine 2008: 193; [_MMOL_](https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_7598); _OHLP_ 257; Pächt and Alexander 1966–73: I, §428; _PMSB_ 308 (§70). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/119 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/119 1 238 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:10:49.000000Z 119 45 Bodleian Library Oxford 1 https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/p/ffd7b12f-aa9f-4743-aeed-1d6397dac3a0 A few folios (containing most of the manuscript's remarkable iconography) can be seen at 120 MS 194 Fols 4-65 IX ex. / X in. 876 925 - Dover? - Christ Church, Canterbury. - Gospel of Matthew (4-20v) - Gospel of Mark (21r-31v) - Gospel of Luke (32r-51r) - Gospel of John (51r-65r). 0 0 Temple (1976: 41) described this MS as 'probably Breton', and David Ganz has recently included St John's 194 in his list of Breton Gospel-books in _OHLP_ 257. However, it should also be noted that Bischoff (_Kat._ §3876) suggested more cautiously that this MS may have been written by 'a Breton scribe' ('Wohl bretonischer Schreiber'). The text does present several insular abbreviations and letter-forms, as well as a number of marginal entries written in the Greek and the so-called 'Aethicus Ister' alphabets. Many marginal additions were made in England between the tenth and the twelfth century. N.B.: I have not yet been able to consult Hanna 2002 in relation to this MS. 3876 _ASM_ 519 (§688); Hanna 2002: 280–1; _ILLB_ In19; McGurk 1987: 166 (n. 2); _OHLP_ 257; Temple 1976: 12, 41–2 (§12). 0 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/120 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/120 1 239 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:11:00.000000Z 120 46 St John's Oxford 1 121 MS Fragm. Nr. 10 Fragment (1 fol.) IX 2/4 826 850 Unknown Isidore, _Etymologiae_ (fragment). 1 0 This MS, which preserves three Old Breton glosses, is one of several _disiecta membra_ from a single codex that contained a copy of Isidore's _Etymologiae_. For further details see the entry for [Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, MS Memb. I 147](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/52) in the present Handlist. 1424 Fleuriot 1979: 199; Lambert 2018: 40; _PMSB_ 308 (§71). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/121 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/121 31 17 240 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:11:11.000000Z 121 47 Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek Paderborn 1 122 MS 421 (1106) 2nd C.U. (fols 45-115) XI 1001 1100 Unknown Missal. 0 0 The eleventh-century section of this codex is bound to a thirteenth-century copy of the Missal, which replaced the first 44 folios of the older MS. The later codicological unit was likewise written in Brittany, as shown by the calendar at fols 2–6, which contains numerous names of Breton saints (for a list, see _ILLB_ L146, p. 129); as for the older unit, an incomplete mass for Saint Samson occurs at fols 114–15, and Breton neumes can also be seen here (Huglo 1963: 59; Deuffic 2011: 66). The whole MS must have belonged to the priory of Bréventec, a daughter-house of the abbey of Saint Mathieu de Fine-Terre (Pointe-Saint-Mathieu, Commune de Plougonvelin, Finistère), as shown by a detailed note dating from AD 1272, written on fol. 1r, and another one on fol. 30v (cf. _ILLB_ L146, p. 129). However, whether the eleventh-century unit was written at Bréventec or in some other Breton foundation (perhaps at Saint Mathieu?) cannot be determined. n/a Deuffic 2011: 66; Huglo 1963: 59; _ILLB_ L146; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/6496/8975); _L&S_ 971; _PMSB_ 314 (§94). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/122 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/122 4 30 241 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:07:39.000000Z 122 242 Bréventec Possibly 48°30'55.9"N 4°22'35.9"W coordinates for Bréventec (Finistère) 48.515528 -4.376639 241 2 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 122 48 Bibliothèque Mazarine Paris 7 16 https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md92g732gp3k Two folios (though not from the relevant section, unfortunately) can be seen at 123 MS 1707 (1354) Whole MS (96 fols) IX 3/4 851 875 Discalced Carmelites of Saint-Joseph (Paris) - Lives of saints (Mary the Egyptian, Eufrasia) - Eutychianus, _De quodam vicedomino Theophilo nomine_ (Latin translation by Paulus Diaconus of Naples) - Venantius Fortunatus, _Versus de cruce Domini_ (89v-90r) - Prayers (90v-96v). 0 0 Some of the pieces added at the end of this MS, at fols 89v-91r, carry Breton neumes, similar to the ones found in [Chartres, BM, MS 47](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/42). While the bulk of this MS was probably written at Rheims, the prayers occurring at fols 89v-96v (and their musical notation) may have been added elsewhere (cf. _Kat._ 3939; Rankin 2018: 99), perhaps somewhere in Western Francia, but not necessarily in Brittany (_pace_ Huglo 1963: 66). 3939 Deuffic 2011: 71; Huglo 1963: 66; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7133/9641); _PMSB_ 314 (§95); Rankin 2018: 99. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/123 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/123 11 19 4 21 243 Northern Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 123 244 Rheims Possibly 49.257789 4.031926 243 2 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-06-07T11:04:39.000000Z 123 245 Western Francia Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 123 48 Bibliothèque Mazarine Paris 4 16 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=14654 A few folios can be seen at 124 MS 1708 (1318) 3rd C.U. (fols 27-52) IX 2/2 851 900 - Saint-Maur-des-Fossés - Discalced Carmelites of Saint-Joseph (Paris) _Vita Prima_ of Saint Samson of Dol. 0 0 In his _Katalog_ entry for this codicological unit (_Kat._ §3941), Bischoff only provided the laconic attribution 'Wohl Nordfrankreich.' While there is no evidence at all to suggest that this MS was written in Brittany, it is nonetheless the earliest extant witness to the important _Vita Prima_ of Saint Samson, and for this reason it was used by Flobert as the basis for his edition of this text (cf. Flobert 1997: 45): accordingly, it is worth listing it here. The ninth-century dating indicated in the present hand-list is the one given by Bischoff (_Kat._ §3941); other scholars proposed much later dates (see the references provided in Poulin 2009: 322). Poulin (2009: 322) describes this MS as being 'de facture modeste.' Before being bound in the present heterogeneous codex, the codicological unit in question must have been at the head of a miscellaneous hagiographical collection assembled in the twelfth century (cf. Poulin 1999; 2006: 145). 3941 Brett 2017: 99; Flobert 1997: 44–5, 52; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7134); Poulin 1999; Poulin 2006: 145; Poulin 2009: 322. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/124 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/124 11 246 Northern Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 124 48 Bibliothèque Mazarine Paris 2 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=14655 A few folios (but not of the relevant C.U., except for fol. 27r) can be seen at 125 MS Lat. 196 Fols 61r-90v XII 1101 1200 Abbey of Saint-Martial, Limoges A miscellany of texts by, and concerning, Hilary of Poitiers, including: - Venantius Fortunatus, _Vita et miracula sancti Hilarii_ (61r-67v) - Hilary of Poitiers, _Epistola et hymnus ad Abram_ (68r-69v) - Sermons, brief hagiographical texts and hymns about Hilary of Poitiers (73v-87r). 1 0 According to Fleuriot's Dictionary (_DGVB_ 7), a phrase in Breton, _hiat hiat altro Hilarius, altro Hilarius_, badly copied from an earlier exemplar, can be read at 'fo 83'; however, no such phrase can be found at either fol. 83r or 83v: instead, it occurs at fol. 85r, in the context of a most interesting anecdote concerning a certain Breton madman who, not knowing the 'language of the Aquitanians' (_Quidam ... lunaticus Britto aquitanica loquela penitus ignarus_, at fol. 84v), prayed to Saint Hilary in his own 'barbaric' language (_nescio quid barbarum frendens_, at fol. 85r), so that the Saint may heal him. The corrupted words may stand for Old Breton _(h)iac, (h)iac, altro Hilarius_, 'heal, heal [me], Lord Hilarius' (cf. _DGVB_ 211; for an edition of texts from this MS, including the miraculous anecdote in question, see the _Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum latinorum antiquiorum saeculo XVI qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Nationali Parisiensi_ (Bruxelles and Paris 1889), vol. I, pp. 6–11, esp. p. 9). n/a Bauer 2008: 81; _BNCG_ I, 69–70; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc8433n); Deuffic 1985c: 23; _DGVB_ 7, 211; Lemoine 1985: 291; Schrijver 2011: 8. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/125 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/125 11 4 17 28 247 Aquitaine Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:08:15.000000Z 125 248 Poitiers Possibly 46°34'49.6"N 0°20'56.6"E coordinates for Poitiers 46.580444 0.349056 247 2 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 125 49 BnF Paris 2 28 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84262873 126 MS Lat. 258 Whole MS (161 fols) IX 3/3 867 900 - Normandy - Fécamp? - Mont-Saint-Michel? - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (acephalous) ()1r-2r) - Jerome, Preface to the four Gospels (2r-4r) - Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus (4r-v) - Jerome, Second letter to Pope Damasus (5r) - Preface and capitula to Matthew's Gospel (5r-7r) - Depiction of the Crucifixion (8r) - Ailerán, Poem on the Gospel canons, inc. _Quam in primo spetiosa quadriga_ (8v) - Canon tables (9r-16r) - Drawing of Christ (16v) - Gospel of Matthew (17r-55r) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (55r-81r) - Gospel of Luke (lacunose), preceded by preface and capitula (81v-120r) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (121r-152v) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (incomplete) (153r-161v). 0 1 This MS is confidently attributed to Brittany in _Kat._ §3972, and, according to _EBGB_ 12 (n. 2), Bischoff considered Latin 258 to be particularly close to the 'Bradfer-Lawrence' Gospel-book ([Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 45-1980](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/36), a MS possibly or probably but not certainly written in Brittany). Moreover, the same scholar also pointed out that the parchment of this MS has a certain 'stiffness', similar to that of another (probably) Breton Gospel-book, namely [Paris, BnF, Latin 264](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/127) (and cf. _Kat._ §3978). Moreover, it is notable that this MS contains a copy of the poem on the Eusebian canons that has been attributed to the Irish author Ailerán (the poem presents here a partially trimmed marginal attribution _eranus dicit_, probably standing for _[Ail]eranus dicit_); the same text can be found in another Breton Gospel-book: [Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. D.2.16](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/110). It should also be pointed out that neumes—possibly of the 'Breton' kind—were added, perhaps during the tenth or eleventh century, on fol. 49v and 53v (_ILLB_ In21, p. 54). Pending a more detailed palaeographical and iconographic analysis of this MS, we can provisionally consider Lat. 258 as the possible (or even probable) product of a Breton scriptorium, although one should also be aware of the issues on date and origin discussed in Simpson (McKee) 1999: 283–5 (cf. also Kitzinger 2013, p. 39–40, n.5, where this MS is described as 'a gospel attributed to tenth-century Fécamp'). 3972 _BNCG_ I, 95; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc60377d); _EBGB_ 12 (n. 2), 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In21; Kitzinger 2013b: 39–40 (n. 5); Lemoine 2008: 193; _PMSB_ 308 (§72); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 283–5, 289–90. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/126 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/126 1 21 249 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:56.000000Z 126 49 BnF Paris 3 16 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10525474k 127 MS Lat. 264 Whole MS (177 fols) IX 4/4 876 900 Unknown - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (1r-2v) - Jerome, Preface to the four Gospels (3r-4r) - Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus (4v-5v) - Jerome, Second letter to Pope Damasus (5v-6r) - Preface and capitula to Matthew's Gospel (6r-8v) - Canon tables (9r-16r) - Gospel of Matthew (17r-48v) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (49v-85v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and capitula (86r-132v) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (133r-166v) - _Capitulare evangeliorum anni circuli_ (167r-177r). 0 0 For a possible link between this Gospel-book and the BnF MS Latin 258, see the notes concerning the latter. Deuffic (_PMSB_ 308, §73) considers the Breton origin of Latin 264 as 'probable', and this view is shared by Bischoff in _Kat._ §3978. However, pending a more detailed and transparent analysis, this origin can only be seen as possible. It is worth drawing attention to the peculiar shape of the letter _g_ that can be seen on some folios of this MS: the letter in question looks like a mixture between the insular _g_ letter-form and an Arabic number _3_ (for some good examples, see e.g. fols 5r-v). 3978 _BNCG_ I, 97; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc60433s); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In22; Lemoine 2008: 193; _PMSB_ 308 (§73); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 283–4, 289–90. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/127 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/127 1 250 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 127 49 BnF Paris 3 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8492147x 128 MS Lat. 894 5th C.U. (fols 45–50) XI in. 1001 1025 Collection of Jean Auguste de Thou (1553–1617) Sacramentary (see [Paris, BnF, Latin 2297](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/133)). 0 0 These few folios constitute the beginning of the sacramentary whose bulk survives under the shelfmark [Paris, BnF, Latin 2297](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/133). A striking depiction of the Crucifixion can be found on fol. 45r. n/a _BNCG_ I, 317–18; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc624527); _ILLB_ In42; _PMSB_ 308 (§74). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/128 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/128 4 251 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:12:18.000000Z 128 49 BnF Paris 1 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8529701g 129 MS Lat. 1154 1st C.U. (fols 1–25) XI 1001 1100 Saint-Martial de Limoges - Litany containing the names of more than 1000 saints, with a Breton series at fols 9r-10r (1r-21r) - Prayers (21r-25v). 0 0 As shown by the prominent position of Saint Martin at fol. 5v, this MS may well have been written in a monastery dedicated to this saint (perhaps somewhere in Aquitaine?); in any case, it later reached the abbey of Saint-Martial at Limoges, where the long litany contained therein was adapted to local needs. Although there is no indication to suggest that this codicological unit was written in Brittany, the long list of names of Breton saints (some quite rare) at fols 9r–10r (cf. _ILLB_ In37, pp. 123–4) indicates that at least those contents may have been copied from a tenth-century Breton exemplar, as suggested in Duine 1922: 60. This MS is therefore a significant witness for the transmission of textual materials from Brittany to Aquitaine (especially Limoges). n/a _BCGN_ I, 421–2; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc590838); D'Arbois de Jubainville 1876–8; Duine 1922: 59–60; _ILLB_ In37; _L&S_ §977; _PMSB_ 308 (§75). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/129 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/129 4 252 Unknown Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 129 49 BnF Paris 4 11 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84324798 130 MS Lat. 1750 3rd C.U. (fols 12-27) IX 3/3 867 900 Collection of Jean Auguste de Thou (1553–1617) Pseudo-Augustinus, _Categoriae decem_ with abundant scholia (some probably added in the eleventh century). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §4057) tentatively attributed these folios to Brittany, presumably on the basis of their script and abbreviations (e.g., there are numerous instances of insular _enim_). Pending a more detailed palaeographical analysis, this suggestion cannot be either confirmed or rejected. 4057 _BCGN_ II, 154–6; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc12931x); Marenbon 1981: 178–9. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/130 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/130 23 22 253 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 130 49 BnF Paris 3 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8479009h 131 MS Lat. 2051 Whole MS (284 fols) IX med. 825 875 Collection of Antoine Faure (1628–1689) Augustine, _De ciuitate Dei_ (complete). 0 0 Bischoff suggested (_Kat._ §4125) that this complete copy of Augustine's _De civitate Dei_ may have been written 'near Brittany', presumbaly on the basis of its script. In any case, there does not seem to be any clear evidence that this MS was written in Brittany itself. 4125 _BNCG_ II, 302; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc1042256); Smith 1992: 171 (n. 101). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/131 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/131 17 254 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 131 49 BnF Paris 4 9 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10547728r 132 MS Lat. 2183 Whole MS (197 fols) X ex. 976 1000 Collection of Philibert de la Mare (1615–1687) - Medieval list of the manuscript's contents (1v) - Justus of Urgell, _Explicatio in Cantica Canticorum_ (3r-23r) - _Synonyma Ciceronis_ (23r-26v) - Alcuin, _De rhetorica et uirtutibus_ (27-44r) - Poem _Qui rogo ciuiles cupiat_ (44r) - Alcuin, Letters to Charlemagne (44r-49r) - _De ordine creaturarum_ (49v-64r) - Alcuin, _De uirtutibus et uitiis_ (64r-66v) - Commentary on a sermon by Jerome concerning the Passion according to Saint Matthew (66v-113r) - Compilation of computistical texts (113r-122r) - Blank folio (122v) - Treatises on orthography (123r-133v) - Glossaries _Adonai_ and _Abactor_ (133v-197v). 0 1 This is the MS bearing the _siglum_ U in Diaz y Diaz's 1972 edition of the seventh-century Hiberno-Latin cosmological tract _De ordine creaturarum_. This MS was not written in Brittany; Diaz y Diaz (1972: 51) rather pointed to a possible connection with Angers (although he also added that 'una conexión con una región más al Este no es de excluir'; perhaps Vendôme could be suggested as an alternative to Angers, judging from the script). However, the same scholar considered this MS to be particularly close to Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 178 (_siglum_ K), a ninth-century manuscript from the Loire Valley which presents insular features and even contains a fragment of a chronicle of Britain; indeed, Diaz y Diaz concluded that both witnesses to this Hiberno-Latin tract may derive 'de un manuscrito insular o fuertemente influenciado por ambientes insulares' (ibid.). Interestingly, the highly peculiar orthography _malionae_ for _malina_ ('spring-tide') occurs in this copy of _De ordine creaturarum_ (cf. Diaz y Diaz 1972: 148, apparatus criticus): a very similar orthography (_mallione_) can also be found in an excerpt from the same text in Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.123 (fol. 83r), a large scientific encyclopaedia from eleventh-century Ripoll that presents many points of contact with computistical texts from Brittany and Fleury. Finally, it should be pointed out that the _computistica_ at fols 113r–122r contain numerous passages reflecting Irish or Irish-influenced thought in this field of Medieval learning. These elements may be tentatively taken as indications that the copy of _De ordine creaturarum_ in Lat. 2183 (and perhaps also the one in Bern 178?) derived from a Breton exemplar (cf. Bisagni 2017: 32). Needless to say, further research will be needed to test this working hypothesis. n/a Bisagni 2017: 32; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc60077w);_BNCG_ II, 357; Diaz y Diaz 1972: 51–2; Smyth 2011: 214–15. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/132 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/132 6 8 2 13 9 38 21 255 Loire Valley Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:10:08.000000Z 132 256 Angers Possibly 47°28'34.3"N 0°32'48.0"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Serge of Angers 47.476194 -0.546667 255 2 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 132 49 BnF Paris 2 12 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53157000f 133 MS Lat. 2297 Whole MS (92 fols) XI in. 1001 1025 Collection of Jean Auguste de Thou (1553–1617) - _Temporale_ (1r-21r) - _Sanctorale_ (with the feast of Saint Samson at fols 32v-33v) (21v-45v) - Prayers, blessings, masses, etc. (45r-91r) - _Ordo confessionis sacerdotum et omnium clericorum_ (92r) - Added poem in French (92v). 0 0 The beginning of this sacramentary can be found under the shelfmark [Paris, BnF, Lat. 894](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/128), fols 45–50. Interestingly, the mass for Saint Samson of Dol at fols 32v-33v describes the saint as follows (33ra): _patroni nostri sancti Samsoni episcopi iuri in occidiis partibus_. As is pointed out in Duine 1922: 33, this MS 'devait servir à une église dans laquelle, par la suite d'une translation de reliques, le saint de Dol était honoré d'un culte particulier.' A Breton origin is therefore very likely. Moreover, this MS presents Breton neumatic notation (Huglo 1963: 67). n/a _BNCG_ II, 395; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc601249); Duine 1922: 33–4; Huglo 1963: 67; _ILLB_ In42; _L&S_ §968; Leroquais 1924: I, 107–10; _PMSB_ 309 (§76). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/133 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/133 4 257 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:12:51.000000Z 133 49 BnF Paris 1 16 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8427444b 134 MS Lat. 3182 Whole MS (356 fols) X 2/2 951 1000 Fécamp A very large and complex collection of secular laws, canon laws and penitential texts, including: - _Liber ex lege Moysi_ (1–13) - Various notes and excerpts, also concerning world chronology (13-17) - _Virtutes quas Dominus dominica die fecit_, on the days of Creation, also known as _Epistil Ísu_ (17-18) - An earlier scribe's subscription, copied also in [Orléans, Médiathèque, 221](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99) and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151) (18) - Commentary on Matthew 11:29 (18) - _Canones Hibernenses_, recension A (19-160; cf. also 177, 279-280, 302, 305-307, 312) - _Excerpta de libris Romanorum et Francorum_, also known as _Canones Wallici_ (160-164) - _Canones Adomnani_ (164, 173-175, 283) - _Iudicia Theodori_, recension D (also known as _Capitula Dacheriana_) (164-173) - Penitential of Vinnian, extracts (176-177) - Canon laws, _Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana_ (183-264) - Excerpts from the _Vetus Gallica_ and from Gregory the Great, _Epistolae_ (264-273) - Extracts from the Bible and the Fathers (273-280) - _Praefatio Gildae_, _Synodus Aquilonalis Brittanniae_, _Synodus Luci Victoriae_, _Excerpta de libro Dauidis_ (280-283) - Chapters concerning prayer and penance (283-286) - _Paenitentiale Bigotianum_ (286-299) - Theodulf of Orléans, _Capitula_ (300-302) - _Proverbia Grecorum_, extracts (303–4) - _Liber Pontificalis_ (308-310) - Chapters on ecclesiastical offices (310-312) - _Capitulare legibus additum_ of AD 803, _Capitulare missorum_ of AD 803, excerpts from the _Lex Salica (312-338) - Pseudo-Felix of Messina, _Epistola_ to Pope Gregory (338-343) - Theodulf of Orléans, episcopal statutes (343-350) - _Paenitentiale Egberti_ (351-356) - _De penitentia Hieronimi presbiteri_ (355-356) - Scribal colophon (356). 1 1 This is the famous _Codex Bigotianus_ containing numerous Hiberno-Latin penitential tracts as well as recension A of the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_. The contents of this MS—which was written by a Breton scribe named _discipulus Maeloc_ (as revealed by the faded colophon on p. 356, col. b; cf. _PMSB_ 309), and which preserves a few Old Breton glosses—must derive from a collection very similar to that of [Cambrai, BM, 625](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/29), one of the numerous Breton MSS to preserve full or partial copies of the _Hibernensis_. Bischoff (_Kat._ III, 89), Mordek (1995: 433), Dumville (2004: 167) and several other scholars indicate Brittany as the area of origin of this MS; in fact, it seems difficult to establish with certainty whether the _Bigotianus_ was written in Brittany or rather by a Breton scribe working in a scriptorium outside of Brittany (such as Fécamp, for example). In any case, in view of the close textual links with MSS such as the above-mentioned Cambrai 625, as well as [Orléans, Médiathèque, 221](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99) and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151) (Flechner 2019: I, 128), it is likely that the scribe—whoever he was and wherever he may have been working—copied at least some of this manuscript's contents from an older Breton exemplar. No number; vol. III, 89 Bauer 2008: 81; Bieler 1963: 12–13, 21–2; Bischoff 1974: 145 (§39); _BNCG_ IV, 304–17; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc610287); Bradshaw 1889: 412, 414–15, 473–4, 487; _CLH_ 740 (§578), 751 (§580), 755 (§582), 762 (§588), 789 (§620), 791 (§621); Deuffic 2008: 79, 128 (n. 220), 136 (n. 268, '1ère moitié du Xe s.'); _DGVB_ 6; Dumville 1984b: 214; Dumville 1994: 93 (n. 26), 94 (n. 28); Dumville 2004: 167; Flechner 2008: 28–30; Flechner 2019: I, 128–32; Fleuriot 1985: 67; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0253 ); _L&S_ §903; Lemoine 1985: 291; Lemoine 2001: 261–2; Lemoine 2005: 21; Lemoine 2008: 191; Meeder 2009: 182; Mordek 1995: 433–5; _PMSB_ 309 (§77); Riché 2004: 21; Schrijver 2011: 9; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 287–8; Smith 1992: 170 (n. 93); Stokes 1879–80: 328, 345–6; Wright 2006: 194, 202. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 19-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/134 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/134 26 25 10 258 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:10:47.000000Z 134 259 Normandy Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:10:47.000000Z 134 260 Fécamp Possibly 49°45'20.0"N 0°22'51.7"E coordinates for the abbey of Fécamp 49.755556 0.381028 259 3 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 134 49 BnF Paris 3 11 29 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10545017j 135 MS Lat. 4839 Whole MS (51 fols) X 901 1000 Collection of Philibert de la Mare (1615–1687) - Priscian, _Periegesis_, with abundant marginal scholia (1r-20r) - Marcus Aurelius Nemesianus, _Cynegetica_ (20v-26r) - Serenus Sammonicus, _Liber medicinalis_ (26r-48r) - Blank folios (48v-51v). 1 1 Deuffic (_PMSB_ 309, §78) describes this codex as a 'manuscrit composite', but this does not seem to be the case. As for this manuscript's origin, although in Bischoff's _Katalog_ (_Kat._ III, p. 103) it is ascribed to tenth-century England, this attribution is explicitly rejected by Ebersperger (1999: 198–9), who proposes instead that it was written somewhere in Francia. It is especially notable that the scholia to Priscian's _Periegesis_ contain six glosses in Old Breton (_DGVB_ 439–40). Although there does not seem to be any conclusive evidence that this MS was actually written in Brittany, we may nonetheless hypothesise that these glosses—and perhaps the whole text of the _Periegesis_—were copied from a Breton exemplar: indeed, some glosses contain a strong Breton diagnostic feature, i.e. the abbreviation _ɔ-c_ for _contra_ (cf. Lemoine 1985: 50; see also Lemoine 2008: 190–1, and the entry for [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.1263](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/202) in the present Handlist). Interestingly, it has been suggested that these glosses could ultimately derive from an Irish archetype (Van de Woestijne 1949–50: 133, n. 2; Szerwiniack 1992–3: 19–20). No number; vol. III, 103 _ASM_ 637 (§884); [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc63714j); _DGVB_ 339–40 (Appendice II); Ebersperger 1999: 198–9 (§58); Lambert 1989: 83–4; Lemoine 1985: 49–51, 290; _PMSB_ 309 (§78); Schrijver 2011: 9; Smith 1992: 172 (n. 106); Szerwiniack 1992–3: 19–20; Van de Woestijne 1949–50; Van de Woestijne 1953. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/135 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/135 39 21 18 261 England Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 135 262 Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 135 49 BnF Paris 4 11 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10032738r 136 MS Lat. 4877 Whole MS (171 fols) XIII 1201 1300 Collection of Jean-Baptiste Colbert - Orosius, _Historiae adversus paganos_ (1r-94v, 168r-171v) - Paul the Deacon, _Historia Langobardorum_ (95r-141r) - Einhard, _Vita Karoli Magni_ (141r-150v) - _Vita Alexandri Magni_ (150v-161v) - _Alexandri ad Aristotelem epistula de situ Indiae_ (161v-167v). 1 0 There is no clear evidence to suggest that this late MS was written in Brittany; it is more likely that its four Old Breton glosses (and one Old English gloss) on Orosius's _Historiae_ were copied from a (much older?) Breton exemplar, probably close to [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192), and [Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, MS Voss. Lat. F 13](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/61) (cf. Lambert 1988: 216–17, who points out that some of these glosses 'indiquent au moins un contact avec les Bretons insulaires'). n/a [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc637534); Lambert 1988: 216–17; Lambert 2018: 40. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/136 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/136 19 17 263 Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 136 49 BnF Paris 4 11 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100357575 137 MS Lat. 5610A Whole MS (83 fols) X ex. / XI in. 976 1025 - Château-du-Loir (Sarthe) - Notre-Dame de Paris - Library of the Oratorians (Paris). This manuscript contains a substantial collection of texts concerning Saint Winwaloe, including: - Gurdisten, _Vita longior sancti Winwaloei_ (1v-76v) - Hymns to Saint Winwaloe (with added neumes) (76v-78v) - Homily concerning Saint Winwaloe (78v-82v) - Antiphon of Saint Winwaloe (with neumes) and prayers (later additions) (82r-83r). 0 0 This MS is an important witness for several texts concerning Saint Winwaloe and a precious survival of the manuscript production of Landévennec c. AD 1000. That the MS was indeed written at Landévennec is indicated not only by the nature of its contents, but also by the reference to _Cornubia_ (Cornouaille) in the scribal entry in large capitals that occupies most of fol. 1r: _Lanbertus laicus equidem me scribere fecit Winualoei patris eximii titulo cuius frater erat Medardus diues in omni Cornubiae gaza nee_ [sic, for _nec_] _minus_ [suprascript gloss: _s(cilicet) diues_] _ille fuit_ (cf. _CMD_ II, 497). On the basis of textual and linguistic figures, Deuffic argues (_ILLB_ Q230, p. 223) that this MS may have been copied from a ninth-century exemplar (and the above-mentioned colophon may likewise derive from that exemplar), whereas Poulin (2009: 407) argues that the copy of the _Vita longior_ contained herein may have been taken from the hagiographical section of the Cartulary of Landévennec ([Quimper, BM, MS 16](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/177)). Fols 9–20 do not belong to the original MS but were rather inserted, probably to replace older folios, during the twelfth or the thirteenth century (cf. Poulin 2009: 406). n/a [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc645779); Brett 1985: 256, 260–1; _CMD_ II, 497; De Smedt 1888: 167–70; Deuffic 1985a: 270–1; _ILLB_ Q230; _L&S_ §824, 827; _PMSB_ 309–10 (§79); Poulin 1996: 176–7; Poulin 2009: 401–2, 406–7, 428; Simon 1985a: 26; Smith 1990: 321 (n. 48). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/137 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/137 11 4 28 27 264 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:13:25.000000Z 137 265 Landévennec Certainly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 264 2 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 137 49 BnF Paris 7 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551088t 138 MS Lat. 6400B 249r(bis)–284v (5th C.U.) X 1/2 (perhaps close to AD 931) or 3/4 (in any case before AD 972) 931 972 Fleury A heterogeneous collection of computistical texts and tables titled _In honomate filii redemptoris cosmi a m(alo)_ (or _am(en)_), including in particular: - Insular or insular-influenced materials concerning the _bissextus_ (e.g. 252r-v) - An excerpt concerning the noun _uesper_, based on the writings of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (260r) - Materials plainly related to the Hiberno-Latin _De divisionibus temporum_ (e.g. 263r-264v, 268r-v, 270v-271r, 272r-v) - A computistical table for the years AD 931-949 (273r) - A long section from the _Computus Hibernicus Parisinus_ of AD 754 (274r-284r). This codicological unit appears to be incomplete and the last folio (284v), which concerns finger-reckoning, is damaged and now nearly illegible. 1 1 This heterogeneous computistical collection presents strong Breton features. In particular: 1. the title that opens the collection, _In honomate filii redemptoris cosmi a m(alo)_ (or _am(en)_), matches the occurrence of the rare and even 'Hisperic' elements _in honomate_ and _cosmus_ in a number of Breton manuscripts (cf. the notes to [Angers, BM, MS 24](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/5); [Luxembourg, BN, MS 89](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/83); [Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 302](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/104); [Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS Auct. F.4.32](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/113); see also Lemoine 1989: 146–7); 2. two Old Breton glosses can be found herein (cf. _DGVB_ 6, 139, 246; Lambert 1984: 206); 3. Lat. 6400B presents remarkable textual affinities with some of the contents of [Angers, BM, 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8). Holtz has suggested that this codicological unit of Lat. 6400B was written in a Breton scriptorium (Holtz and Lambert 1986: 187); some clues, however, rather indicate that this MS may have been copied from a Breton exemplar in a (North-)Western Frankish centre—perhaps at Fleury, which is the provenance of the other units of the miscellaneous codex now bearing the shelfmark Lat. 6400B (cf. Carey 1923: 96–7; _LF_ BF1074–9, esp. BF1078). The most significant elements suggesting that this MS was produced outside of Brittany are: 1. the fact that the only occurrence of the insular abbreviation for _autem_ (_h_ with a 'hook') is immediately followed by the continental abbreviation for the same word (_aut_ with a stroke on top) at fol. 269r (presumably, such a peculiar dittography would not occur in a centre where insular _autem_ was used routinely by scribes, as was the case in Brittany); 2. the fact that one of the Old Breton glosses may be somewhat corrupt (cf. Lambert 1984: 206, where it is suggested that _loitret_ could stand for OB _*loitnet_, 'animals', or the like) and may therefore have been copied mechanically by a scribe who did not speak Breton. In any case, there is no doubt that this codicological unit must date from the tenth century. The _argumentum_ for the _annus Domini_ at fol. 252v points to a range between AD 972 and 986, but this is because it was clearly updated by a later scribe; therefore, this _argumentum_ actually fixes AD 972 as a _terminus ante quem_ (other _argumenta_ point to dating clauses in the late ninth century, but these were probably copied from an exemplar). The computistical table at fol. 273r covers the years 931–949, so that the MS may have been produced within this chronological range (and perhaps closer to the beginning of this particular 19-year cycle). Alternatively, if this table was copied faithfully from the exemplar, without updates, the MS may then have been written not long after AD 949. In any case, its script seems to point to a date not too late in the tenth century. The _computistica_ found in this MS present numerous features of interest and deserve to be studied in detail, especially insofar as they exhibit many points of contact with Early Medieval Irish computistical thought. Indeed, fols 274r–284r preserve a long section from the _Computus Hibernicus Parisinus_ of AD 754, an Irish tract that survives only in this MS and in a few folios of [Angers, BM, MS 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8). Moreover, it is highly significant that some parts of the _Computus_ of AD 754 match contents that occur elsewhere only in [Paris, BnF, Lat. 7418A](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/139)—a MS from eleventh-century Landévennec—and in the early ninth-century codex [Laon, BM, 422](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/57). There is no doubt that this codicological unit of Lat. 6400B is a key witness for the circulation of Irish _computistica_ in Early Medieval Brittany and for the reconstruction of the route of transmission of such texts between Ireland and the Carolingian empire. n/a Bauer 2008: 81–2; Bisagni 2012: 70–2; Bisagni 2013-14; Bisagni 2017: 25–34; Bisagni 2019: _passim_ (esp. 247–56, 268–70); Bisagni 2020a: 32–4; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc65479r); Carey 1923: 96–7; _DGVB_ 6; Holtz and Lambert 1986: 184–8; Lambert 1984: 206; Lambert 2018: 35; Lemoine 1985: 290; Lemoine 1989: 12; _LF_ BF1074–9 (esp. BF1078); _PMSB_ 310 (§80); Riché 2004: 21; Schrijver 2011: 9; Vidier 1965: 52; Warntjes 2013–14. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 14-09-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/138 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138 6 8 266 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:14:13.000000Z 138 267 Loire Valley Probably 2 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:35:37.000000Z 138 268 Fleury Probably 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 267 3 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 138 49 BnF Paris 3 15 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525072333 139 MS Lat. 7418A 1st C.U. (fols 1r-37v) AD 1042 1042 1042 Collection of Jean-Baptiste Colbert - Various notes and _anathema_ (added s. XII-XV?) (1r) - _Regulae mensium_ (1v) - Brief history of computus, possibly compiled by, or in any case attributed to, a certain _Etnoc auctor_ (1v) - Calendar (2r-7v) - Computistical and cosmological tables and diagrams (8r-18r) Fols 18v-37r contain a heterogeneous collection of computistical and cosmological texts, including excerpts from Isidore's and Bede's works on these subjects, as well as numerous passages reflecting Irish computistical thought. In particular, the compilation presents: - numerous chapters dedicated to the various divisions of time, mostly re-elaborated from the Irish _De divisionibus temporum_ (_passim_) - an equation between the _annus naturalis_ and the _annus magnus_, very close to a passage of the _Computus Hibernicus Parisinus of AD 754_ (cf. the entries for [Angers, BM, MS 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8) and [Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138)) - an incomplete discussion of the noun _uesper_, based on the writings of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus (very close to analogous contents occurring in [Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138) (25v) - a textual lacuna (possibly due to the loss of a whole quire) between fols 25v and 26r - a computistical _argumentum_ for AD 1042, mentioning the death of _Alanus rex Britanniae_ (30r) - a mention of 6241 as the present _annus mundi_ (= AD 1041/1042) (31v) - added notes (s. XII-XV?) (37r-v). 1 1 This MS can be dated thanks to the explicit reference to AD 1042 as the 'second year after the death of Alan, King of Brittany, son of Geoffrey' (_secundo anno post mortem Alani regis Britanniae filii Ioffredi_, plainly a reference to Alan III of Brittany, who died in AD 1040). Given that the script agrees with a mid-eleventh-century date, and given that a further dating clause for AM 6241 = AD 1042 occurs on fol. 31v, there is no doubt that this unit of Lat. 7418A was written in AD 1042 or shortly thereafter (for a different view, see Borst 2006: I, 274). As for the attribution to Landévennec (or possibly one of its daughter-houses), this is confirmed by the mention of both the _depositio_ and the _dies natalis_ (i.e. the death) of Saint Winwaloe in the calendar, respectively at fols 3r and 3v (_depositio sancti Uuingualoei abbatis_ for 3 March; _natalis sancti Uuingualoei abbatis_ for 28 April). Moreover, this calendar mentions many other Breton saints, such as Gildas (29 January, fol. 2r), Paul Aurelian of Léon (12 March, fol. 3v), Corentinus of Quimper (1 May, fol. 4r), Ronan of Locronan (1 June, fol. 4v), Samson of Dol (28 July, fol. 5r), Edernus (1 September, fol. 6r), Melanius of Rennes (6 November, fol. 7r), and Macutis (15 November, fol. 7r). Finally, the brief history of _computus_ that can be read on fol. 1v appears to have been compiled by, or is in any case attributed to, an individual named _Etnoc auctor_: Etnoc may well be a Breton name (cf. Bisagni 2019: 253–4). The computistical materials occurring in this MS present significant insular and specifically Irish affiliations: among these, we may mention in particular a table at fol. 13r (on which cf. Lambert and Bisagni 2018), a fairly long section on the divisions of time at fols 20v–23v, a discussion of the different types of 'kindling' of the moon at different times of the year (_subincensio_, _mediaincensio_ and _superincensio_) at fols 23v–24r, and a passage concerning the different forms of the noun _uesper_ at fol. 25v (the contents of this passage derive from the writings of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus; for interesting parallels in other Breton MSS, cf. the entries for [Cambridge, University Library, Dd.10.16](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/39), [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 13029](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/155) in the present Handlist; moreover, the _uesper_ passage also occurs in [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.49](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/189); cf. Bisagni 2020a: 43–4, n. 106). Even more important in this respect is the unique textual agreement between the discussion of the _annus naturalis_ and solar eclipses at fol. 23v of Lat. 7418A and a passage of the _Computus Hibernicus Parisinus_ of AD 754 dealing with the same subject-matter (fol. 277r of [Paris, BNF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138); cf. Bisagni 2019: 255–6). As a consequence, it seems that the eleventh-century scribe of Lat. 7418A copied computistical materials of Irish origin that had been circulating in Brittany at least since c. AD 900, and possibly well before that time. n/a Bisagni 2013–14: 122 (n. 23); Bisagni 2017: 32, 34; Bisagni 2019: 253–6, 261; Bisagni 2020a: 43–4 (n. 106), 49 (n. 120), 110; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc66639d); Borst 2004: 141, 150–4; Borst 2006: I, 274–6; Lambert and Bisagni 2018: 160 (n. 10). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 20-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/139 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/139 6 8 30 269 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:14:38.000000Z 139 270 Landévennec Certainly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 269 2 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 139 49 BnF Paris 6 7 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100323565 140 MS Lat. 7520 1st C.U. (fols 1-24) VIII ex. / IX in. 776 825 Fleury - Terentius Scaurus, _Fragmentum Parisinum_ (fols 1r-v) - Probus, _Catholica_ (fols 1v-9r) - Alcuin, _De dialectica_ (fols 9r-22v) - Excerpts from Isidore, _Etymologiae_, II (fols 22v-23r) - Bede, _De schematibus et tropis_ (fols 23r-24v) 0 1 This MS originally belonged to the same codex as [Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 207](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/22). Bern 207 presents prominent Irish affiliations. No number; vol. III, 126 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc33963c); Boyer 1937; Holtz 1981: 361; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0042 ); _LF_ BF1112; Pellegrin 1988: 287, 289; _PMSB_ 310 (§81). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 20-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/140 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/140 13 15 271 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:14:53.000000Z 140 272 Fleury Certainly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 271 2 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 140 49 BnF Paris 2 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84900632 141 MS Lat. 7561 1st C.U. (pp. 1-12) IX ex. 876 900 Collection of Étienne Baluze (1630–1718) - Anonymous grammatical tract, inc. _Littera est prima materies uocis humanae indiuidua_ (1-10) - 'Our Father' in Greek (11) - Brief philosophical notes mentioning Plato and Augustine (11) - Added distich mentioning Ælfric (12). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §4476) tentatively attributed the first twelve pages of Lat. 7561 to a continental scribe working perhaps in England or Brittany towards the end of the ninth century. The connection with England (and with Ælfric in particular) is suggested by the distich added, probably in the eleventh century, on p. 12 (_Ælfrico monacho opus hoc super astra coruscet, / Qui studuit templi sic decus hoc fieri_; cf. Gneuss 2003: 77–8). Bischoff's suggestion of a link with Brittany (which seems more dubious) is probably based on the script and the abbreviation system: the insular abbreviation for _enim_ is indeed particularly frequent, and there are also a few instances of insular _con-_ and _et_ (cf. e.g. pp. 3, 4). 4476 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc66794m); Gneuss 2003: 77–8. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/141 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/141 13 273 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 141 274 England Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:57.000000Z 141 49 BnF Paris 3 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107210836 142 MS Lat. 9386 Whole MS (189 fols) IX 3/3 867 900 Cathedral of Chartres - Pseudo-Jerome, _Expositio IV Evangeliorum_, inc. _Primum querendum est omnium librorum_ (1r-v) - Jerome, Letters to Pope Damasus (2r-4r) - Eusebian canons (4v-9v) - Preface to Matthew's Gospel (9v-11v) - Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus (11v-12r) - Ailerán, poem on the Gospel canons, inc. _Quam in primo spetiosa quadriga_ (12v-13r) - Depiction of the _agnus Dei_ (13v) - Depiction of the symbol of Saint Matthew (man) (14r) - Depiction of the Annunciation (14v) - Gospel of Matthew, preceded by preface and capitula (15r-63v) - Depiction of the Nativity (64r) - Depiction of the symbol of Saint Mark (lion) (64v) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (65r-95v) - Depiction of Peter and Paul receiving from Christ, respectively, the keys and the Law (96r) - Empty folio (96v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and capitula (97r-143v) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (144r-178r) - Depiction of the symbol of Saint John (eagle) (146r) - Depiction of the dance of Salome before Herod and the beheading of Saint John the Baptist (146v) - Depiction of Herodias receiving the head of the Baptist, and funeral of the Baptist (147r) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (178v-188v). 0 1 This MS is also known as 'Chartres Gospels', although there is no clear indication suggesting that it was written there. According to Bischoff (_Kat._ §4756), this Gospel-book was written in a centre receiving influences from Tours and, possibly, Brittany, but he was plainly unwilling to commit to any particular geographical area, let alone a specific scriptorium. The following comments, offered on the _BnF Archives et Manuscrits_ web page for this MS, agree substantially with Bischoff's view: 'La copie a peut-être été réalisée dans un centre de la vallée de la Loire [...] ou en Bretagne, sous influences insulaire et continentale (notamment tourangelle), mais nous ne savons rien de sûr concernant son origine.' This Gospel-book offers a rich iconography (cf. Davezac 1978), and in due course this may help art historians to identify more precisely the area where it was written. Interestingly, a fragment of Pseudo-Jerome's _Expositio IV Evangeliorum_ (a text which Bischoff ascribed to the milieu of Irish exegesis, cf. Bischoff 1976: 108–9; ), headed by the formula _In nomine Dei summi_ (cf. Lemoine 2008: 197), can be found at fols 1r-v and 188r-v (note in particular the insular shape of the letter _g_ at the bottom of fol. 188r); a copy of the same text is contained in [Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.10.16](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/39), probably written in Brittany. A further Irish affiliation is provided by the presence of a copy of the poem on the Gospel canons, attributed to Ailerán, at fols 12v–13r. 4756 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc340429); Davezac 1978; _EBGB_ 11; Fleuriot 1983: 104; Lemoine 2005: 21; Lemoine 2008: 193, 197; _MPF_ §39; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 283, 289. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/142 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/142 1 2 21 275 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 142 276 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 142 277 North-Western Francia Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 142 278 Chartres Possibly 48.443860 1.488143 277 4 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-06-07T11:06:21.000000Z 142 49 BnF Paris 3 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8423840t 143 MS Lat. 9439 Whole MS (211 fols) XI ex. / XII in. 1076 1125 Saint-Gatien (Tours) - Calendar (1r-6v) - _Ordo missae_ (7r) - Missal (with Breton neumes) (7v-211v). 0 0 This MS is also known as 'Missal of Saint-Melaine of Rennes.' It is indeed most likely that it was written at the abbey of Saint-Melaine at Rennes around AD 1100, as is indicated by the strong focus on Saint Melanius in the calendar that opens the MS (cf. Duine 1902, also for the other Breton saints mentioned in this calendar). The MS presents interesting iconography at fols 7v (Christ in glory and _agnus Dei_) and 8r (Crucifixion scene). n/a [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc38713p); _CMD_ III, 728; Deuffic 2011: 67–8; Duine 1902; Duine 1922: 70–1, 240–2; Fleuriot 1983: 105; Huglo 1963: 61–2, 66; _ILLB_ R189. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/143 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/143 4 30 279 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:36:38.000000Z 143 280 Rennes Certainly 48°06'53.2"N 1°40'24.6"W coordinates for the church of Saint-Melaine at Rennes 48.114778 -1.673500 279 2 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 143 49 BnF Paris 6 7 16 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8422990r 144 MS Lat. 10251 2nd C.U. (fols 70–101) IX med. 825 875 Saint-Bénigne (Dijon) Anonymous, _Liber medicinalis_. 0 0 The script of this MS (which contains a long anonymous collection of medical recipes) presents strong insular features (note the use of insular _g_ throughout), and it is probably on account of this factor that Bischoff (_Kat._ §4621) tentatively placed its writing 'near Brittany' (although it is not clear why he did not opt for an origin in Brittany itself). 4621 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc71987w); Chandelier et al. 2006: 120, 128, 134, 149; Teeuwen 2020: 292 (but mostly concerning the 1st C.U.); Wickersheimer 1966: 98–9. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/144 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/144 18 281 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 144 49 BnF Paris 3 9 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105422015 145 MS Lat. 10289 Whole MS (219 fols) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 - Sens - Chartres. Priscian, _Institutiones grammaticae_, with scholia. 1 0 This copy of Priscian's _Institutiones_ (which, unlike [Paris, BnF, Lat. 10290](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/146), does not belong to the Irish tradition; cf. Lemoine 1985: 21 and Lemoine 1985b: 61, although see Cinato 2015: 562 for the possible existence of an insular ancestor) contains 25 glosses in Old Breton (in this context, it should be noted that parts of the original MS were replaced by new folios during the tenth century in order to fill textual gaps, as pointed out in Cinato 2015: 561–2; these more recent folios do not contain vernacular glosses). Lemoine (1985: 17–22) has shown that some glosses and readings of [Lat. 10290](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/146) may have been taken from this MS, at a time when both codices were present in the same library-scriptorium (probably in the early tenth century, perhaps at Chartres). The place of origin of this MS is uncertain: in 1895, Clerval suggested that it was written during the ninth century at Chartres, but he did not provide any evidence to support his view (Clerval 1895: 16). In fact, it is perfectly possible (if not probable) that this MS was written in Brittany (as tentatively suggested in Lemoine 1985b: 61). On account of the presence of few Germanic and Romance glosses in addition to the Old Breton and Latin ones, Fleuriot (1960: 174) suggested that it was written at Redon—an interesting idea, which however is currently impossible to prove. No number; vol. III, p. 159 Bauer 2008: 82–5; Bauer 2014; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc72020j); Cinato 2015: 561–2; Cinato 2017: 108 (n. 89); _DGVB_ 5, 8; Fleuriot 1960: 156–74; Hofman 1996: 38; Kerlouégan 1982b: 318; Kerlouégan 1990: 318; Lambert 1982: 173; Lemoine 1985: 17–22, 288; Lemoine 1985b: 46, 60–3; Passalacqua 1978: 243 (§530); _PMSB_ 310 (§82); Schrijver 2011: 9; Smith 1992: 172 (n. 106). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/145 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/145 13 22 282 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:38:22.000000Z 145 283 Redon Possibly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 282 2 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 145 284 North-Western Francia Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:38:22.000000Z 145 285 Chartres Possibly 48°26'53.1"N 1°29'17.3"E coordinates for Chartres 48.448083 1.488139 284 4 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 145 49 BnF Paris 3 14 30 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10550775c 146 MS Lat. 10290 Whole MS (247 fols) IX 2/2 851 900 Echternach - Depiction of two figures, possibly Priscian donating his book to the emperor (1r) - Excerpt from Augustine, _De doctrina Christiana_ II, 3–4, and grammatical glosses (1v) - First _accessus_ to Priscian (2r) - Fragment of a glossary and excerpt from Bede, _De orthographia_, followed by a second _accessus_ to Priscian (possibly added at a later stage) (2v) - Priscian, _Institutiones grammaticae_, with abundant scholia (3r-246r) - List of Greek grammatical terms, inc. _Gramaticæ artis nomina grece notata_ (246r) - Excerpt from Cyrus Fortunatianus, _De rhetorica_ (possibly added in the tenth century) (246v-247v). 1 1 For a long time the origin of this MS has been placed in Brittany by modern scholars, mostly on account of its substantial corpus of Brittonic glosses—nearly 300—existing side by side with a significant number of Old Irish glosses (approximately 50) and an enormous amount of Latin glosses. However, in recent years this old 'orthodoxy' has been seriously called into question, especially by Franck Cinato (2015: 562–7), mostly on palaeographical grounds: according to Cinato, this MS was written in a Frankish scriptorium, possibly at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (according to a suggestion made by Vezin), or in the area of Soissons. This striking conclusion raises a number of interesting questions as to the process of formation of the large corpus of vernacular glosses of Lat. 10290, which must be seen as the complex superposition of a number of distinct strata. The earliest stratum of vernacular glosses is undoubtedly the Old Irish one; indeed, the _recensio_ of the text of Priscian's _Institutiones_ in this MS also belongs to the Irish tradition (Lemoine 1985: 17; Cinato 2015: 565). The latest stratum is in all likelihood the Old Breton one: remarkably, in addition to the corruption of Old Irish glosses that the Breton glossator(s) could not understand, Lambert (1982: 210; 1994: 102–3; 2018: 29–33) has nonetheless also identified a number of glosses in which a Breton word has been written near to its Old Irish equivalent, as well as glosses where Irish words have been 'Bretonised' or replaced by a Breton calque; these phenomena imply a certain degree of knowledge of Old Irish on the part of the Breton glossator(s), or at least a recognition of some commonalities between the two Celtic languages in question (cf. Lemoine 1985b: 59, 'Si certaines bretonnisations du vieil-irlandais peuvent être expliquées par la simillitude des deux langues [...], il semble que d'autres adaptations ou calques aient nécessité de la part des glossateurs bretons une connaissance au moins approximative de l'irlandais'). In his dictionary of Old Breton (_DGVB_ 30–1), Fleuriot also drew attention to the presence of Old Welsh glosses in this same MS; while on the one hand this fact is not sufficient to argue that the Brittonic glosses should be attributed to a Welshman 'ayant fréquenté le cercle des Irlandais implantés dans le nord de la France et l'Allemagne occidentale' (Cinato 2015: 567)—many glosses are undoubtedly Breton and _not_ Welsh, and at least two Welsh glosses may have been 'Bretonised' (cf. _DGVB_ 31; Lambert 2018: 34)—, on the other hand the presence of such a Welsh stratum lends itself to several possible explanations. Perhaps an archetype originating from Ireland (and belonging to a line of transmission particularly close to that of the famous Saint Gall Priscian, i.e. Saint Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 904, cf. Cinato 2017: 98) was first copied in a Welsh centre, and a number of Welsh glosses were added to that codex, which later reached the Frankish area where it was eventually copied by a Breton scribe working outside of Brittany. Alternatively, an ancestor of Lat. 10290 may have been written in a Welsh centre where Irish and Welsh scholars collaborated (cf. the case of the famous Cambridge Juvencus), and this lost exemplar, bearing glosses in both Irish and Welsh, later reached the Frankish scriptorium where the Breton stratum was finally added. However, none of these explanations is without problems (for other hypothetical solutions, see Lambert 2018: 34–5; for arguments in favour of the existence of a 'Celtic glossing tradition' in relation to Priscian's _Institutiones_, see Bauer 2014). In any case, it is interesting to observe that an analogous coexistence of Irish, Welsh and Breton materials also characterises the computistical glosses of [Angers, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 477](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/9). As for the subsequent history of our Priscian codex, Lemoine (1985: 17–22; 1985b: 46, 60–3) made the important observation that some of the glosses and textual corrections that were added by Lambert's tenth-century 'hand C' (cf. Lambert 1982: 179–81; Cinato 2017: 108) correspond to, and may have been copied from, glosses and readings in [Paris, BnF, Lat. 10289](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/145); this fact indicates that Lat. 10290 and [Lat. 10289](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/145) must have been present in the same library-scriptorium for a certain period of time in the early tenth century, perhaps at Chartres (cf. Cinato 2015: 562, 564, 566). 4623 Bachellery 1964; Bauer 2008: 85–126; Bauer 2014; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc12418b); Bronner 2017: 40–1; Charles-Edwards 2012: 400 (n. 63); Cinato 2015: 66, 562–7; Cinato 2017 (esp. 84, n. 4); _CLH_ §803; _DGVB_ 5, 8, 31–2; Dumville 2005: 57; Hofman 1996: 35–8; Hofman 2000: 258–63; Jeudy 1984–5: 133; Kerlouégan 1982b: 318; Lambert 1982; Lambert 1994: 102–3; Lambert 2018: 28–35; Lemoine 1985: 16–24, 220–7, 288, 367–76; Lemoine 1985b; Lemoine 2008: 188, 190; Lemoine 2010: 223; [_MIrA_](http://www.mira.ie/028); Ó Cróinín 1999: 88; Passalacqua 1978: 244 (§531); _PMSB_ 310–11 (§83); Riché 2004: 20; Schrijver 2011: 9; Simpson (McKee) 1994: 115; Smith 1992: 172 (n. 106). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/146 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/146 13 9 22 38 286 Northern Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:39:18.000000Z 146 287 Saint-Germain-des-Prés Possibly 48°51'14.2"N 2°20'05.0"E coordinates for Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris 48.853944 2.334722 286 2 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 146 288 Soissons Possibly 49°22'51.3"N 3°19'30.6"E coordinates for Soissons 49.380917 3.325167 286 3 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 146 49 BnF Paris 4 14 30 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84790031 147 MS Lat. 11411 {A} 6th C.U. (fols 99-100) IX 2/3 834 866 Echternach See the entry for [Luxembourg, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 89](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/83). 1 1 See the entry for [Luxembourg, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 89](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/83). 2534 See [Luxembourg, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 89](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/83). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/147 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/147 16 289 Eastern Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:37:52.000000Z 147 290 North-Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 147 49 BnF Paris 31 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84386681 148 MS Lat. 11411 {B} 7th C.U. (fols 101-102) IX med. 825 875 - Echternach - Saint-Victor (Paris)? _Hisperica Famina_, recension D. 1 1 As correctly shown in Bischoff's _Kat._ §4683, this bifolium (fols 101–102), which is the only surviving copy of recension D of the _Hisperica Famina_, must come from an entirely different MS than fols 99–100 of the miscellaneous codex now bearing the shelfmark Lat. 11411 (for fols 99–100, see the entry for [Luxembourg, Bibl. Nationale, MS 89](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/83) in the present Handlist), in spite of the fact that the latter folios also contain the _Hisperica Famina_, albeit in recensions B and C (_pace_ Grosjean 1956: 38, who erroneously claimed that 'les recensions B, C et D proviennent d'un même manuscrit d'Echternach, aujourd'hui divisé entre Luxembourg et Paris'). Interestingly, both fragments contain Old Breton glosses: in his discussion of the glosses on recension D found at fols 101–102, Lambert (1989: 86–8; 1994: 103) has suggested that one or two of them may depend on an Old Irish model. In particular, in relation to the gloss _enchehen dame_ (gl. Lat. _stibulor_), Lambert has concluded that this gloss 'n'est ni du breton, ni de l'irlandais: c'est un mélange des deux, avec en plus des aberrations graphiques' (Lambert 1989: 88). Bischoff had no hesitation in ascribing this fragment to Brittany in his _Katalog_, presumably on the basis of its script and vernacular glosses. 4683 Bauer 2008: 126–7; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc873753); _DGVB_ 5; Grosjean 1956: 37–8; Herren 1974a: 8–10; Jenkinson 1908: xxxiv–xxxvi; Lambert 1989: 84–8; Lambert 1994: 103; Lemoine 1985: 288; Lemoine 2010: 220, 223; _L&S_ §328; _PMSB_ 311 (§84); Smith 1992: 171 (n. 98). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/148 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/148 16 291 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:14:36.000000Z 148 49 BnF Paris 1 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84386681 149 MS Lat. 11589 Whole MS (178 fols) X ex. / XI in. 976 1025 - Saint-Corneille de Compiègne (Oise)? - Saint-Germain-des-Prés - Calendar (probably added in the 11th century) (1r-7v) - Computistical table with _regulae mensium_, epacts, _claues terminorum_, _terminus septuagesimae_, _terminus quadragesimae_, _terminus paschalis_, _terminus rogationum_, _terminus pentecosten_, and poem _Nonne apr(ilis) norunt (quinos)_ (2r-v, 8r) - Oration _Suscipe sancta tri<ni>tas_ (2v) - Prayers in various hands and _Excusatio sacerdotis_ (8v-10v) - Gregorian Sacramentary (10v-178v). 0 0 The calendar placed at the beginning of the MS contains the names of numerous Breton saints (cf. _ILLB_ SM221, p. 112); however, these folios were probably added in the eleventh century. Nevertheless, prayers and masses to Samson, Machutus, Guoetgualus, Meuuinus and Judicaelus do occur in the main body of the MS, at fols 12v, 90v, 96v, 111r-v, 113v. This MS also contains two passages presenting Breton musical notation (fols 33v and 80v), and remarkable insular-like decorated initials can be seen, e.g., at fols 11r and 11v. _Pace_ Duine (1922: 23–8), there seem to be no strong reasons to doubt the Breton origin of Lat. 11589, although the attribution to the abbey of Saint-Méen (in the diocesis of Saint-Malo) is perhaps less certain than is indicated in _CMD_ III, 247 (cf. _ILLB_ SM221, p. 111, 'L'identification reste discutée, le manuscrit est complexe'). n/a [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc73113c); _CMD_ III, 247; Deuffic 2011: 67; _DGVB_ 8; Duine 1922: 23–33; Huglo 1963: 60–1; _ILLB_ SM221; _L&S_ §969, 980; _PMSB_ 311 (§85); Schrijver 2011: 9. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/149 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/149 6 4 30 292 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-18T15:39:42.000000Z 149 293 Saint-Méen Possibly 48°11'16.6"N 2°11'36.3"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Méen 48.187944 -2.193417 292 2 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 149 49 BnF Paris 6 7 16 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84274376 150 MS Lat. 12021 {A} 1st C.U. (fols 1-32) IX ex. 876 900 Corbie - Brief hagiographic text, inc. _temporibus piissimi Francorum regis_ (1r) - Anonymous commentary on eighty-one biblical passages (1v-27v) - _Catena_ of excerpts from patristic authors (27v-32v). 1 1 Bischoff (_Kat._ §4723) attributed this unit to the same scriptorium where the next item in the present Handlist was written (i.e., [Paris, BnF, MS Lat. 12021 {B}](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151)). The list of contents offered here is based on Flechner 2019: I, 139. The late ninth-century dating is taken from _Kat._ §4723; however, a possible late tenth-century date for this codicological unit is discussed in Flechner 2019: I, 138. 4723 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc73379d); Flechner 2019: I, 137–41; Lemoine 2005: 21; Lambert 1994: 98, 104; _PMSB_ 311–12 (§86); 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-07-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/150 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/150 2 17 294 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:58.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:15:33.000000Z 150 49 BnF Paris 1 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9066657p 151 MS Lat. 12021 {B} 2nd C.U. (fols 33-139) IX 801 900 Corbie - Recension A of the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, complete copy (33r-127v) - Canons of Theodore, recension D (or _Capitula Dacheriana_) (127v-132v) - _Canones Adomnani_ (132v-133v) - Conciliar canons (133v-134v) - Extracts from the Penitential of Finnian (134v-135r) - _Excerpta de libris Romanorum et Francorum_ (also known as _Canones Wallici_), recension P (135r-138r) - _De disputatione Hibernensis sinodi_, _De arreis_ (138r-139r) - Long scribal colophon in 'Hisperic' Latin copied from the exemplar, mentioning the Breton names _Arbedoc_ (designated as _clericus_) and _Haelhucar_ (designated as _abbas_), inc. _Mihi xraxanti literas missereatur Trinitas_ (139r) - Text on the ages of the world, inc. _Ex Adam in diluuium_ (139v) - Text on world chronology, inc. _Prologus in quo supputat ab Adam usque ad Ninum_ (139v) - Text inc. _Narcisus Hierosolimorum episcopus_ (139v). 1 1 The date of this codicological unit is heavily disputed (cf. Flechner 2019: I, 137), and for this reason I have opted for a generic ninth-century dating (whereas a more precise ascription to the third quarter of the ninth century is proposed in _Kat._ §4724; moreover, in this entry Bischoff attributed this codicological unit to the same scriptorium where the previous item in the present Handlist , i.e. [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021 {A}](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/150), was written). This MS was chosen by Flechner as the basis for his edition of recension A of the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_, mostly for the following reasons: 1. it offers a complete copy of this text (i.e., inclusive of a preface to the whole _Collectio_ and an introductory section on synods); 2. it reproduces its sources rather faithfully; 3. it is the only copy of the _Hibernensis_ to preserve the attribution to the Irish compilers Ruben of Dairinis and Cú Chuimne of Iona (fol. 127v); 4. in addition to containing some Old Breton glosses, this is the only complete copy to feature Old Irish glosses, which were in all likelihood copied from an earlier exemplar (Flechner 2019: I, 117–18; the list of contents offered in the present Handlist is based on Flechner 2019: I, 139–40; note that some corrupted Old Irish glosses may also be preserved in [Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 221](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99)). One of the most notable characteristics of this MS is certainly the long colophon occurring at fol. 139r (ed. Flechner 2019: I, 140), which Lemoine has argued to be a 'compilation' of earlier colophons and scribal annotations (Lemoine 2001: 261–4, esp. p. 263, 'nous avons à faire à un ensemble hétéroclite qui semble être une somme de colophons'). In addition to presenting most interesting elements of Hisperic vocabulary (cf. Lemoine 1995: 12), this text mentions a scribe named _Arbedoc clericus_ and an abbot (_abbas_) whose name is spelt _Haelhucar_: the latter may be the man who was bishop of Alet and abbot of Saint-Méen at Gaël (roughly 40 km west of Rennes) in the early ninth century (the name _Helogar_ occurs in a diploma of Louis the Pious of AD 816; cf. Deuffic 2008: 110); otherwise (but perhaps less likely), this individual could correspond to _Heclocar_ (possibly a scribal corruption for _Hael(h)ocar_?), i.e. the abbot of Saint-Jacut in the bishopric of Dol, mentioned in a letter addressed in AD 874/5 by Pope John VII to Maen, bishop of Dol (for more details and references, cf. Guillotel 1985: 36; Flechner 2008: 31–2; Flechner 2019: I, 139). In any case, the presence of this colophon gives us a virtual certainty that this MS was written in a Breton monastery. We should also mention a recent intriguing suggestion made by Lambert (2018: 25–6): the word _humunculo_, used in this colophon, may be a Latinization of the Irish name _Adomnán_, and as a consequence the section of the colophon where this word occurs could be related to the _Canones Adomnani_, a copy of which is indeed present in this MS at fols 132v-133v. Lemoine (2010: 219, n. 19) has drawn attention to the Corbie provenance of this manuscript, pointing out that 'plusieurs mss bretons proviennent de cette grande abbaye royale' (in addition to the present codex, cf. also [Paris, BnF, Lat. 13029](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/155) and [Lat. 13386](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/158); to these we should add at least [Lat. 13957](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/160) and, possibly, [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/118)). 4724 Bauer 2008: 127–9; Bénédictins du Bouveret 1965–82: I, 161 (§1304); Bieler 1963: 14, 20–4; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc73379d); Bradshaw 1889: 412, 414–15, 473, 487; Bronner 2017: 66–7; _CLH_ 751 (§580), 760 (§586), 786 (§618), 790–1 (§621); _CMD_ III, 732; Deuffic 2008: 128 (n. 220), 136 (n. 268, 'Xe s.'); _DGVB_ 5; Dumville 1994: 93; Dumville 2004: 167; Flechner 2003–4: 131–3; Flechner 2008: 29–32; Flechner 2019: I, 117–8, 137–41; Fleuriot 1985: 167, 71–83; Guillotel 1985: 32, 34, 36; Lambert 2018: 20, 25–6; Lemoine 1985: 288; Lemoine 1995: 12; Lemoine 2001: 261–4; Lemoine 2010: 219 (n. 19); [_MIrA_](http://www.mira.ie/248); _PMSB_ 311–12 (§86); Riché 2004: 21; Schrijver 2011: 9; Smith 1992: 168 (n. 83); Stokes 1879–80: 327–8, 338–41. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/151 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151 25 10 295 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 151 49 BnF Paris 7 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9066657p 152 MS Lat. 12281 Whole MS (163 fols) IX 1/2 801 850 - Corbie - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bede, Commentary to Luke's Gospel (lacunose and incomplete). 0 0 Lindsay (1915) tentatively attributed this MS to Brittany on the basis of its numerous insular abbreviations. However, Bischoff (_Kat._ §4815) suggested a completely different attribution: in his view, this MS was written somewhere near Burgundy ('Wohl aus einem Randgebiet Burgunds'). Indeed, there do not seem to be convincing elements in favour of a Breton origin. 4815 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc73598x); Lindsay 1915:15, 94, 141, 165, 284; _PMSB_ 312 (§87). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/152 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/152 2 296 (Near) Burgundy Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 152 49 BnF Paris 4 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9066834c 153 MS Lat. 12942 Whole MS (146 fols) XI ex. / XII in. 1076 1125 - Cluny? - Montpellier? - Saint-Maur-des-Fossés? - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. - Bede, _Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum_ (1r-106v) - _Vita et miracula sancti Leonardi confessoris_ (107r-112v) - Empty folio (113r) - _Vita prima sancti Pauli Aureliani_ (113v-130r) - _Defloratio canonum secundum Amelarium_ (130r-138v) - Remigius of Auxerre, _Expositio missae_ (_Incipit quedam defloratio cuiusdam sapientis super missam, Domini scilicet Remigii Autisiodorensis_) (138v-145v) - Pseudo-Methodius, _Revelationes_ (incomplete fragment) (145v-146v). 1 0 This MS contains a copy of the _Vita prima_ of Saint Paul Aurelian, probably deriving, directly or indirectly, from a Breton exemplar/archetype. In this respect, it is worth citing Poulin's words at length: 'Ce témoin possède un ancêtre commun avec le ms. d'Orléans [= [Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 261 {A}](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/100) and [MS 261 {B}](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/101)]; c’est de là que leur viennent une même numérotation des chapitres et leurs gloses latines et bretonnes communes [...]. En position interlinéaire, ces gloses sont introduites par la lettre "i" accolée de points (= _id est_ [the abbreviation in question is _.i._]), ce qui a été reconnu depuis longtemps comme une abréviation typique non seulement de l’usage insulaire, mais également breton. Cet ancêtre commun doit se rapprocher sensiblement de l’autographe de Gurmonoc' (Poulin 2009: 272). For an edition of the parallel Old Breton and Latin glosses occurring in [Orléans 261](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/101) and Lat. 12942, see Poulin 2009: 298–9. The following metrical colophon can be read at the end of the copy of Bede's _Historia ecclesiastica_, at fol. 106v: _Anglus me pinxit Radulf(us) Bedaq(ue) finxit. Virtus summa D(e)i tu sis illis requiei. Qui legit ista tam(en) supplico dicat amen_. n/a [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74069t); Poulin 2009: 271–2, 298–9. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/153 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/153 25 40 11 19 4 297 Northern Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 153 298 île-de-France Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 153 49 BnF Paris 2 15 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90768085 154 MS Lat. 12957 5th C.U. (fols 96r-100v) IX 801 900 - Corbie - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. - Preface to the Psalter in dialogue form, bearing the title _In Dei nomine incipit prefatio Psalterii_ and inc. _Prophetia quid est? M. Aspiratio uidelicet diuina, Cassiodoro senatore ita testante_ (96r-99r). - Notes (including a list of individuals—some of them abbots—associated with Corbie), ex-libris, drawings and _probationes pennae_ of different dates (99v-100v). 0 0 In his _Katalog_ (_Kat._ §4848), Bischoff tentatively suggested an ascription of this codicological unit to Brittany—an attribution followed, however, by a tell-tale question mark. Indeed, pending a more detailed palaeographical analysis, such a Breton origin is no more than a possibility. Regardless, it should be noted that the unpublished text at fols 96r-99r is a most interesting dialogue on the Psalter. Several patristic authorities are invoked throughout the text, e.g. Cassiodorus, Augustine, Jerome, Isidore, Ambrose, Hilary of Poitiers and Eucherius (spelt _Etherius_); at fol. 97r, the _magister_ lists a number of musical instruments which the ancient Hebrews used to performs the Psalms (_organis citharis nablis timpanis cymbalis tubis_; cf. also fol. 98r concerning the _nablum_ and the _organum_). A comparison of this tracts with Hiberno-Latin Psalter commentaries, as well as with the texts belonging to the (originally Irish?) tradition of the Pseudo-Jerome's _Epistula ad Dardanum_ (cf. Bisagni 2015b), may be useful. 4848 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc740841); Colette 2009: 86. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-07-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/154 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/154 2 299 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 154 49 BnF Paris 3 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10546772s 155 MS Lat. 13029 Whole MS (59 fols) IX ex. 876 900 - Abbey of Saint-Julien of Tours (s. X in.) - Corbie - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. - Smaragdus, _Liber in partibus Donati_ (1r-59v) This MS also contains many interesting marginalia, added by several hands at various dates. These include: - _Albi bis bini procedunt_ (solution 3 of the arithmetical _ludus_ of fol. 11v, mentioning two Irishmen—referred to as _Hiberienses_—named Dub and Find) (2r) - _Bis duo nam niuei praesunt et quinque nigelli_ (solution 3 of the arithmetical _ludus_ of fol. 11v) (4r) - Grammatical excerpt _Vesper Vespere Vesperum Vespera_ (ultimately based on a passage from the _Epitomae_ of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus) (9v) - Grammatical passage, inc. _Encleticae sunt quattuor partes_, possibly based on Priscian's _Institutiones Grammaticae_ (9v) - _Accessus_ excerpted from the commentary to Sedulius's _Carmen Paschale_ by Remigius of Auxerre, inc. _VII sunt periochae id est circumstantię_ (9v, inf. marg.) - Presentation and solution 1 of the _versus_ or _ludus Scottorum_ inc. _Quadam nocte niger Dub nomine Candidus alter_, with the Irish names Dub and Find (cf. _find interpraetatur candidus, dub niger_ at fol. 12r, inf. marg.) (11v-12r) - _Carmen_ 42 by Eugenius of Toledo, inc. _Hęc sunt ambiguę_ (12r; other excerpts from works by Eugenius occur at fol. 28v) - _Carmen_ 8 by Alcuin, inc. _Est mihi seruili scripulus_, addressed to Samuel of Sens (12r) - Blessings of possible Breton origin (17v-18r) - Metrical epitaph of Louis IV Transmarinus (added around the middle of the 10th century) (18v) - Letter of recommendation from Odger to Tetelo and Uualterius (probably written at Saint-Julien of Tours between AD 914 and 927) (19v) Detailed descriptions of these marginalia can be found in Holtz and Lambert 1986: 174–6; Dubreucq 2017: 128–42. 1 1 This MS, which contains a copy of Smaragdus's _Liber in partibus Donati_, must have reached the area of Corbie at a relatively early stage, given that at least some of the numerous and important marginalia contained therein may have been added there (cf. Cinato 2012: 43, n. 66; cf. also Lemoine 2010: 219, n. 19, where the author points out that 'plusieurs mss bretons proviennent de cette grande abbaye royale', listing, in addition to the present codex, [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151) and [Lat. 13386](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/158); to these we should add [Lat. 13957](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/160) and, possibly, [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/118)). In relation to the marginalia, it should also be stressed that some of them present strong Irish affiliations (cf. esp. fols 2r, 4r, 9v and 11v-12r; for these arithmetical riddles, cf. Murphy 1942; Howlett 2010; Dubreucq 2017: 132–9; _CLH_ §417; see also the entry for [Valenciennes, BM, MS 413](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/221) in the present Handlist). We can hardly doubt the Breton origin of this MS (which was indeed accepted by Bischoff in _Kat._ §4866), or at the very least of its exemplar. As has been pointed out by Holtz (in Holtz and Lambert 1986: 177), 'l'implantation des gloses bretonnes, l'étude des abréviations et de l'écriture sont autant de preuves convergentes que le manuscrit a été copié en Bretagne.' After all, the presence of Smaragdus's grammar in Brittany is also confirmed by Bili's use of this text as a source for his Life of Saint Malo (Holtz and Lambert 1986: 196). Among the vernacular glosses, we should note in particular the Old Breton noun used at fol. 24v to render Lat. _cumpotum_, namely _rim_ (cf. Holtz and Lambert 1986: 207), corresponding perfectly to OIr. _rím_. The presence of a Romance gloss (Lat. _pumex_, 'pumice stone', glossed _.i. poins_ at fol. 7r, cf. Modern French _ponce_) suggests that this MS (or perhaps its exemplar, or at least some of its glosses) may have been produced in a centre close to Romance-speaking areas; indeed, the main scribe of Lat. 13029 was probably not Breton-speaking, so that either the scriptorium of Redon, or perhaps a foundation located in or near the Breton _marca_, should be considered as serious possibilities (cf. Holtz and Lambert 1986: 200, and the entry for [Paris, BnF, Lat. 10289](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/145) in the present Handlist). In this context, it is also important to recall that Fleuriot, in addition to demonstrating that the language of the Celtic glosses in Lat. 13029 is Old Breton and not Old Cornish (Fleuriot 1960), also stated that the MS in question is similar in format and script to [Angers, BM, 477](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/9), and that it 'provient certainement du même scriptorium' (_DGVB_ 6; cf. also Fleuriot 1960: 189). However, this rapprochement has recently been called into question by Dubreucq (2017: 144), who has proposed instead that this MS was either (1) written in the diocese of Vannes and later brought to the abbey of Saint-Julien of Tours—a centre which it must have reached by the first third of the tenth century—, or (2) copied at Saint-Julien of Tours from a lost exemplar written in the area of Vannes (cf. Dubreucq 2017: 128–31, 142–4). In any case, the exemplar of Lat. 13029 must have already contained glosses in Old Breton (cf. Dubreucq 2017: 126, 128). 4866 Bauer 2008: 129–30; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74150m); Cinato 2012: 43 (n. 66), 59; _CLH_ §417; _DGVB_ 6; Dubreucq 2017; Fleuriot 1960: 183–9; Ganz 1990: 66; Holtz and Lambert 1986; Howlett 2010; Lemoine 1985: 290; Lemoine 2008: 192; Lemoine 2010: 219 (n. 19); Lindsay 1912: 265; Murphy 1942; Olson and Padel 1986: 39–40; _PMSB_ 312 (§88); Schrijver 2011: 9; Smith 1992: 169 (n. 89); Springer 1995: 173. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/155 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/155 13 21 300 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:39:11.000000Z 155 301 Redon Possibly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 300 2 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 155 302 Vannes Possibly 47°39'28.6"N 2°45'24.3"W coordinates for Vannes 47.657944 -2.756750 300 3 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 155 303 Western Francia Possibly 4 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:00:34.000000Z 155 304 Saint-Julien of Tours Possibly 47°23'45.2"N 0°41'15.1"E coordinates for Saint-Julien of Tours 47.395889 0.687528 303 5 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 155 49 BnF Paris 1 15 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10546785j 156 MS Lat. 13169 Whole MS (166 fols) X 901 1000 - Angers (Saint-Serge) - Saint-Maur-des-Fossés - Le Mans (Notre-Dame) - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (1r-3r) - Preface to the four Gospels(3v-6r) - Preface to Matthew's Gospel (6r-7v) - Eusebian Canon tables (8v-11r) - Gospel of Matthew (12r-50v) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface (51r-78r) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface (78v-117v) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (118r-155r) - _Capitulare evangeliorum de circulo anni_ (155r-166v). 0 1 The decoration of this Gospel-book is certainly close to the Breton group, and, significantly, the text of the Gospels in this MS belongs to the 'Irish family' (Vezin 1974: 47; on the decoration, cf. also Kitzinger 2013b: 41). Moreover, Lemoine (2001: 264–7) has drawn attention to a number of specific textual readings agreeing with other Breton gospel-book. Accordingly, a tenth-century Breton origin seems probable. In its later history this MS followed a rather tortuous path: it was probably in Angers in the eleventh century (Vezin 1974: 48), and from there it reached the abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (near Paris), and then Le Mans. Eventually, it was brought to the BnF from Saint-Germain-des-Prés (_ILLB_ In22b, p. 59). No number; vol. III, p. 203 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74254r); _EBGB_ 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In22b; Kitzinger 2013b: 41; Lemoine 2001: 264–7; Lemoine 2008: 194; _PMSB_ 312 (§89); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 290; Vezin 1974: 47–8. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/156 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/156 1 305 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:16:21.000000Z 156 49 BnF Paris 1 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10500013s 157 MS Lat. 13346 2nd C.U. (fols 113-132) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Saint-Germain-des-Prés - Julian of Toledo, _Incipiunt capitula excerpta ex libro prognosticorum Iuliani Toletane sedis episcopi_ (113v-132r) - Religious poem, inc. _O fragilis mundi res fallere_ (added) (113r, 132v). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §4890) ascribed this codicological unit to Brittany and tentatively dated it to the late ninth or early tenth century. The script of these excerpts from Julian of Toledo's _Prognosticum futuri saeculi_ does seem compatible with a Breton origin, but only a detailed palaeographical analysis may place this hypothesis on a more solid footing. This MS was probably bound _in quaternionibus_, with the first and the last folios (respectively 113r and 132v) serving as 'covers'. A slightly later hand (s. X med.?), possibly Breton or West-Frankish, wrote a curious and rather long poem on these folios, inc. _O fragilis mundi res fallere ... omnes_, des. _uita beata sed e(st) consors iustis sine calce_ (to my knowledge, this interesting poem is still unpublished). 4890 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74372v). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/157 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/157 21 34 40 306 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 157 49 BnF Paris 3 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52500120j 158 MS Lat. 13386 4th C.U. (fols 208-219) IX 3/4 876 900 - Corbie? - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Liosmonocus, _Libellulus sacerdotalis_ (with interlinear glosses). 0 0 Although a Corbie ex-libris occurs at fol. 1r, it is not sure whether the specific codicological unit considered here (fols 208–219) was ever in Corbie; in any case, it was certainly not written there (note that the Corbie provenance is accepted in Deuffic 2008: 125 and Lemoine 2010: 219, n. 19, where the author points out that 'plusieurs mss bretons proviennent de cette grande abbaye royale', listing, in addition to the present codex, [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151) and [Lat. 13029](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/155); to these we should add [Lat. 13957](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/160) and, possibly, [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/118)). The _Libellulus sacerdotalis_—of which this is the only surviving copy—begins with an informative _titulus_: _Incipit libellulus sacerdotalis quem Liosmonocus heroico met[ro compo]suit. Lege in pace_. This may well be the same _Liosmonocus_ whose name also appears in a colophon in [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192). This individual appears to have been a Breton scribe / scholar active during the ninth century, in Brittany and/or at Fleury, and he might also be the scribe of some of the works copied in the Vatican MSS [Reg.lat.81](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/190) and [Reg.lat.1260](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/201) (cf. Grosjean 1956: 38–40). The _Libellulus sacerdotalis_ (edited in 1899 by De Winterfeld in _MGH Poetae Latini aevi Carolini_, vol. IV, 1, pp. 276–95) is an interesting (and still under-studied) religious poem in hexameters, adopting some Hisperic vocabulary (cf., e.g., Grosjean 1956: 40; Lemoine 2010: 219). In conclusion, a Breton origin for this MS is certainly possible, but if it is true that Liosmonocus worked at Fleury at least for some time, an origin in that scriptorium cannot be ruled out either. 4912 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74411j); Deuffic 2008: 125; _DGVB_ 7; Dumville 2005: 59–60; Ganz 1990: 156; Grosjean 1956: 38–40; Guillotel 1985: 25–6; Lemoine 2010: 219; _L&S_ §829; _PMSB_ 313 (§90); Riché 2004: 20; Smith 1992: 170 (n. 92). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/158 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/158 16 21 307 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:01:09.000000Z 158 308 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:01:09.000000Z 158 309 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 308 3 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 158 49 BnF Paris 3 32 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10525100r 159 MS Lat. 13686 Whole MS (28 fols) IX 2/2 851 900 - Collection of Pierre Daniel - Collection of Jacques Bongars - Collection of C. Labbe - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. - Egyptian Days (fragment) (1r) - Collection of legal _formulae_, known as _Formulae Bignonianae_ (1v-28v). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §4928) ascribed this MS to 'Nördliches Frankreich (Nähe zur Bretagne)', presumbaly on the basis of its script. There seems to be no reason to attribute it to Brittany itself, but it should also be noted that an origin in Fleury is excluded in _LF_ §1212. The MS begins (fol. 1r only) with a fragment of the prognostic text known as 'Egyptian Days.' 4928 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74600f); _LF_ BF1212. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/159 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/159 26 5 310 Northern Francia (near Brittany) Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 159 49 BnF Paris 4 9 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525024836 160 MS Lat. 13957 2nd C.U. (fols 9-46) IX ex. 876 900 - Corbie - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Alcuin, _Dialogus Franconis et Saxonis de octo partibus orationis_. 0 0 According to Bischoff (_Kat._ §4950) this MS was probably written in Brittany, presumably on account of its script (notice also the frequent use of the abbreviation _ɔ_ for _con_, e.g. at fol. 11r). In support of Bischoff's view, it is indeed worth noting that Alcuin's grammatical dialogue occurs in at least two further MSS with prominent Breton connections: the fragment [Merseburg, Domstiftsbibliothek, MS 204](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/85), and [Saint-Omer, BM, 666](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/210). It is therefore possible that this text was of particular interest to Breton ecclesiastical _literati_ working in Brittany, or, perhaps, in the area of Tours. It is also worth recording the faint entry _In nomene Dei sumi_ [sic] _amen_ (perhaps a _probatio pennae_?) written in the top margin of fol. 9r (the formula _In nomine Dei summi_ has well-known insular affiliations). 4950 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74843b). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/160 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/160 13 311 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:39:59.000000Z 160 49 BnF Paris 1 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9076782c 161 MS Lat. 14088 {A} Fols 23-25 VIII ex. 776 800 - Fleury - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bede, _De temporum ratione_ (fragment, chapters 15 and 16 only). 0 0 According to Ganz (1990: 140), fols 23r-25v of this miscellaneous codex may have originally belonged to the Fleury MS [Bern, Burgebibliothek, 207](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/22); however, it seems that Bischoff (_Kat._ §4958) disagreed with this view ('nicht Teil von BERN, Burgerbibl., Ms. 207'; cf. also Beeson 1947: 80, '... written in a hand conspicuously different from all the rest, a script closely resembling, but not identical with, that of the _codex mutilus_ Bern 207 + Paris 7520'). It is worth mentioning that these folios, written in an early form of Caroline minuscule, present numerous insular abbreviations and palaeographical features (including several instances of Anglo-Saxon _ð_). 4958 Beeson 1947: 78–9; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74929j); Ganz 1990: 140; Holtz 1981: 378; _LF_ §1215. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/161 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/161 6 312 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:01:32.000000Z 161 313 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 312 2 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 161 49 BnF Paris 2 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9076764f 162 MS Lat. 14088 {B} Fols 99-117 IX / X 801 1000 - Corbie - Saint-Germain-des-Prés. - _Ordo Romanus_ (acephalous fragment) (98r-116r) - Added scholia (probably on Boethius's _De Hebdomadibus_), diagram of _genera_, _species_ and _substantiae_, and theological notes (s. X/XI?) (116r-117v). 0 0 According to Bischoff (_Kat._ §4959) these folios were written in Brittany, on account of their script. This view seems plausible, but it may only be confirmed through a detailed palaeographical assessment. Regardless of the manuscript's origin, it is worth mentioning that some scholia on Boethius's _De Hebdomadibus_, added (perhaps in tenth- or eleventh-century Corbie?) on fol. 116r, contain the following gloss: _Ebdo per b 'concipio', per p epdomamada_ [sic] _significat 'tempus'_. Similar glosses can be found elsewhere in the context of Boethian scholia (e.g. [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12957](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/154), fol. 12r); moreover, in some MSS the orthography _epdomada_ (with _p_ instead of _b_) for the word meaning 'week' has significant Irish and Breton affiliations (cf. Bisagni 2020a: 37–47, esp. n. 110). 4959 Andrieu 1922: 321; Bisagni 2020a: 46 (n. 110); [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc74929j). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/162 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/162 4 23 314 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:21:59.000000Z 162 49 BnF Paris 3 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9076764f 163 MS Lat. 16700 {A} 1st C.U. (fols 1-55) IX 3/4 851 875 Paris (Sorbonne) - Unidentified text in 'Greek' (?) interspersed with Latin words (glosses?), followed by an excerpt from Bede's _Expositio Actuum Apostolorum_ (inc. _Corrupte legitur Bar Iesu cum Bar Ieu id est maleficus_), and glosses on Greek terms (1r) - Brief annotations and _probationes pennae_ in hands of various dates (1v) - Arator, _De actibus apostolorum_ with prefatory _Epistola ad Florianum_ and _Epistola ad Vigilium_ (with abundant scholia) (2r-49v) - Bede, _De die iudicii_ (49v-52r) - Alcuin, _Conflictus veris et hiemis_ (52r-53r) - Augustine, _De perfectione iustitiae hominis_ II, 1-4 and V, 11 (53v-54r) - Pseudo-Columbanus, _Monosticha_, inc. _Haec praecepta legat deuotus et impleat actu_ (incomplete) (54v-55r). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §4983) tentatively suggested that this MS may have been written 'near Brittany', especially on account of the abbreviation for _post_, which presents a nearly fully closed upward arch attached to the bowl of the letter _p_—a shape that Bischoff considered to be specifically Breton. To my knowledge, the abundant scholia on the copy of Arator's _De actibus apostolorum_ contained in this MS have not been studied; such an investigation may well be worthwhile, in light of the possible connections with the Anglo-Saxon tradition of glosses on Arator's works. The copy of Arator's text found in this MS is preceded, on fol. 1r, by a strange unidentified text in 'Greek' (or merely in Greek letters?) interspersed with Latin words (glosses?): while on the one hand it is hard to make any sense of the Greek (possibly a cryptogram?), on the other hand among the Latin words the rare terms _microsmus_ (surely for _micro<co>smus_) and _micrologi_ stand out. Moreover, towards the end of this passage it is possible to read what follows: _inburrim eiΘΓΚΙΖΚo_ (or _-Θ_) _forma accipit KiΛiΗ... aratri_; while at a first glance this may sound like gibberish, in fact these words partially match a line from Virgil's _Georgics_ (I, 169): _in burim et curvi formam accipit ulmus aratri_. The 'Greek' text is followed by a brief excerpt from Bede's _Expositio Actuum Apostolorum_, XIII. Finally, it should be mentioned that the copy of the Pseudo-Columbanian _Monosticha_ at fols 54v-55r is not listed in the entry dedicated to this text in _CLH_ (§471). 4983 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc77121n); Lendinara 1999: 26. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/163 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/163 17 21 2 22 315 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 163 49 BnF Paris 9 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10035387w 164 MS Lat. 16700 {B} 2nd C.U. (fols 56-114) IX 2/2 851 900 Paris (Sorbonne) - Aldhelm, _De uirginitate_, with scholia (56r-96r) - Aldhelm, _Aenigmata_ with scholia, preceded by list of capitula (96r-114r). 0 0 The dating and the localisation proposed by Bischoff (_Kat._ §4984) for these folios, which contain works by Aldhelm and related scholia, are very similar to those suggested for the first codicological unit (fols 1–55) of [Lat. 16700](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/163): third (or fourth) quarter of the ninth century, possibly near Brittany. However, these indications remain to be tested, especially through a detailed palaeographical assessment. 4984 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc77121n). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/164 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/164 21 22 316 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 164 49 BnF Paris 9 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10035387w 165 MS Lat. 17543 Whole MS (154 fols) XII 2/2 1151 1200 Paris (Collège de Navarre) - Orosius, _Historiae adversus paganos_ (here titled _De Hormesta Mundi_) (1r-102v) - Solinus, _Collectanea rerum memorabilium_ (102v-147r) - Richard of Saint Victor, _Opuscula_ (147r-154v). 1 0 Although there is no clear indication that this MS was written in a Breton scriptorium, it may well have been copied from a Breton exemplar (or, alternatively, its contents may ultimately derive from a Breton archetype), as suggested by the single Old Breton gloss to Lat. _trigona_ occurring at fol. 4r (in the right margin): _tricorioc_. Indeed, this same gloss occurs also in [Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 160](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/19) and [Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, MS Voss. Lat. F 13](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/61) (cf. Lambert 1988: 214, where it is correctly pointed out that 'on peut s'attendre [...] à retrouver des gloses bretonnes dans des manuscrits tardifs non bretons, qui ont pu avoir pour modèle des manuscrits bretons'). For more details on the Breton MSS containing glosses to Orosius's _Historiae_, see the entry for [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192) in the present Handlist. n/a [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc44477); Lambert 1988: 214; Lambert 1989: 81–2; Lambert 2018: 40; Lemoine 1985: 291. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/165 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/165 39 19 17 34 317 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 165 318 Northern Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 165 49 BnF Paris 3 11 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10036629s 166 MS Lat. 17872 Fols 92-171 IX 2/2 851 900 Compiègne (Saint-Corneille) An acephalous and incomplete collection of homilies (with at least a few by Heiric of Auxerre) for the whole year. 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §5025) tentatively located the production of these folios (now bound within a miscellaneous codex) 'near Brittany', but he also added in parentheses 'Île-de-France?', clearly pointing to a great uncertainty of attribution. A fresh and detailed palaeographical analysis might provide some new clues. 5025 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc68860g); Quadri 1992: xxxix. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/166 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/166 27 319 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 166 49 BnF Paris 9 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10551329x 167 MS NAL 662 Fols 4, 6-23 AD 1070-1125 1070 1125 - Redon - Collection of Jean Mabillon. Lacunose copy of the _Gesta sanctorum Rotonensium_ (4r-v, 6r-23v). 0 0 This is the earliest extant witness for the important _Gesta sanctorum Rotonensium_ (a text composed at Redon around AD 870). The Breton origin of these folios (which may have come from a hagiographical compilation, as suggested in Poulin 2009: 87) is not in doubt: indeed, in all likelihood they were written at Redon. For a detailed description of this MS, see Brett 1989: 20–7 (where NAL 662 carries the siglum _N_). In particular, Brett's palaeographical analysis of this MS highlights the similarity between its script and that of the Cartulary of Redon ([Rennes, Bibliothèque de l'Archévêché, MS _sine numero_](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/180)), as well as of manuscripts written at Mont-Saint-Michel in the late eleventh century (Brett 1989: 24–6). n/a [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc713716); Brett 1989: 20–7; _L&S_ §826; _PMSB_ 313 (§91); Poulin 2009: 87–8. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/167 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/167 11 320 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:03:04.000000Z 167 321 Redon Certainly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 320 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 167 49 BnF Paris 7 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10032299s 168 MS NAL 1587 Whole MS (109 fols) VIII ex. / IX in. 776 825 - Saint-Gatien of Tours - Stolen by Libri in 1842 - Acquired by the BnF in 1888. - Empty folio, only containing the signature _Uuarnerius_ written near the bottom (1r) - Carpet page, with _In nomine Dei summi amen_ in the upper margin (1v) - Gospel of Matthew (2r-32r) - Gospel of Mark, with explicit (and incipit of the next item): _Explicit euangelium cata Marcum. Item incipit euangelium cata Lucan_ (32v-52r) - Gospel of Luke, with explicit (and incipit of the next item): _Amen. Finitum euangelium cata Lucan. Item nunc orditur euangelium secundum Iohannem in Xpo Ihu_ (52v-85r) - Gospel of John (85v-109r) - Rubricated 'Hisperic' colophon by Holcundus: _Ego Holcundus mihi trinitas missereator . amen. Precor uos omnes Xpiani ut pro me commonem Deum diprecemini peccatore pium ut ne demergar in pyri flagae baratro sed fiam cum binis exercitibus in bapho ubi habitant thesaredes ter et octoades bis uates et eucusi thesera senes et XX ter et sex bini discipuli ut uobiscum omnium Xpm salvatorem exorent diem eglemon epacacon ecaton in hoc enim tota agiograpa pastricatur ·: emanuhel. :· amen amen_ (109r) - Entry _tinmocniam_, possibly a Brittonic word or name? (109r, lower margin) - Empty folio (109v). 0 1 This is the famous 'Gospel-book of Saint-Gatien' (a name due to its provenance from Saint-Gatien of Tours). If the Breton origin of this MS could be proven beyond reasonable doubt, NAL 1587 would then certainly be one of the earliest extant Breton manuscripts (or even _the_ earliest). The 'insular' character of this Gospel-book is strong, and it involves script, abbreviations, decoration, text, and even ruling and codicological structure (the codex is constituted by quinions). Indeed, for a long time this manuscript was believed to be Irish, until a more careful assessment of the script, as well as of the extraordinary colophon on fol. 109r and the explicit/incipit on fol. 85r, led scholars to reassign NAL 1587 to a continental scriptorium under heavy insular influence (for a brief but useful summary of scholarly views on this MS, see Simpson (McKee) 1999: 276–8). Overall, the following elements concur in pointing to Brittany as the most likely region where this MS was written probably shortly before or shortly after AD 800: 1. the use of a rare formula to introduce John's Gospel on fol. 85r (a formula also found in other Breton Gospel-books); 2. the presence of the non-Irish (Brittonic? Germanic?) name _Holcundus_ in the colophon on fol. 109r; 3. the strongly 'Hisperic' character of that same colophon; 4. the occurrence of the abbreviation _ɔc_ for _contra_ (a strong Breton diagnostic, cf. Lemoine 2008: 190–1); 5. the occurrence of the invocation _In nomine Dei summi_ in the superior margin of fol. 1v (cf. Lemoine 2008: 196); 6. the provenance from Saint-Gatien of Tours. For some scholarly views favouring, either tentatively or strongly, the attribution to Brittany, see e.g. Bischoff 1994: 30 and _Kat._ §5092; Lemoine 1995: 12–4; McGurk 1987: 176, 189; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 278). 5092 [_Bibale_](http://bibale.irht.cnrs.fr/46673); Bischoff 1990: 90; Bischoff 1994: 12, 30; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc34647j); _CLA_ V, §684 = [_ELMSS_](https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1073); Deuffic 2008: 122, 128; Dumville 1993: 1; Dumville 2005: 61; _ILLB_ In23; John 1995: 118; Lambert 2018: 14; _L&S_ §960; Lemoine 1988: 235 (n. 6); Lemoine 1995: 12–4; Lemoine 2001: 263, 268; Lemoine 2004: 156; Lemoine 2008: 187–8, 190, 194, 196; Lindsay 1915: 477; McKitterick 1989: 420 (n. 157); McGurk 1987: 176, 189; _OHLP_ 257; _PMSB_ 313 (§91bis); Rand 1929: 93–3; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 276–8, 285, 289–90; Smith 1992: 167 (n. 80); [_Wikipedia_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hiberno-Saxon_illuminated_manuscripts). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/168 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/168 1 16 322 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:18:44.000000Z 168 49 BnF Paris 1 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8423842n 169 MS NAL 1604 Whole MS (32 fols) X 901 1000 - Normandy? - Brittany? - Sens? - Fleury - Collection of Paul Petau (1568–1614). _Martyrologium Senonense_. 0 0 See the entry for [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.567](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/198) in the present Handlist for further details. Numerous computistical and annalistic annotations were added in the margins of this MS by a tenth-century hand, probably at Sens. No number; vol. III, p. 241 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc69928w); _LF_ BF1251 and BF1414; Vidier 1965: 58 (n. 202), 116–17. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/169 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/169 4 36 323 Central Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:04:04.000000Z 169 324 Sens Possibly 48°12'01.4"N 3°16'57.6"E coordinates for Sens 48.200389 3.282667 323 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 169 325 Loire Valley Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:04:04.000000Z 169 326 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 325 4 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 169 49 BnF Paris 26 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100372893 170 MS NAL 1616 Fragment (14 fols) IX ex. / X 1/2 (post AD 903?) 876 950 - Fleury - Orléans - Stolen by Libri - Bought in 1847 by Lord Ashburnham - Acquired by the BnF in 1888. - Table _Cursus lunae per XII signa_ (1r) - Computistical and astronomical diagrams (planetary orbits, _horologium_, etc.) (1v-2r) - Computistical argumenta, inc.: 1. _Statutum inuenimus in consilio Romanorum_ 2. _Unus uero punctus quarta pars hore est_ 3. _Quare fit bissextus et quomodo fit et quid esset si non fuisset_ 4. [added] _Si nosse feriam hoc est die septimane_ (2v) - _Quod datarum est hodie per dies anni_ (argumentum for finding computistical data of the _dies praesens_) (3r) - Computistical tables and diagrams (3v-5r) - Computistical excerpts about the seasons, ages of man and ages of the World, finger-reckoning (from Bede, _DTR_, I, 25–107, with Old Breton glosses), lunar age in relation to the solar calendar (5v-7r) - Brief dialogue, inc. _Dicito mihi unum diem qui habet XII incensiones lunae et quattuor tempora_ (7v) - Apuleian Sphere, inc. _Ratio spere Phtagor_ [sic] _philosophi quam Epulegus descripsit_ (7v) - Computistical tables (8r-9r) - Computistical poem, inc. _Prima dies Phoebi sacrato nomine fulget_ (9r) - Computistical poem, inc. _Nonae Apriles norunt quinos_ (9v) - _Hieronimus inuenit horologium_ (9v-10r) - _Sancta senodus ubi CCC et XVIII pontifices apud nicenam ciuitatem Bithiniae conuenerunt_ (10r) - _Communium et embolismorum ratio ista est_ (10r) - _Legimus in epistolis grecorum_ (10r) - Lunar prognostics (10v-12r) - Egyptian Days (12r) - Blood-letting tract, inc. _Tres dies maximi obseruandi sunt in anno_ (12r) - _De sugessione formationis hominis in utero_ [added] (12r) - Wind prognostic, inc. _Si iii nocte fuerit uentus_ (12v) - _Probationes pennae_ and Biblical lore, perhaps akin to the _ioca monachorum_ genre (12v) - Computistical argumenta (acephalous compilation) (13r-v) - Computistical table accompanied by Hebrew and Greek words associated with the names of God (_saddai, hel, eloim, eloe, sabaoth, elion, asiriee, adonaia, tetra gramaton_) (13v) - Prognostic text _De ragono subiecto_ (sic, for _De <tet>ragono subiecto_, a text also found in Laon, BM, MS 407 [Rheims, s. IX 3/4], fols 136v-137r) (14r) - Theological notes (added) (14v) - Computistical note (14v). 1 0 In _Kat._ §5103, Bischoff confidently attributed this MS to Brittany, presumably on the basis of its script and the six Old Breton glosses occurring therein (fols 6r, 6v, 7r and 12r, cf. _DGBV_ 5; Lambert 1984: 202–4). The question, however, is not so simple. While a Breton (or even Irish) origin was also proposed by Wickersheimer (1966: 140), on the other hand Carey (1923: 33, 112) included NAL 1616 in his list of Fleury MSS, on the basis of its certain _provenance_ from the library of Fleury (although notice also his description of it as a 'scripturae Hibernicae specimen' at p. 112!), and also because apparently these folios originally constituted pp. 1–28 of Orléans, Médiathèque, 18 (15), a MS usually ascribed to the scriptorium of Fleury and dated by Bischoff to the middle or the third quarter of the ninth century (cf. _Kat._ §3657; see also _LF_ BF415; Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 19, where Orléans 18 is dated to the first half of the ninth century; for the dating of NAL 1616, see below). Moreover, it is remarkable that all the Old Breton glosses of NAL 1616, except one, occur in the excerpt from the first chapter of Bede's _De temporum ratione_ at fols 6r–7r: this allows for the possibility that that particular section was copied from a Breton exemplar (perhaps by a Breton scribe working in the scriptorium of Fleury?)—a conclusion strengthened by the occurrence of some analogous contents (especially one identical gloss) in [Angers, BM, 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8), fols 7v–8r (cf. Lambert 1984: 203 and 205; the single gloss of NAL 1616 not occurring in the Bedan excerpt—_i lenguor_, glossing Lat. _in melanconia_—can be found at fol. 12r, in a passage added by a hand different from the main one). For these reasons, it seems somewhat more likely that this MS was copied at Fleury, possibly by a Breton scribe and/or from a Breton exemplar (cf. _LF_ BF1259 and BF1260, where Mostert divides the MS into two codicological units, fols 1–6 and 7–14; this division is somewhat puzzling, given that the Bedan excerpt occupies fols 6r–7r). Nonetheless, it should be stressed that this conclusion too remains to be fully demonstrated, and a Breton origin cannot be entirely ruled out (in particular, a careful study of the script of these folios is a desideratum). Quite apart from the issue of its origin, this MS presents many features of interest. First of all, at fol. 3r we can read a rare computistical _argumentum_ for calculating the lunar age and weekday for any given calendar day, using the 21st of December as an example (that day being the _dies praesens_ for the author of the short tract); according to Immo Warntjes (private correspondence), the data found in this text might point to AD 903 as the _annus praesens_; if proven, this could then be taken as a _terminus post quem_ for the writing of NAL 1616. Moreover, it is remarkable that a shorter but otherwise very similar _argumentum_ can be found in Metz, BM, MS 351 (from Metz, s. IX 3/3, although the contents in question are plainly a later addition), fol. 103r; [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), fol. 272v, and [Angers, BM, 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8), fol. 25v: in view of the strong Breton affiliations of both Lat. 6400B and Angers 476, it is certainly possible that, in addition to the above-mentioned Bedan excerpt, this _argumentum_ too was copied from a Breton exemplar. Another interesting—and puzzling—feature of NAL 1616 is the phrase _Teodorus ep(iscopu)s di(xi)t Si porci casu_, written on fol. 4r beneath a computistical table. The phrase _Si porci casu_ is plainly taken from the _Iudicia Theodori_, i.e. Theodore of Canterbury's penitential: for example, in the recension known as _Capitula Dacheriana_, D20a (ed. Elliot 2015), we find the phrase _Tamen si cassu porci commederint carnem morticinum_. Since Theodore's penitential tract circulated widely in Early Medieval Brittany (cf. [Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/151), containing the _Capitula Dacheriana_, as well as [Cambridge, Corpus Christi, MS 320](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/35); [London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho E.XIII](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/69); [Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 42](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/118); [Paris, BnF, Lat. 3182](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/134)), it is again eminently possible that this incomplete citation was copied, probably by mistake, from a Breton exemplar. Finally, we should mention David Juste's intriguing suggestion that NAL 1616 (or a copy of it) could be one of the computistical MSS brought to England by Abbo of Fleury, who may have used it as a source for the composition of some of his own computistical works (Juste 2004: 111–12). 5103 Bauer 2008: 130–2; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc13524w); Carey 1923: 33, 112; _DGVB_ 5; Juste 2004: 111–12; Lambert 1984: 202–4; Lambert 2018: 35; Lemoine 1985: 288; _LF_ BF1259 and BF1260; Obrist 2001: 17 (n. 33); Pellegrin and Bouhot 2010: 19–20; _PMSB_ 313 (§92); Riché 2004: 17, 21; Schrijver 2011: 9; Sigerist 1942: 293, 297; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 95 and 103); [_The Calendar and the Cloister_](https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/ms-17/apparatus.php?page=related_manuscripts); Wickersheimer 1914: 168–70, 172–3; Wickersheimer 1966: 140–2. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/170 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/170 6 18 5 20 327 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:05:26.000000Z 170 328 Loire Valley Probably 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:41:33.000000Z 170 329 Fleury Probably 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 328 3 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 170 49 BnF Paris 3 11 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100331398 171 MS NAL 1983 Whole MS (119 fols) X in. (c. AD 900?) 901 925 - Beauvais - Castle of Troussures. Amalarius of Metz, _Liber Officialis_ (_Retractatio prima_, lacunose). 1 0 This MS, which may date from c. AD 900 (cf. Dumville 1992: 136) is not the only surviving piece of evidence for the Breton interest in Amalarius's _Liber officialis_. A Breton tenth-century copy of the so-called _Retractatio prima_ of this text, likewise containing vernacular glosses and probably written at Landévennec, occurs also in [Cambridge, Corpus Christi, MS 192](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/32). On the other hand, the Old Breton glosses are here more numerous than in the Cambridge manuscript (29 glosses in NAL 1983 versus 6 in [CCC 192](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/32)); indeed, the linguistic significance of these glosses has been highlighted by Fleuriot (who published an edition and detailed analysis of them. cf. Fleuriot 1966) and, more recently, by Schumacher, in a study focussing on the preterital form _leit me_, 'I read' (gl. Lat. _legi_) occurring at fol. 82v (Schumacher 2018: 364–6). Although there does not seem to be here any single piece of evidence fully demonstrating that this MS was written in a Breton scriptorium, on the other hand (1) the fact that the _Retractatio prima_ of Amalarius's _Liber_ certainly circulated in Brittany (if that recension was not actually produced there, cf. Dumville 1994b: 212–13), and (2) the presence of a substantial number of accurate Old Breton glosses in NAL 1983, do point to a Breton origin as the most plausible solution. n/a [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc70277b); Deuffic 1985a: 272; Deuffic 2008: 112; Dumville 1992: 136, 138; Dumville 1994b: 209–10; Fleuriot 1966; Hanssens 1933: 246–8; Kerlouégan 1982b: 317; Lambert 2018: 39; Lemoine 1985: 289; _PMSB_ 314 (§93); Schumacher 2018: 364–6; Schrijver 2011: 9; Smith 1992: 169 (n. 89). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/171 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/171 4 330 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:19:04.000000Z 171 49 BnF Paris 1 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100347677 172 MS NAL 2633 Fragment (1 fol.) IX med. 825 875 Unknown Jerome's prefatory letter _Nouum opus_, addressed to Pope Damasus (fragment, fol. 17 only). 0 0 NAL 2633 is a miscellaneous codex in which numerous fragments from various manuscripts have been bound together. The fragment in question here is fol. 17, which contains a section of Jerome's letter to Pope Damasus (inc. _Nouum opus_). In all likelihood, this fragment came from what was originally a Gospel-book. According to Bischoff (_Kat._ §5156), this folio was written in a scriptorium influenced by the scribal practices of Tours—possibly a scriptorium in Brittany. 5156 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc70809d). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/172 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/172 1 17 331 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 172 49 BnF Paris 3 173 MS 17 1st C.U. (fols 1-143) IX 3/3 867 900 Nevers - Jerome, preface to the four Gospels (acephalous) (1r) - Eusebius, letter to Carpianus (1v-2r) - Jerome, letter to Pope Damasus (final words only), followed by the _argumentum_ to Matthew's Gospel (2v) - Eusebian canons (3r-v) - Gospel of Matthew (incomplete) (4r-55v) - Gospel of Mark (incomplete) (56r-63v?) - Portrait of Saint Mark (62v) - Gospel of Luke (acephalous) (64r-108v?) - Gospel of John (incomplete), preceded by preface (109r-143v). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §5162) confidently attributes this Gospel-book to Brittany, in agreement with Alexander (_EBGB_ 15, n. 6) and Deuffic (_PMSB_ 314–15; _ILLB_ In24). There is no doubt that the decoration (e.g. the large decorated initial _Li_ of Matthew's Gospel on fol. 4r, or the large decorated initial _I_ of Mark's Gospel on fol. 63r) depends largely on insular models, and some insular abbreviations do occur too (Lemoine 2008: 188). However, pending a detailed and up-to-date palaeographical, art-historic and textual analysis, a Breton origin of this MS cannot fully be confirmed at present (in particular, an origin in a Western Frankish scriptorium, perhaps close to Brittany, cannot be ruled out). The Nevers provenance, on the other hand, is confirmed by an entry on fol. 55v, mentioning Herueus, bishop of Nevers from 1099 to 1109. 5162 _EBGB_ 15 (n. 6); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In24; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3079/9908); Kohler 1893: I, 20; Lemoine 2005: 16; Lemoine 2008: 188, 193–4; _PMSB_ 314–15 (§96); Rankin 2018: 99, 101, 146, 148; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 283, 289–90. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/173 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/173 1 332 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 173 333 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 173 50 Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris 3 16 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=13140 A few folios can be seen at 174 MS 223 Fragment (4 fols) IX 3/4 851 875 Saint-Jean de Jard (diocesis of Meaux) Antiphonary (fragment). 0 0 These folios were used as flyleaves of a twelfth-century homiliary. Apart from containing 'Breton' neumes, this MS does not seem to present any further signs of a Breton origin, which therefore remains unconfirmed (indeed, Bischoff only indicated 'Frankreich' in _Kat._ §5166). While a tenth-century date is sometimes assigned to these folios (cf. e.g. Huglo 1963: 67; _ILLB_ In3), I have adopted Bischoff's ninth-century dating (_Kat._ §5166). 5166 Deuffic 2011: ; Huglo 1963: 67; _ILLB_ In3; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3178/10021); Kohler 1893: I, 132–5; _PMSB_ 315 (§97); Rankin 2018: 101, 152. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/174 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/174 4 334 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 174 335 (Western) Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 174 50 Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris 3 16 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=13239 A few folios can be seen at 175 MS 3340.1 Fragment (1 fol.) IX 2/3 834 866 Unknown - End of 4 Kings (1ra) - Jerome, preface to the Book of Isaiah (1rb-1va) - Book of Isaiah (from the beginning down to Isaiah 2:2) (1v). 0 0 According to Bischoff (_Kat._ §5172), this Biblical fragment might come from a Breton imitation of a Tours Bible. 5172 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/175 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/175 24 17 336 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:06:17.000000Z 175 337 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:06:17.000000Z 175 338 Area of Tours Possibly 338 3 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:42:48.000000Z 175 339 Tours Possibly 47°23'35.6"N 0°40'57.1"E coordinates for Tours 47.393222 0.682528 338 4 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 175 50 Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris 3 https://archive.org/details/MS3340_P1 176 MS 3340.23 Fragment (1 fol.) X 901 1000 Bourges Inventory of the library of the abbey of Saint-Sauveur and Saint-Gildas at Déols (near Châteauroux), divided in two sections, entitled respectively _Breuis de diuinis libris Sancti Saluatoris atque Sancti Gildasii_ and _Breuis de libris Sancti Gildasii de arte_ (recto only). 0 1 The commune of Déols, near Châteauroux, is the place where an abbey was founded, c. AD 920, by the Breton monks from Saint-Gildas of Rhuys (near Vannes) and Locminé (roughly 30 kilometres to the north of Vannes), who may have been fleeing the Viking raids that laid waste to Brittany at the beginning of the tenth century. The single folio in question here, which was retrieved from the binding of a sixteenth-century medical manuscript, contains a fascinating inventory of books belonging to the abbey of Saint-Sauveur and Saint-Gildas at Déols (for a detailed analysis of this fragment, cf. Valéry 2005). Since this document dates in all likelihood from the tenth century, it is probable that some or even most of the books listed in the inventory had been brought from Rhuys and Locminé by the monks who fled to Déols ('sans doute peu après 917', according to Deuffic 2008: 99). The most recent author named on the list is Remigius of Auxerre, who died in AD 908 (§112, _Glose Marciani magistri Remigii_, i.e. Remigius's commentary to Martianus Capella), and it is tempting to agree with Valéry (2005: 42) when he states that, with this inventory, 'on est en présence des fonds des abbayes de Rhuys et de Locminé à une date proche de la fuite des moines devant les Normands'; there is therefore no doubt that this document is an exceptional witness to the intellectual life of eastern Brittany towards the beginning of the tenth century. The inventory is divided into two sections, which may have been copied by the same hand at different times and from two distinct older inventories. Significantly, the former section—by far the longest—is a list of _diuini libri_, i.e. books for religious instruction, while the latter contains books _de arte_, i.e. useful for the teaching of the liberal arts. Some titles clearly harken back to the Breton origins of the community newly established at Déols: we find here a rather mysterious _textum sancti Gildasii_ (possibly a Gospel-book traditionally associated with Saint Gildas? Or a hagiographical text? Cf. Valéry 2005: 56–61, 75), as well as _duos antiphonarios bretonicos et unum nouum_ (§§46, 97-99 in Kohler's and Valéry's editions). But one is also struck by the presence of several works with insular connections: some _Gesta Anglorum_ (§22; probably a copy of Bede's _Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum_, or, less likely, Nennius's _Historia Brittonum_), a _Vita sancti Cugberti_ (§51; probably Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert), and even a _Vita sancti Patricii_ (§58). In this context, we should also mention the occurrence of two commentaries on the Book of Job (_Expositionem de Iob_, at §15 and §54): while one of the two is probably a copy of Gregory the Great's _Moralia in Iob_, the other might conceivably be the large commentary by Philippus Presbyter—a work which circulated widely in Ireland and Britain, but less so on the continent. We also find, as one expects, numerous biblical manuscripts as well as several works of biblical exegesis, canon law etc., but also Isidore (§19 _Isidorum magnum_, perhaps a complete copy of the _Etymologiae_), Julian of Toledo's _Prognosticon_ (§30, _Libro de futuro seculo_), glossaries and works on grammar, dialectic and rhetoric (§§8-9, 64, 83, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109), and even Classical texts (§10, _Gesta Iulii Caesaris_; §66, _Librum Terrenti comici_; §68 _Librum Tullii Cesaris_ [sic, for _Ciceronis_] _de oratore_; §79, _Librum in Bucolico_; §111, _Annei Luciani i_). The disciplines of the _quadrivium_ and natural philosophy are also well represented: we find no less than four _computi_ (§1-4, _iiii computos_), a _circulum zodiacum_ (§67), works on measures and weights (§§59, 72), Eriugena's _Periphyseon_ (§102, _Perifision duos_), Boethius's _De arithmetica_ (§105), as well as works on music and collections of liturgical chants (§§42, 73, 87-88, 101, 113). Finally, it is worth mentioning the intriguing entries _Librum de penis infernorum atque gaudium iustorum_ (§31) and _Librum sancti Michahelis_ (§48): the works behind these two titles remain unidentified. n/a Deuffic 2008: 99, 105, 112, 117, 119, 132 (n. 245); Gottlieb 1890: 144 (§398); Guillotel 1982: 287–8; Guillotel 1985: 24–5; _ILLB_ V214; Kohler 1886; Shimahara 2020: 145; Valéry 2005 (containing a facsimile of the inventory). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/176 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/176 41 340 Western Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:06:37.000000Z 176 341 Déols Certainly 46°49'31.5"N 1°42'04.3"E coordinates for the abbey of Déols, near Châteauroux 46.825417 1.701194 340 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 176 50 Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris 4 33 177 MS 16 Whole MS (164 fols) XI (c. AD 1047–1055) 1047 1055 Landévennec - Account of a miracle of Saint Winwaloe (added in the 12th century) (1v-2r) - Crucifixion scene (2v) - Gurdisten, _Vita longior sancti Winwaloei_ (3r-126v) - Hymns to Saint Winwaloe (126v-130r) - Homily on Saint Winwaloe (130r-135r) - Life of Saint Ethbin (135v-140r) - List of abbots of Landévennec (140v) - Landévennec charters (141r-164r) - List of counts of Cornouaille (164v). 1 0 This is the famous 'Cartulary of Landévennec.' It is impossible to do justice to the complexity of this important codex in these brief notes: a few indications will have to suffice (for in-depth analyses of many aspects of this MS, in addition to a complete facsimile, see the studies published in Lebecq 2015). In spite of its name, this MS is in fact more than a cartulary: indeed, the first 135 folios contain an extensive hagiographical 'dossier' on Saint Winwaloe. The cartulary proper only begins at fol. 140v with a list of the abbots of Landévennec, and ends at fol. 164v with a list of magnates of Cornouaille (fols 135v–140r are occupied by a Life of Saint Ethbin, also known as Idunet). The bulk of the MS was written by two scribes (hands A and B), in all likelihood during the abbacy of Elisuc, i.e. between 1047 and 1055 (for a slightly later dating, cf. Garault 2011: 38). As has been pointed out by Barret (in Lebecq 2015: 18), the writing of this MS—especially hand A—resembles the script used in the roughly contemporary Cartulary of Redon ([Rennes, Bibl. de l'Archevêché, MS _sine numero_](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/180)). Lemoine (2008: 197) has drawn attention to the occurrence of the 'insular' invocation _In nomine Dei summi_ in several charters (24, 40, 42, 43), which may have implications for the dating of these documents. n/a Bauer 2008: 133; Bradshaw 1889: 412, 474, 487; Brett 1985: 257, 265; Brett 2020; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D27020076); _CGM_ 22: 433; _CMD_ VII, 253; Davies 1985; Davies 2009 (esp. article III); de La Borderie 1888; Deuffic 1985a: 274–6; Deuffic 2008: 94; Garault 2011: _passim_ (esp. p. 38); Guillotel 1982: 284; _ILLB_ Q229 (n. 139); [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/13203/10785); _L&S_ §824, 827, 925, 999; Lebecq 2015 (with full facsimile); Lebecq 2015b: 159–61; Lebecq 2020: 87f.; Lemoine 2008: 197; _PMSB_ 315 (§98); Poulin 1996: 173, 177–8, 192; Poulin 2009: 388, 402, 407–9, 452–3; Schrijver 2011: 8; Simon 1985a: 25–7; Simon 1986: 127; Smith 1990: 321–2; Tanguy 1985. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 11-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/177 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/177 32 11 27 28 342 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:06:49.000000Z 177 343 Landévennec Certainly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 342 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 177 51 BM Quimper 7 178 MS 16 bis Fragment (1 fol.) XI ex. 1076 1100 Landévennec Gospel-book (fragment, 1 folio only). 0 0 This fragment from an eleventh-century Breton Gospel-book written in two columns was used as flyleaf of the Cartulary of Landévennec ([Quimper, BM, MS 16](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/177)). n/a [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D27020076); _ILLB_ Q229 (pp. 221–2); _PMSB_ 316 (§99). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/178 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/178 1 344 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:06:58.000000Z 178 345 Landévennec Certainly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 344 2 2021-05-07T14:22:00.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 178 51 BM Quimper 7 179 MS 1J 346 (4J 96) Whole MS (47 fols) XI ex. / XII in. 1076 1125 Saint-Vougay Missal (incomplete) (for a detailed list of this manuscript's contents, see _ILLB_ L4, pp. 14–21). 0 0 This MS is also known as 'Missal of Saint-Vougay', as it came to the Departmental Archives of Quimper from the parish church of Saint-Vougay (Finistère), where it was kept as a holy relic. The Breton origin of this late eleventh-century liturgical codex (whose surviving folios have been much damaged by dampness) is not in doubt, and Deuffic, who has studied it in detail, has argued (mostly on the basis of the distribution of saints' names in the litanies) that it was written at Landévennec; it is therefore useful to cite his conclusions at length here: 'La composition du sanctoral et des litanies indiquent le scriptorium de Landévennec: la place de saint Corentin par rapport à saint Pol et celle de Guénolé en tête des non pontifes militent pour cette hypothèse. Le manuscrit a dû être composé pour une église du Léon, sans doute l'ancien prieuré de Locquénolé (arrondissement de Morlaix, canton de Taulé), le _Lancolvett_ du Cartulaire de Landévennec, qui plus tard devint une enclave de Dol en pays de Léon' (Deuffic 1985a: 277; cf. also _ILLB_ L4, p. 14, with detailed bibliography at p. 21). n/a Deuffic 1982; Deuffic 1985a: 277; Deuffic 2008: 93; Deuffic 2011: 66; Duine 1906: 157–9 (§61); Duine 1922: 57–9 (§33); Huglo 1963: 58–9; _ILLB_ L4; _L&S_ §970; _PMSB_ 316 (§100). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/179 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/179 4 346 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:07:11.000000Z 179 347 Landévennec Possibly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 346 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 179 52 Archives Départementales du Finistère Quimper 7 16 34 https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md77sn00dn83 180 MS s.n. Whole MS (147 fols) XI (AD 1062–1084) 1062 1084 - Abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon - Rennes. Usually known as the 'Cartulary of Redon', this is a large collection of charters pertaining to the abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Redon, with several _lacunae_ (the largest one, posterior to the foliation in Arabic numerals, is between fols 8 and 51). 1 0 This is the famous 'Cartulary of Redon.' It is obviously impossible to do justice to the complexity of this important codex in the limited space of these brief notes: for in-depth analyses of many aspects of this MS and its contents (in addition to a complete facsimile), see Guillotel, Chédeville, Tanguy and Brunterc'h 1998–2004, as well as the numerous studies by Davies focussing on the Cartulary (collected in Davies 2009). The bulk of this MS was written by two main scribes (Judicalis and Guegonus) during the abbacy of Aumod (AD 1062–1084), and the script exhibits a strong influence from the scribal practices of eleventh-century Mont-Saint-Michel (cf. ibid., vol. I, p. 14–16; Tonnerre 1985: 115–16; Guillotel 1986: 33–5). The contents of the charters provide an immense and invaluable wealth of information on Early Medieval Breton history, society and economy; moreover, they provide us with a significant number of personal names, place-names and nouns in Old Breton, all of great value for the study of that language. On the other hand, the importance of these documents for the study of Breton Latinity has not often been pointed out (with the notable exception of Tonnerre 1985: 118). n/a Bradshaw 1889: 412, 473, 474–5, 488; Davies 1988 (_passim_); Davies 2009 (esp. articles I, II, VIII, IX); Deuffic 2008: 95; de Courson 1863; Guillotel 1986: 28–36; Guillotel, Chédeville, Tanguy and Brunterc'h 1998–2004 (with full facsimile); [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/13414/10966); _L&S_ §998; Smith 1985; Smith 1992: 23–32; Tonnerre 1985. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/180 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/180 32 348 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:07:36.000000Z 180 349 Redon Certainly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 348 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 180 53 Bibliothèque de l'Archevêché Rennes 7 181 MS 14 (6) Whole MS (61 fols) XI ex. 1076 1100 Saint-François of Rennes - Bede, _In Proverbia Salomonis_, inc. _Parabole Salomonis filii Dauid regis Israhel_ (1r-55r) - Bede, _Expositio allegorica in librum beati patris Tobiae_ (commentary on Tobit), inc. _<L>iber sancti patris nostri Tobię et in superficię littere salubris patet legentibus_ (55r-61v). 0 0 In his _PMSB_ (§103), Deuffic listed this MS as the possible product of a Breton scriptorium, but unfortunately he did not explain why. Apart from the Rennes provenance, I am not aware of any clear proof of a Breton origin, which therefore remains unconfirmed. n/a [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D29010136); _CGM_ 24: 9; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/13433/10972); _PMSB_ 316 (§103). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/181 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/181 2 350 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 181 351 Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 181 54 BM Rennes 3 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fbvmm.irht.cnrs.fr%2Fiiif%2F5186%2Fmanifest 182 MS 8 (C. 142) 2nd C.U. (fols 3-102) IX ex. 876 900 Saint-Thierry of Rheims - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (3r-4r) - Instructions for the use of the Eusebian canons, inc. _In canone primo concordant quattuor_ and _Sciendum etiam ne quem ignarum_ (4v-5v) - Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus (5v-6v) - Preface to Matthew's Gospel (6v-7v) - Added text concerning the main Biblical events that happened on 25 March (the old 'Roman' date of the vernal equinox), followed by an annalistic note about the battle of Soissons of AD 923 (7v) - Eusebian canons (8r-11r) - Erased text with neumes (11v) - Gospel of Matthew (12r-44v) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface (45r-67v) - Added text concerning the location of Adam's burial and the Calvary (45v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and depiction of the symbols of the four Evangelists (67v-102v). 0 0 Bischoff's geographical ascription of this MS is a laconic 'etwa Bretagne' (_Kat._ §5248). In _PMSB_ §101, Deuffic stated confidently 'origine bretonne probable', but his position appears to have become more nuanced in his recent _ILLB_, In25 (p. 70): 'la seconde partie [i.e., fols 3–102] serait peut-être d'origine bretonne.' As a consequence, a Breton origin is possible but remains to be confirmed. Regardless of this issue, this MS contains some interesting additions (ed. _ILLB_, In25), which may be only slightly later than the writing of the main text. At fol. 7v, just before the Eusebian canon tables, we can read a fascinating account of the main Biblical events that took place on the eighth calends of April (= 25 March, the old 'Roman' spring equinox), namely: God's creation of light, the Annunciation, the Passion, the sacrifice of Isaac, Jacob's ladder, Jacob's blessing of his sons, the apparition of God's angel in Egypt, God's bestowal of the manna to the Israelites, the Israelites' flight from Egypt and their crossing of the Red Sea, the division of human languages, and the death of James the Apostle 'the Lord's brother' (_passus est sanctus Iacobus frater Domini_). This curious passage is followed by an annalistic note concerning the battle of Soissons, fought in AD 923 between King Charles III and a rebel coalition led by Robert I. The second addition, which occurs on fol. 45v, concerns the location of Adam's burial and the Calvary, which, 'according to some', might be one and the same place (_sunt quidam qui uoluerunt contendere ideo ibi Dominum crucifixum ut sanguis illius super Adam tumulum distillaret_)—a rather widespread apocryphal tradition, which, however, is explicitly rejected by the anonymous author of this passage. 5248 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D38A10070); _CGM_ 38: 9–14; _CMD_ V, 652; _EBGB_ 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In25; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/3664/10796); Lemoine 2008: 192–3; _PMSB_ 316 (§101). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/182 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/182 1 2 7 352 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 182 353 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 182 55 BM Rheims 3 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=1630 183 MS 395 (E. 278) 7th C.U. (fols 114-156) XII 1101 1200 Saint-Thierry of Rheims - _Glossae in Bibliae praefationes Hieronymi_ (114r-116v) - _Glossae in Vetus et Nouum Testamentum_ (116v-123r, 128v-152v, 155r-155v) - Adrevald of Fleury, _De benedictionibus patriarcharum_ (123r-128v) - Bede, _Nomina regionum atque locorum de Actibus apostolorum_ (152v-155r) - Jerome, _Liber quaestionum hebraicarum in Genesim_ (incomplete) (156r-v). 1 1 This twelfth-century manuscript is the seventh codicological unit in a Rheims miscellaneous codex containing manuscripts dating from the tenth to the twelfth centuries (_CGM_ 38: 529–34). Saint-Thierry ex-libris marks from the twelfth and seventeenth centuries are present in the codex. The manuscript contains the second known copy of the compilation of exegetical materials appearing in [Orléans, Médiathèque, 182](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/97) (Pellegrin _et al._ 2010: 218). It preserves three of the six Old Breton glosses found in Orléans 182, notably those appearing in the main text. The marginal entries found in Orléans 182 are absent, along with the two attached Old Breton glosses found there, as is the single interlinear gloss. Allowing for substantial reordering of the material and textual variants, the compilation in this manuscript for the most part corresponds to that in Orléans 182, with a few notable exceptions. First, Rheims 395 preserves in full the independent works incorporated into the compilation: Bede’s _Nomina regionum atque locorum de Actibus apostolorum_ (Laistner and Hurst 1983: 165–78) and Adrevald of Fleury’s _De benedictionibus patriarcharum_ (_PL_ 20.715–32)—the latter is of some significance as few early manuscripts of _De benedictionibus_ survive (cf. Jullien _et al._ 1994–2015, vol. 1, pp. 37–8). The second exception is that the fragment of Jerome’s _Epistola ad Marcellam_ and the glosses on his _Epistola ad Paulinum_ are both lacking. n/a [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D38B10065 ); _CGM_ 38: 529–34; Corrigan 2022; Jullien _et al._ 1994–2015, vol. 1, pp. 37–8; Pellegrin _et al._ 2010: 218 1 Sarah Corrigan 23-01-2023 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/183 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/183 2 17 354 Unknown Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 183 55 BM Rheims 2 11 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=2437 184 MS 414 (E. 294) 2nd C.U. (fols 49-79) IX 3/4 851 875 Saint-Thierry of Rheims? - Julian of Toledo, _Prognosticon futuri saeculi_ (acephalous) (49r-78r) - Excerpts from Gildas, _De excidio Britanniae_, inc. _Gildasius arguens principes ait_ (78r-79v). 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §5291) had no hesitations in ascribing this codicological unit to Brittany (indeed, note the occasional use of some insular abbreviations, e.g. _enim_ at fol. 53r, second and bottom line; Tironian _et_ at fol. 59r, third line from the bottom, etc.). In view of the popularity of both Julian of Toledo's _Prognosticon_ and Gildas in Early Medieval Brittany, this localisation seems highly plausible. It is worth noting that the interesting assemblage of excerpts from Gildas's _De excidio Britanniae_ occurring at fols 78r-79v constitutes a sort of brief _speculum principum_, especially concerned with bad kings—an assessment supported by the incipit of this compilation: _Gildasius arguens principes ait_. The script on fol. 79v is somewhat effaced, suggesting that this MS was loosely bound _in quaternionibus_ for a long period of time. 5291 [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D38B10278); Davies 1968: 147 (n. 73); Larpi 2011; _PMSB_ 316 (§102; the shelfmark is here wrongly indicated as '144'); Smith 1992: 167 (n. 82). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/184 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/184 19 34 355 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-19T09:20:27.000000Z 184 55 BM Rheims 1 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=1500 185 MS Arch.Cap.S.Pietro D. 154 Whole MS (137 fols) IX ex. or X 1/2 876 950 Perugia? - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (with large decorated initial _B_)(2r-3v) - Preface to the four Gospels(3v-5r) - Preface to Matthew's Gospel (5v) - Eusebian canon tables (6r-8v) - Gospel of Matthew (acephalous) (9r-42r) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (42r-64v) - Portrait of Saint Mark (43v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and capitula (64v-105r) - Portrait of Saint Luke (67r) - Empty folio (105v) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (106r-136r) - Portrait of Saint John (107v) - Empty folio (136v) - _Capitulare lectionum euangeliorum de circulo anni_ (incomplete) (137r-v). 0 0 Fischer (1988–91) assigned this MS to his group of Breton Gospel-books (with the siglum Bv), and an ascription to Brittany was also proposed by Bischoff in _Kat._ §6411, with a suggested dating to '(IX./X. Jh. oder) X. Jh., 1. Hälfte.' The study of the evangelists' portraits in this MS is inconclusive in relation to the issue of origin (_EBGB_ 15–23), as it can show at best the close dependency on iconographical models from Tours. Overall, a Breton origin seems possible, but remains to be confirmed. That the MS was brought to Italy (possibly to Perugia) at a relatively early stage is shown by the (fourteenth-century?) ex-libris on fol. 1r: _Iste liber est Perusini de Guidalottis de Perusio_. 6411 _EBGB_ 15 (n. 5), 16–23; Fleuriot 1983: 104; _ILLB_ In28; _PMSB_ 316 (§104); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 285, 289–90. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/185 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/185 1 356 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 185 357 (Western) Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 185 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.D.154 186 MS Barb.lat.477 2nd C.U. (fols 4-123) XI in. 1001 1025 Avignon In addition to containing a variety of texts on grammar, computus and cosmology, as well as glossaries, Biblical glosses, canon law, one penitential tract (Pseudo-Bede-Egbert, _De remediis peccatorum_, 60r-72v), and monastic _consuetudines_ from Cluny (110v-123v), this codex is the sole witness for recension E of the _Hisperica Famina_ (59v). 0 1 Bischoff discovered in this manuscript the only extant witness for 'recension E' of the _Hisperica Famina_ (cf. Hallinger 1974). Bischoff believed that this copy of recension E dependend on a Breton model (cf. Hallinger 1974: 49). In view of the well documented Breton interest in the _Hisperica Famina_, this is certainly plausible: the contents of Barb.lat.477 (or some of its contents, or only the _Hisperica Famina_) may have been copied in southern France—possibly Avignon—from a Breton exemplar, or they may ultimately derive from a Breton archetype (the southern French origin of this MS is widely accepted, cf. e.g. Frantzen 1983: 579; Meens 2014: 233). In this context, it is certainly worth noting that a passage on the various by-forms of the name _Uesper_, deriving from the writings of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus and excerpted in several Irish and Breton computistical texts (cf. Bisagni 2019: 43–4), occurs at fol. 23r amidst Biblical glosses. Interestingly, such a chain of textual tranmission, from Brittany to Provence, finds an interesting parallel in [Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 9605](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/84), a computistical MS written at or near Avignon in AD 1026 but presenting strong Breton affiliations (including one Old Breton gloss, for which see Bisagni 2020b). n/a _CLH_ §570; Frantzen 1983: 579; Hallinger 1974; Lemoine 2010: 219 (n. 18); _L&S_ §329; Meens 2014: 233. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/186 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/186 25 6 8 2 13 16 9 10 35 358 Provence Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 186 359 Avignon Possibly Coordinates for Avignon 43.949249 4.805901 358 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-06-07T10:55:14.000000Z 186 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 2 11 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.477 187 MS Pal.lat.213 2nd C.U. (fols 22-54) X 901 1000 Lorsch? - _In nomine Dei sumi amen. Incipit de aetatibus animantium Hesiodon_ (a discussion of the term _natura_) (22r) - Accessus to Aristotle (22r) - Marginal notes and diagrams dealing mostly with concepts such as _ousia_, _genus_, _species_, _dialectica_, etc. (22r) - Glosses and notes on a wide variety of words and concepts (e.g. _dialectica_, _uersus_, the name of the Franks, etc.), serving as an _accessus_ to the next item (22v) - _Versus Alcuini diaconi ad Carolum regem Francorum_, inc. _Continet iste decem naturae uerba libellus_ (Alcuin's _carmen_ 73), with abundant scholia (22v) - Pseudo-Augustine, _Categoriae decem_ (here titled _Categoriae Aristotelis ab Augustino translatae ad filium sum Adeodatum_), with abundant scholia (23r-50r) - Pseudo-Augustine, _<De> Decem preceptis et decem plagis_, inc. _Diligenter considerandum est cur numerus preceptorum legis Dei cum numero plagarum Aegypti qui sibi aduersantur coaequari uideatur_ (52v-53v) - Empty folios (except for two glosses on fol. 54v) (50v-52r, 54r-v). 0 0 Bischoff (1989: 120) tentatively proposed a Breton origin for this codicological unit, presumably on the basis of its script. However, I am not aware of any other reason to ascribe this MS to Brittany; thus, Bischoff's suggestion remains to be tested. A further copy of the anonymous tract _De decem preceptis et decem plagis_, occurring at fols 52v–53v, can be found at fols 85v–86v of Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.338, a MS whose origin is unclear (possibly Northern France or Germany), although we do know that it had reached England by the early eleventh century. n/a Bischoff 1989: 120. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 14-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/187 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/187 23 15 21 22 2 360 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 187 361 Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 187 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/bav_pal_lat_213 188 MS Pal.lat.825 Whole MS (28 fols) X 901 1000 - Lorsch? - Collection of Ulrich Fugger (1526–1584). Sulpicius Severus, _Chronica_ (here titled _Incipit prologus Sulpicii Seueri in chronica quae ipse fecit ab exordio mundi usque ad tempus suum_). 0 0 According to Deuffic (_PMSB_ §105), Fleuriot included this MS in his unpublished list of Breton manuscripts. A Breton origin was also proposed by Bischoff (1976: 159, n. 131: 'The only known MS. of the work [i.e. Sulpicius Severus's _Chronica_], Vat. Pal. Lat. 825, is Bretonic, saec. X'; cf. also Bischoff 1989: 126). In addition to highlighting the existence of other fragments of the otherwise extremly rare _Chronica_ of Sulpicius Severus in the Staatsarchiv of Lucerne (possibly originating from ninth-century Corbie), Hoffmann only reports Bischoff's ascription of Pal.lat.825, without discussing it any further (Hoffmann 2003: 447–8). A Breton origin, although possible, remains unconfirmed. n/a Bischoff 1976: 159 (n. 131); Bischoff 1989: 126; Hoffmann 2003: 447–8; _PMSB_ 317 (§105). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/188 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/188 19 362 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 188 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/bav_pal_lat_825 189 MS Reg.lat.49 Whole MS (53 fols) IX ex. / X 876 1000 Fleury? This MS contains the compilation of homilies and exegetical materials collectively known as _Catechesis Celtica_. Note that fols are numbered 1 to 54, but fols 5 and 6 are the top and bottom half of a single folio. The folios are bound in the incorrect order: the correct sequence is fols 1–2, 4, 3, 7, 6, 8–23, 32–47, 24–31, 48–54 (Wilmart 1933a: 112). 1 1 This MS presents a unique compilation of homiletic and exegetical material collectively referred to as the _Catechesis Celtica_ following Wilmart’s (1933a) description of it as 'Cathéchèses celtiques'. The MS has attracted much attention over the course of the last century due to its striking combination of insular, including specifically Irish, and continental features, both palaeographical and textual, as well as its vernacular glosses (see bibliographies in Rittmueller 2003: 68–9, and _CLH_ §192). The script shows a clear mix of Caroline minuscule and insular features (including striking instances of insular _r_ being retained, e.g. at fol. 6r). The MS also contains a strong combination of both conventionally insular and continental abbreviations, including the insular abbreviations for _autem_, _enim_, _eius_, and _con_ (Rittmueller 1992–3: 299–302; 2003: 72–6). The name of the scribe is supplied as _Guilhelm_ in a colophon (fol. 53r). The MS contains three glosses initially identified as Brittonic, though the precise nature and meaning of these remains open to debate. The first of these, _guorcher_ (fol. 21r), glosses Lat. _summitas_. This was first identified by Linsday, who thought it to be Breton, but Loth (1915–16), who reported Lindsay’s finding, concluded that the gloss was likely Cornish. Fleuriot later claimed the gloss as Breton (_DGVB_ 198; Bauer 2008: 183). The second gloss, _tra pen_ (fol. 39v), glosses the Latin phrase _pro capite_ and was also identified as Breton by Fleuriot (_DGVB_ 318; Bauer 2008: 183; cf. Loth 1933). The final gloss reads _hebē_ (fol. 50r) and was interpreted alternatively as _heber_, _hebere_ and _heben_ (Loth 1933; Wilmart 1933a: 108, n. 1; Grosjean 1936: 116; _DGVB_ 207–8; Bauer 2008: 183); however, most recently Ó Laoghaire (1987: 162) has argued on the basis of a parallel reading in the _Collectio Canonum Hibernensis_ that this gloss is in fact an abbreviation for the Latin _hebraice_. The MS contains a number of additional Latin glosses, and Wilmart (1933a: 31) hypothesised that the exemplar contained numerous vernacular glosses which were not copied because they were either not understood or not deemed useful by the copying scribe (who, we should not forget, had a non-Breton name). Discussion of origin and dating of this MS best begins with Wilmart (1933a), who edited 14 of what he delimited as 46 items comprising the collection (the division and numbering of the items vary: '55 or so' according to McNamara 1999: 181; 57 according to McNally’s as yet unpublished edition, as cited in McNamara 1990b: 292; 54 according to Rittmueller 1992–3: 263–96; further editions of individual items appear in Andrieu 1931–61: vol. 3, 39–41; McNally 1971: 185–6; McNamara 2000a; a translation and study of a further item is presented by Carella 2013). The MS has been dated to varying phases of the second half of the ninth and the entirety of the tenth centuries (s. IX ex. or X, Wilmart 1933a: 29; s. X, Wilmart 1937–45: vol. 1, 112; s. IX 2/2 or X 1/2, _PMSB_ 109; s. X, McNamara 1994: 197–8; s. IX or X, _Kat._ §6608). In light of the vernacular glosses and the interaction of insular and continental features, Wilmart (1933a: 31) stated a preference for a Breton origin for the MS, though he also proposed Fleury as a possibility, noting the similarities between this MS and [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg. lat. 81](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/190)—both Wilmart (1937–45: vol. 1, 117) and McNamara (1999: 198–9) concurred that the MS was likely in Fleury in the sixteenth century. Another potential location for the production of the MS would be a continental centre with an Irish presence; however, in addition to discussing connections to Hiberno-Latin and Irish vernacular sources (McNamara 1990a; 1990b; 1994; 1999; see also Grosjean 1936), McNamara (1990b: 302–3; 2000a) has also presented a number of links with texts in Breton MSS. Furthermore, Lemoine (2001: 264–7) discovered what appears to be a uniquely Breton reading of _mittis_ for _mitis_ in Matthew 11:29, for which an etymological explanation is given in this MS (fol. 12r; Lemoine cites the more modern numbering in the lower right of the folio: 14r), further cementing the evidence for Brittany as the most plausible place of origin for the MS and perhaps the compilation itself. 6608 Bauer 2008: 183; _CLH_ 112 (§69), 226–7 (§192); Deuffic 2008: 113; _DGVB_ 6, 198, 207–8, 318; Dumville 1994: 88; Grosjean 1956: 38; _L&S_ §905, 974; Le Duc 1995: 176; Lemoine 1985: 290; Lemoine 2001; Lemoine 2008: 188–91; Loth 1915–16; Loth 1933; McNamara 1990a; McNamara 1990b; McNamara 1994; McNamara 1999; McNamara 2000a; _PMSB_ 317 (§109); Riché 2004: 20; Rittmueller 1992–3; Rittmueller 2003: 67–79; Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 170 (n. 94); Wilmart 1933a; Wilmart 1933b; Wilmart 1937–45: vol. 1, 112–17. 1 Sarah Corrigan 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/189 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/189 2 4 27 363 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:45:07.000000Z 189 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 1 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.49 190 MS Reg.lat.81 Fols 1-12 IX ex. / X 876 1000 Fleury? _Hisperica Famina_, recension A. 0 1 This is the only extant copy of recension A of the _Hisperica Famina_; as a consequence, this MS was used as the basis for Herren's 1974 edition of that text (Herren 1974a). The title _Hisperica Famina_ occurs in the explicit at fol. 12v: _HISPERICA FINIUNT FAMINA AƆ-CHN_. The place of origin of this MS is uncertain, although both Brittany and Fleury are possible (_pace_ Deuffic, _PMSB_ 317, where a Breton origin is indicated as 'probable'). In particular, Grosjean (1956: 39–40) suggested that Reg.lat.81 may have been written by the Breton scribe-scholar Liosmonocus or Lios Monocus (about whom see also the entry for [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192) in the present Handlist), active during the ninth century possibly in Brittany and then in the scriptorium of Fleury. The same scribe may also be responsible for a part of the copy of Aethicus Ister's _Cosmographia_ contained in one of the codicological units of [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.1260](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/201), namely fols 125r–136v (down to line 4 of that folio). Moreover, this same Liosmonocus may be the author of the _Libellulus sacerdotalis_ (about Liosmonocus, see Deuffic 2008: 125; about the _Libellulus_, see the entry for [Paris, BnF, Lat. 13386](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/158) in the present Handlist). It has also been suggested that whoever wrote Reg.lat.81 may have been copying from an insular, and quite possibly Irish, exemplar—a hypothesis based on the occurrence of a rare abbreviation for _nam_ (_N_ with a strikethrough) and other palaeographical features (cf. e.g. Jenkinson 1980: xxiv–xxx; Grosjean 1956: 39; Herren 1974a: 10–11; Lemoine 2008: 189). No number; vol. III, p. 422 Bradshaw 1889: 463–4, 488; _CLH_ §570; Deuffic 2008: 125; Dumville 2005: 59; Gougaud 1923: 14–15; Grosjean 1956: 37–40; Herren 1974a: 7–11; Jenkinson 1908: xxiv–xxx; Lapidge 1975: 71, n. 7; Lemoine 2008: 189; _LF_ BF1345; _PMSB_ 317 (§108); Smith 1992: 171 (n. 98); Vidier 1965: 67 (n. 281.2); Wilmart 1933a: 31 (n. 2); Wilmart 1937–45: I, 179–81. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/190 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/190 16 364 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:10:08.000000Z 190 365 Loire Valley Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:10:08.000000Z 190 366 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 365 3 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 190 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 19 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.81 191 MS Reg.lat.191 Fragment (flyleaves: fols II-V, 104-105) IX ex. / X in. 876 925 Cornwall? - Pseudo-Seneca, _De moribus_ (acephalous) (Vv-r, IIIv-r, 104r-v, 105r-v, IVv-r, IIv-r) - Jerome, _De viris illustribus_, chapter on Seneca only (IIv) - List of Brittonic (especially Cornish) saints, added probably in the 10th century (IIv-r). 1 0 This fragment contains Pseudo-Seneca's _De moribus_ and Jerome's chapter from _De viris illustribus_ concerning Seneca. Bischoff (_Kat._ §6631) had no hesitation in ascribing it to Brittany, and this attribution seems plausible, not only in view of the fragment's script (a recognisably Breton Caroline minuscule), but also due to the fact that it contains a list of forty-eight Brittonic and especially Cornish saints, added in insular minuscule at fols IIv-r. The existence of close contacts between Brittany and Cornwall in the Early Middle Ages is well known: thus, as has been proposed by Olson and Padel (1986: 37), the list of saints, which was penned shortly after the writing of the main text, may have been written in Brittany 'by an émigré Cornish, English, or Welsh scribe'. Alternatively, if this MS reached Cornwall from Brittany, the list may have been added in Cornwall (it is also noteworthy that the scribe who wrote the list may have also made a small correction to the text of Pseudo-Seneca's _De moribus_ on fol. 105r (seventh line from the bottom; cf. Olson 1996). The list, whose contents reflects the incipient development of a parochial system in Cornwall (cf. Olson and Padel 1986: 63–9), includes the names of several 'pan-Brittonic' saints, as well as of saints more specifically associated with Cornwall; moreover, a few names are not known from any other source. It is unclear how these folios subsequently reached Rheims, where they were used as flyleaves of Reg.lat.191. 6631 _DGBV_ 7; Godu and Le Roux 1938; Olson 1996; Olson and Padel 1986; Pellegrin 1988: 465; Schrijver 2011: 8; Vendryes 1938. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/191 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/191 42 23 43 367 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:45:36.000000Z 191 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 1 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.191 192 MS Reg.lat.296 Whole MS (108 fols) IX 2/2 851 900 - Fleury (s. XI)? - Saint-Denis - Collection of Paul Petau (1568-1614). Orosius, _Historiae adversus paganos_. 1 1 The scribe of this MS (or of its exemplar?) was Liosmonocus (about whom see the entry for [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, MS Reg.lat.81](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/190) in the present Handlist), as revealed by the colophon at fols 107vb–108ra. Note that the same colophon was copied in the later MSS [Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Voss. Lat. F. 13](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/61), and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 4877](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/136) (cf. Lambert 1988: 215–16; Lemoine 1988): _Expliciunt septeni libri sancti Orosii, quos Liosmonocus iussit pingi diaconus. Idcirco, fratres karissimi, qui istos scrutemini, orate, rogo, pro illo, ut deus ei longaeuam felicemque tribuat uitam et post in die ultimo eius animae in caelo requiem concedat cum sanctis et sedem regni perennis. Amen_. In all likelihood, this MS was written in a Breton scriptorium, although it may have reached the library of Fleury at an early stage, perhaps already in the eleventh century (_LF_ BF1373; Arnaud-Lindet 1990: lxxiv). The vernacular and Latin glosses on Orosius's _Historiae_ occurring in this MS are related to the other Breton codices containing glosses on the same text: in particular, Reg.lat.296 is closely related to [Paris, BnF, Lat. 4877](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/136) and [Venice, Bibl. Marciana, MS Zanetti Lat. 349](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/222) (cf. Lambert 1988: 220; Bauer 2019). It is also important to highlight the presence of a possible corrupt Old Irish gloss (_sainis_, probably for Old Irish _sanas_, 'secret information'), as well as a gloss (shared with [Lat. 4877](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/136)) of obvious Anglo-Saxon character (_buric_ and _burg_ as translations of Lat. _oppidum_; note also the collocation _pane principis_, a calque on Old English _hlāfweard_, 'lord'; cf. Lambert 1988: 216; Lambert 2018: 27). Moreover, there are links between the whole tradition of Breton glossing on Orosius's _Historiae_ and the Anglo-Saxon 'Corpus Glossary' (cf. Lambert 1988: 214–15). Finally, Szerwiniack (1992–3: 20–22; 2007: 171–2) has identified a number of glosses shared by Reg.lat.296 and the Orosian _glossae collectae_ in Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.1650 (s. IX 2/2, from the area of Soissons): these parallel glosses may derive from an Irish model. Complex phenomena of linguistic interaction characterise the Breton manuscript transmission of Orosius's _Historiae_ (known in Brittany mostly under the Celtic-Latin title _De Ormesta Mundi_, about which see Arnaud-Lindet 1990: xiii–xiv, Lambert 2018: 26, and the entry for [Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 160](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/19) in the present Handlist; this title occurs also in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS D 23 sup., written at Bobbio in the second half of the seventh century, and in Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Pal.lat.829, written at Lorsch in Anglo-Saxon minuscule). These phenomena speak of a wide circulation and shared glossing practices throughout the insular world—a world which included Brittany (in relation to this aspect, see the concluding remarks in Lambert 1988: 220, and Coz 2007: 299). 6652 Arnaud-Lindet 1990: xiii–xiv, lxix, lxxiv, lxxxi–lxxxii; Bauer 2008: 183–6; Bauer 2019 (_passim_, siglum Q); Coz 2007: 289, 299; Deuffic 2008: 125; _DGVB_ 6; Grosjean 1956: 39–40; Guillotel 1985: 26; Lambert 1988: 213 (and _passim_); Lambert 1989: 81; Lambert 1994: 103; Lambert 2018: 26–7; Lemoine 1985: 33–7, 288; Lemoine 1988; Lemoine 1994a: 82–3, 108; Lemoine 2001: 263–4; Lemoine 2008: 139 (n. 12); Lemoine 2010: 219; _LF_ BF1373; _PMSB_ 318 (§110); Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 100); Szerwiniack 1992–3: 20–22; Szerwiniack 2007: 171–2, 196; Vidier 1965: 67 (n. 281.8); Wilmart 1937–45: II, 130–2. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/192 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192 19 17 368 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:45:47.000000Z 192 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 1 11 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.296 193 MS Reg.lat.458 2nd C.U. (fols 37-52) XI / XII 1001 1200 - Fleury - Collections of Paul Petau (1568–1614). _Vita secunda sancti Pauli Aureliani_ (lacunose). 0 0 This codicological unit originally formed a single MS with [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.646](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/199), fols 58–59. While the Fleury provenance is certain, on the other hand the place of origin of this MS is unclear: it seems that neither Brittany nor a Frankish scriptorium such as Fleury can be ruled out, although the latter option is perhaps more likely. n/a _L&S_ §828; _LF_ BF 1390; Pellegrin 1988: 247, 258; Poulin 2009: 294; Riché 2004: 21; Vidier 1965: 239, 246. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/193 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/193 11 369 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:10:48.000000Z 193 370 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:10:48.000000Z 193 371 Loire Valley Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:10:48.000000Z 193 372 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 371 4 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 193 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.458 194 MS Reg.lat.479 2nd C.U. (fols 9-24) IX 3/4 851 875 Unknown _Vita secunda sancti Samsonis_ (lacunose). 0 0 The codex now bearing the shelfmark Reg.lat.479 is an assemblage of nine fragments of various date and origin, bound together in the eleventh century (Poulin 2009: 337). Some of these components may have come from the library of Fleury, but this provenance does not seem to apply to the folios in question here (cf. _LF_ BF1392–5). The writing of the codicological unit containing the _Vita secunda sancti Samsonis_ must be chronologically close to the composition of the work itself, and this may indicate that it was indeed written in Brittany. However, the erasure of a mention of Samson's Breton ethnicity at fol. 11r (cf. Poulin 2009: 338, where the folio is erroneously indicated as '10v') could conversely point to this MS having been copied from a Breton exemplar by scribes working outside of Brittany (perhaps in a North-Western Frankish scriptorium?)—_pace_ Bischoff's confident ascription of this MS to 'Bretagne' (_Kat._ §6685). 6685 Pellegrin 1988: 270; Poulin 2009: 337–8. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/194 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/194 11 373 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 194 374 (Western) Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 194 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 9 11 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.479 195 MS Reg.lat.486 Fols 54-65 X 901 1000 Unknown - _Vita sancti Melanii_ (a 'hybrid' between the _Vita prima_ and the _Vita interpolata_) (54r-63r) - Gregory of Tours, _Liber in gloria confessorum_ (excerpt) (63v-64r) - _Liber de sancto Salomone_ (later addition) (64r) - Excerpts from the _Vita interpolata sancti Melanii_, with long sections erased (64v-65v) The following contents should be mentioned too: - Erased texts (possibly liturgical pieces) (66r-v) - Monastic office of Saint Melanius, with neumes (added in the eleventh century, probably after that the heterogeneous codex had been assembled) (67r-68r). 0 0 The codex now bearing the shelfmark Reg.lat.486 is an assemblage of several miscellaneous units, bound together in the eleventh century, perhaps in the region of Poitou (Poulin 2009: 253). Both the date and the origin of these folios are highly uncertain. No number; vol. III, p. 431 Deuffic 2011: 69; Huglo 1963: 62; _ILLB_ R190; _PMSB_ 318 (§111); Poulin 2009: 251, 253–4. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/195 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/195 11 4 375 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 195 376 (Western) Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:01.000000Z 195 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 16 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.486 196 MS Reg.lat.516 Whole MS (126 fols) IX ex. / X 876 900 Unknown Passionary. 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §6690) tentatively assigned this hagiographical MS (a large collection of _passiones_ of numerous saints) to Brittany, presumably on the basis of its script. This attribution, however, remains to be tested. 6690 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2020 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/196 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/196 11 377 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 196 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.516 197 MS Reg.lat.552 Flyleaf X 1/2 901 950 Abbey of Saint-Pierre de la Couture (Le Mans) Fragment from a missal: communion _Nemo te_. 0 0 The flyleaf of this ninth-century copy of Eusebius's _Historia Ecclesiastica_ comes from a tenth-century missal containing Breton neumes. Although we cannot rule out that this missal was written in a Breton scriptorium, the presence of Breton neumes is not a sufficient proof in favour of such an origin ( _pace_ Huglo (1963: 67). 6700 Deuffic 2011: 72; Huglo 1963: 67; _ILLB_ In34; _PMSB_ 318 (§112); Riché 2004: 17, 21. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/197 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/197 4 378 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 197 379 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 197 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 16 198 MS Reg.lat.567 1st C.U. (fols 1-18) X 901 1000 - Normandy? - Brittany? - Sens? - Fleury - Collection of Paul Petau (1568–1614). _Martyrologium Senonense_. 0 0 These folios originally constituted a single MS together with [Paris, BnF, NAL 1604](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/169). This _martyrologium_ was probably written at either Sens or Fleury, but (for reasons unclear to me) Bannister suggested a Breton provenance (Bannister 1913: 33, 'scritto per la Bretagna'). No number; vol. III, p. 241 Bannister 1913: 33–4; _LF_ BF1414; Vidier 1965: 58 (n. 202), 64, 117. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/198 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/198 4 380 Central Francia Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:46:55.000000Z 198 381 Sens Possibly 48°12'01.4"N 3°16'57.6"E coordinates for Sens 48.200389 3.282667 380 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 198 382 Loire Valley Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:18:40.000000Z 198 383 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 382 4 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 198 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 26 199 MS Reg.lat.646 Fragment (fols 58-59) XI / XII 1001 1200 - Fleury - Collection of Paul Petau (1568–1614). _Vita secunda sancti Pauli Aureliani_ (lacunose). 0 0 This codicological unit originally formed a single MS with [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.458](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/193), fols 37–52. n/a Carey 1923: 130–1; _L&S_ §828; _LF_ BF 1457; Pellegrin 1988: 247, 258; Poulin 2009: 294; Riché 2004: 21; Vidier 1965: 239, 246. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/199 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/199 11 384 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:19:28.000000Z 199 385 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:19:28.000000Z 199 386 Loire Valley Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:19:28.000000Z 199 387 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 386 4 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 199 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.646 200 MS Reg.lat.691 Whole MS (120 fols) XI 1001 1100 - Saint-Aubin of Angers - Collection of Paul Petau (1568-1614). - Haymo of Halberstadt, _Homiliae de tempore_ (fragment) (flyleaves and fol. I) - Orosius, _Historiae adversus paganos_ (1r-115v) - Isidore, _Chronicon_ (115v-120v). 1 0 This is in all likelihood a copy of [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Vat.lat.1974](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/205) (cf. Lambert 1988: 213–14, 220). The Angers provenance is certain, and in fact this MS was probably also written there (cf. Vezin 1974: 271–3). For more details on the Breton MSS containing glosses to Orosius's _Historiae_, see the entry concerning [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192) in the present Handlist. n/a Bauer 2008: 186; Bauer 2019: 92 (siglum R); _DGVB_ 6; Lambert 1988: 213–14, 220; Lambert 2018: 26; Lemoine 1985: 291; Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 100); Szerwiniack 2007: 171, 196–7; Vezin 1974: 51, 271–3. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/200 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/200 19 17 27 388 Loire Valley Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:19:54.000000Z 200 389 Angers Possibly 47°28'06.1"N 0°33'11.4"W coordinates for Saint-Aubin of Angers 47.468361 -0.553167 388 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 200 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 4 15 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.691 201 MS Reg.lat.1260 4th C.U. (fols 125-179) X 901 1000 Fleury - Aethicus Ister, _Cosmographia_ (125r-164v) - Glossaries, or more precisely _Hermeneumata_ dealing with several kinds of objects, especially plants and herbs, minerals, pigments, etc., with an emphasis on lexemes of Greek origin (165r-178v) - Empty folio (179r) - Various annotations and one line of verse with neumes (179v). 0 1 Reg.lat.1260 is a miscellaneous codex containing several codicological units of different date and origin, but mostly dealing with cosmology, geography and _computus_, and 'bound up at an early date' (as pointed out in _LF_ p. 279): the unit in question here is the fourth (fols 125–179), or possibly the fourth and the fifth according to Mostert, who treats fols 125–164 and 165–179 as distinct units (with a dating 's. X' for the former and 's. X/XI' for the latter; cf. _LF_ BF1485 and 1486). Bischoff (_Kat._, vol. III, p. 439) did not commit to any geographical attribution, and the relevant entry in his _Katalog_ only offers a broad tenth-century dating for fols 125–164. While neither Bischoff nor Mostert hint at a possible Breton origin of this section of Reg.lat.1260, Deuffic (_PMSB_ 318, §113) drew attention to Grosjean's suggestion that fols 125r–136v of the (Hiberno-Latin?) _Cosmographia_ of Aethicus Ister were penned by the same hand that also wrote [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.81](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/190), i.e. the only extant copy of recension A of the _Hisperica Famina_ (and not [Reg.lat.49](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/189), as erroneously indicated by Deuffic): moreover, this scribe may be no other than the elusive Liosmonocus (about whom see the entry for [Reg.lat.81](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/190) in the present Handlist), who was active in Brittany and/or at Fleury during the ninth century (cf. Grosjean 1956: 38–40). Clearly, a complete reassessment of all the MSS and texts possibly associated with Liosmonocus is a major _desideratum_ (this should include an evaluation of the script of the glossaries occurring at fols 165r–178v of Reg.lat.1260, two of which can also be found in Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 337, possibly written at Fleury; cf. Carey 1923: 135; _LF_ BF159 and BF1486). It is also worth noting that the third codicological unit of Reg.lat.1260 (fols 87–124), possibly written in the Loire Valley or at Saint-Denis, contains at fols 87r–99v a copy of the Irish computistical tract _De ratione conputandi_ (cf. Ó Cróinín 1988: 107–9). Moreover, among the various computistical texts that occur within the same codicological unit, we can find (fols 119r-v) a copy of a lunar _argumentum_ of possible Breton origin, containing the 'Hisperic' phrase _tithis turgescentis dodrantem_ (on which see Bisagni 2013–14; Bisagni 2017). For some notes on the lexicographical materials contained in this codicological unit, see Cinato 2020: 263 (esp. n. 48). No number; vol. III, 439 Carey 1923: 134–5; Cinato 2020: 263; Grosjean 1956: 39; _LF_ BF1485 and BF1486; Ó Cróinín 1988: 107–9; _PMSB_ 318 (§113). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/201 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/201 39 9 390 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:20:29.000000Z 201 391 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:20:29.000000Z 201 392 Loire Valley Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:20:29.000000Z 201 393 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 392 4 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 201 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 3 10 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1260 202 MS Reg.lat.1263 Whole MS (103 fols) XI in (probably c. AD 1007) 1001 1025 Micy-Saint-Mesmin This manuscript contains a heterogeneous compilation of computistical, cosmological and prognostic texts, tables and diagrams, mostly anonymous, but also including excerpts from Isidore's _De natura rerum_ and _Etymologiae_, and from Bede's computistical and cosmological works, as well as materials associated with Abbo of Fleury (cf. Denoël 2019). Texts including dating clauses for AD 863 and 936 occur, respectively, at fols 28v and 42r. It is also worth highlighting the presence of a calendar accompanied by striking iconography of human seasonal activities at fols 65r-75r. 0 1 This manuscript was written at the abbey of Micy-Saint-Mesmin, near Orléans, in the early eleventh century (probably c. AD 1007, as shown by the paschal table at fols 61v–64r; note also the dating to 'wohl kurz vor 1100' in Borst 2001: I, 223, which however seems too late). It has been recently the object of a detailed study by Charlotte Denoël (2019), focussing on its script and iconography. Denoël stresses in particular the strong links between Micy, Fleury, and Chartres. Some observations regarding a possible Breton connection can here be added to Denoël's analysis: indeed, this MS presents some affinities with the contents of the two tenth-century codices [Angers, BM, 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8), written in Brittany, and [Paris, BnF, Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), probably copied in Fleury from a lost Breton exemplar. The most striking instance is a tract concerning the course of the Sun and the Moon against the backdrop of the Zodiac, curiously copied twice in Reg.lat.1263, at 30v–31r and again at fol. 48r: this text is rare, with copies only found (besides the present MS) in [Lat. 6400B](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/138), fol. 251v; [Angers 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8), fols 32v-33r; Tortosa, Arxiu Capitular, 10, fols 16r-v; and Paris, BnF, Lat. 7569, 105r–107v. The _incipit_ of the second copy in Reg.lat.1263 (the one at fol. 48r) reads _De diuersitate cursus sol(is) ɔ-c celu(m)_: the sign _ɔ-c_ is an abbreviation for _contra_, and it is a strong Breton diagnostic feature (cf. the entries for [Bern, Burgerbibliothek, 167](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/20); [Chartres, BM, 98](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/43); [London, BL, Royal 5.E.XIII](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/78); [Orléans, Médiathèque, 221](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99); [Oxford, Bodleian Libray, Auct. F.4.32](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/113); [Paris, BnF, Lat. 4839](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/135) and [NAL 1587](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/168); [Saint Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, 759](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/209); on this abbreviation, see also Lemoine 2008: 190–1). The fact that the text in question (as well as several others) can be also found in tenth-century Breton computistical manuscripts, coupled with the occurrence of the peculiar abbreviation for _contra_, suggest that this tract—and perhaps other materials too— were either copied from a Breton exemplar or ultimately derived from a Breton archetype (for example, such materials could have easily reached Micy via Fleury; moreover, see Deuffic 2008: 115 for some possible historical connections between Brittany and Micy, ). For analyses of the beautifully illustrated calendar at fols 65r–75r, see Borst 2001: I, 223–4 (for its computistical contents and the manuscript family to which it belongs, namely what Borst labelled the 'Salzburger enzyklopädische Fassung') and Denoël 2019: 138–53 (for its rich iconography focussing on human seasonal activities). n/a Borst 2001: I, 223–4; Delisle 1876: 489–90; Denoël 2019; [_Innovating Knowledge_](https://isidore.sd.di.huc.knaw.nl/#detail/M0460 ). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 20-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/202 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/202 6 8 5 30 20 394 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:20:45.000000Z 202 395 Abbey of Micy-Saint-Mesmin Certainly 47°52'35.6''N 1°50'18.7''E coordinates for the abbey of Micy 47.876556 1.838528 394 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 202 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 2 11 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1263 203 MS Reg.lat.1283 A Fragment (fol. 65) X med. (c. AD 944) 944 950 Saint-Aubin of Angers - A brief excerpt from Bede's _De temporibus_, chapter XV (65r) - Brief passages in a later hand: a computistical _argumentum_ on the increment of the _saltus lunae_ and a passage on the tones between planets (65r) - Breton, Norman and Northern French genealogies in a late 11th-century hand (65v). 1 0 Bischoff (Kat. §6773) described the script of this folio as 'Insulesk' and seemed to consider it of ninth-century date. In fact, this fragment was originally the last folio of the tenth-century MS [Angers, BM, 476](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/8). This folio proves that the whole MS must have reached the abbey of Saint-Aubin of Angers by the end of the eleventh century, when an important series of Breton, Norman and Northern French genealogies were added on the verso. 6773 Crisp 2003; Pellegrin 1988: 261–2; Poupardin 1900. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 26-06-2022 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/203 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/203 6 44 396 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:21:53.000000Z 203 397 Redon Possibly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 396 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 203 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 7 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1283.pt.A 204 MS Vat.lat.1480 Whole MS (136 fols) IX 1/2 801 850 Unknown Priscian, _Institutiones grammaticae_ (lacunose), with glosses and scholia. 1 0 According to Bischoff (_Kat._ §6857), this heavily glossed copy of Priscian's _Institutiones grammaticae_ was written at Tours during the first half of the ninth century. The ascription to Tours has been tentatively adopted by Cinato (2015: 577), who, however, has also added a tell-tale question mark and a more general attribution to North-Western Francia. The presence of two or possibly three Old Breton glosses (Stokes 1891; _DGVB_ 6) might point to a Breton origin, but if the dating to the first half of the ninth century is correct, then we would perhaps expect to see more marked insular features in a MS originating from a Breton scriptorium. Moreover, given that the see of Tours had (at least officially) archiepiscopal authority over Brittany, it would not be particularly strange if a Breton scribe worked in a scriptorium in the area of Tours and added a few vernacular glosses there. Alternatively, this MS may have been copied from an exemplar that already contained some Old Breton glosses (cf. the entries for [Paris, BnF, Lat. 10289](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/145) and [Lat. 10290](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/146)). 6857 Bauer 2008: 182; Cinato 2015: 577–8; _DGVB_ 6; Lemoine 1985: 289; Lemoine 1985b: 46; _PMSB_ 317 (§106); Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 172 (n. 106); Stokes 1891. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/204 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/204 13 22 398 Western Francia Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:22:11.000000Z 204 399 Tours Possibly 47°23'35.6"N 0°40'57.1"E coordinates for Tours 47.393222 0.682528 398 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 204 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 4 12 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.1480 205 MS Vat.lat.1974 Whole MS (123 fols) X ex. / XI 976 1100 Angers - Orosius, _Historiae adversus paganos_ (1r-103r) - Isidore, _Chronicon_ (103v-107v) - _Gesta Alexandri Magni_ (with the latter two words of the title erased) (107v-115v) - _Epistola Alexandri Macedonis ad Aristotelem magistrum suum de itinere suo et de situ Indiae_ (115v-121r) - Letter of AD 1078 by Pope Gregory VII (added) (121r-v) - Cassiodorus, _Historia ecclesiastica_ (fragment) (122r-123v) - Exercise (?) of solmization added in the upper margin (122v). 1 0 This MS was probably the exemplar of [Rome, BAV, Reg.lat.691](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/200), which was written at Angers. It seems virtually certain that Vat.lat.1974 too was written at Angers, by two scribes (cf. Vezin 1974: 99, 237) who copied both the text of Orosius and the glosses from a Breton exemplar. Some of the glosses in this MS occur also in other Breton copies of Orosius's _Historiae_, especially [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192) and [Venice, Bibl. Marciana, MS Zanetti Lat. 349](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/222). n/a Bauer 2008: 182–3; Bauer 2019: _passim_ (siglum L); _DGVB_ 7; Lambert 1988: 213–14, 220; Lambert 2018: 26; Lemoine 1985: 291; _PMSB_ 317 (§107); Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 100); Szerwiniack 2007: 171, 196–7; Vezin 1974: 99, 137, 237–8. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/205 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/205 19 17 400 Loire Valley Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:22:26.000000Z 205 401 Angers Possibly 47°28'06.1"N 0°33'11.4"W coordinates for Saint-Aubin of Angers 47.468361 -0.553167 400 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 205 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 4 15 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.1974 206 MS Vat.lat.3363 Whole MS (60 fols) IX in. 801 825 Glastonbury (s. X) - Boethius, _De consolatione Philosophiae_, with abundant scholia (2v-60r) - Brief glossary to Prudentius, _Psychomachia_ (60r-v, almost entirely effaced on the verso). 1 0 This important early ninth-century copy of Boethius's _Consolatio_ contains late ninth-century glosses presenting 'Celtic' palaeographical features and including (at fol. 37r) one Brittonic gloss, whose exact linguistic identity is however unclear: it could be either Old Breton or Old Cornish (cf. Sims-Williams 2005). Troncarelli (1981: 137–51) and Bischoff (_Kat._ §6877; cf. also Bischoff 1977: 40, n. 4) ascribed this MS to the Loire Valley, Fleury being a particularly strong candidate. As a consequence, it cannot be ruled out that the gloss in question is indeed in Old Breton: it may have been added by a Breton scribe working at Fleury, or alternatively, it may have been written in Brittany after that the MS reached that region from the Loire Valley, before continuing its journey to Britain. However, we must also consider that, as has been pointed out by Papahagi (2010: 22), Vat.Lat.3363 is 'possibly the earliest surviving manuscript of the _Consolatio_ to have reached Britain' (in addition to being 'one of the best and earliest codices of the _Consolatio_' _tout court_; cf. also Teeuwen 2020: 285–6): this fact rather suggests that the vernacular gloss was perhaps inserted when the MS was already in Britain, in which case its language could rather be Cornish. Indeed, the combined palaeographical, codicological, textual and linguistic evidence does seem to point to the this as the more likely solution (cf. the convenient summaries in Papahagi 2010: 22–7 and Love 2012: 121–5). Still, even in this case it is not clear whether the MS went first from the Loire Valley to Cornwall (via Brittany?), and only subsequently to England, or whether the 'Celtic' glosses (including the vernacular one) were added by a Cornish scribe active in an English centre. At least we do know that around the mid-tenth century the MS must have reached Glastonbury, where it was glossed again, possibly by Saint Dunstan himself (cf. Gameson 2012c: 347). 6877 _ASM_ 657 (§908); Bischoff 1977: 40 (n. 4); Gameson 2012c: 347; Lambert 2018: 40; _LF_ BF1313; Love 2012: 94, 121–5; Papahagi 2010: _passim_, esp. 22–7, 33 (n. 76), 50, 167–9; Parkes 1981; Schrijver 2011: 11; Sims-Williams 2005; Teeuwen 2020: 285–6; Troncarelli 1981: 137–51, 153–96. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 14-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/206 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/206 9 23 22 402 Loire Valley Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:22:53.000000Z 206 403 Fleury Possibly 47°48'34.0"N 2°18'20.0"E coordinates for the abbey of Fleury 47.809444 2.305556 402 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 206 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 2 26 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3363 207 MS Vat.lat.3865 Whole MS (57 fols) IX 2/2 851 900 Italy (s. XV) Boethius, _De consolatione Philosophiae_. 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ §6893) ascribed the MS to Francia, but 'Nähe zur Bretagne?', presumably on account of its script. I am not aware of any other specific piece of evidence supporting this localization. Since the MS was incomplete, the missing text at the end was supplied in the fifteenth century, probably in Italy (fols 57r-v). 6893 Love 2012: 95; Papahagi 2010: 52. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/207 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/207 23 21 404 North-Western Francia near Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 207 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 9 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3865 208 MS Vat.lat.9668 1st C.U. (fols 1-9) XI ex. / XII in. 1076 1125 - Mont-Saint-Michel? - Collège de Clermont (Paris) - Collection of Angelo Mai (1782–1854) - Life of Saint Marcellinus (1r-6r) - Office of Saint Marcellinus (6v-9v). 0 0 The relics of Pope Marcellinus had been kept at Redon since AD 847 (_ILLB_ V208, p. 171), and this is the reason behind the texts occurring at fols 1r–9v of Vat.lat.9668. This codicological unit, almost certainly written at Redon around AD 1100, was eventually bound with other units produced for the most part at Mont-Saint-Michel—an abbey which our MS may have reached at an early stage (close contacts between Redon and Mont-Saint-Michel in the eleventh century are well documented). n/a Deuffic 2011: 69; Huglo 1963: 63; _ILLB_ V208. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/208 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/208 11 4 405 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:23:21.000000Z 208 406 Redon Possibly 47°39'00.6"N 2°05'01.8"W coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon 47.650167 -2.083833 405 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 208 56 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Rome (Città del Vaticano) 7 16 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.9668 209 MS 759 Whole MS (94 pp.) IX in. 801 825 Saint-Gall Medical compilation, including recipes by Galenus and Oribasius (acephalous, lacunose and incomplete; for a detailed description of the contents, see Beccaria 1956: 384–5). 0 0 Beccaria (1956: 384) described the script of this MS as follows: 'Minuscola del principio del secolo IX, mista di elementi insulari e continentali.' This description echoes Lindsay's, who characterised it as a 'rude minuscule of Insular type' and dated it to 'saec. viii–ix' (Lindsay 1915: 485). Accordingly, Bischoff's ascription of this MS to Brittany seems very plausible (cf. _Kat._ §5846, based on Bischoff 1966–81: III, 15, where this MS is discussed together with [Orléans, Médiathèque, MS 221](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99) and [MS 302](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/104), i.e. other Breton codices possibly dating from the early ninth century; cf. also Bischoff 1994: 30, where Saint-Gall 759 is described as 'the barbarian Receptarium'). Indeed, this MS contains a strong Breton diagnostic feature: the abbreviation _ɔc_ (and _ɔ-c_) for _contra_ (e.g. p. 1, l. 15; p. 7, l. 2 from the bottom, etc.; for more information on this abbreviation, see the entry for [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.1263](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/202) in the present Handlist). While this MS would undoubtedly deserve to be studied in greater detail, especially from the palaeographical and linguistic points of view, a Breton origin seems in any case highly probable. Unfortunately, it is unclear how and when this MS reached Saint-Gall. 5846 Beccaria 1956: 384–6 (§135); Bischoff 1966–81: III, 15, 40; Bischoff 1994: 30; [_E-Codices_](https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/description/csg/0759/); Lindsay 1915: 485; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 95). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/209 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/209 18 407 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:48:45.000000Z 209 57 Stiftsbibliothek Saint-Gall 1 https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0759 210 MS 666 Fols 3–43 X 1/2 901 950 Saint-Bertin (s. XII) - Alcuin, _Dialogus Franconis et Saxonis de octo partibus orationis_ (3r-43r) - Hisperic poem _Adelphus adelpha meter_ (fol. 43r-v). 1 1 This MS contains the Hisperic poem _Adelphus adelpha meter_, also occurring, with Latin glosses, in [Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg. 5.35](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/40); note however that, unlike the Cambridge MS, the Saint-Omer copy contains 13 Old Breton glosses (in this context, it is worth mentioning for the sake of accuracy that Cinato's recent claim that Fleuriot 'found in this manuscript about 50 Old Irish glosses and 300 Brittonic glosses' (Cinato 2020: 260, n. 40) is erroneous, and undoubtedly due to a simple confusion with [Paris, BnF, Lat. 10290](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/146), which is listed immediately before the Saint-Omer manuscript in Fleuriot's _DGVB_ 5). Although Bischoff (_Kat._ §5409) had no hesitation in attributing this MS to Brittany, presumably on the basis of its script and vernacular glosses, it seems at least conceivable that Saint-Omer 666 may in fact have been copied in a Northern Frankish scriptorium from a Breton exemplar (perhaps at Montreuil-sur-Mer or Saint-Bertin? Cf. e.g. Herren 1987: 22; Le Bourdellès 1995: 45, 'N'aurait-il pas été copié sur un manuscrit amené par les Bretons à Montreuil et contenant ce texte [i.e. _Adelphus adelpha meter_] glosé par un Breton?'). The fact that some of the vernacular glosses show signs of linguistic corruption might indeed lend support to the latter view (cf. e.g. Thurneysen 1890: 89; _DGVB_ 54, s.v. _adla(n)uou_ 'rising tide', gl. Lat. _dodrantibus_). 5409 Barbet-Massin 2013: 370; Bauer 2008: 179–82; Borst 2006: I, 287; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D03011358); _CGM_ 3 (series in quarto): 291–2; Cinato 2020: 259–60; _CLH_ §270; _DGVB_ 5; Herren 1974b: 71; Herren 1987: 21–3; [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/13923/14530); Jenkinson 1908: xxxviii–xxxix; Lambert 2018: 24–5; Lapidge 1992: 104–8; Lemoine 1985: 288; Le Bourdellès 1995: 45; _L&S_ §897; _PMSB_ 318 (§114); Schrijver 2011: 9; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 99); Thurneysen 1890: 86–90; Ugé 2005: 42. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/210 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/210 13 16 408 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:24:48.000000Z 210 409 Northern Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:24:48.000000Z 210 410 Saint-Bertin Possibly 50°45'02.7"N 2°15'50.8"E coordinates for the abbey of Saint-Bertin 50.750750 2.264111 409 3 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 210 411 Montreuil-sur-Mer Possibly 50°27'52.6"N 1°45'49.8"E 50.464611 1.763833 409 4 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 210 58 BM Saint-Omer 3 11 https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/consult/consult.php?reproductionId=19266 211 MS 27/4-35 Single bifolium XI 1001 1100 Unknown Gradual (fragment). 0 0 This bifolium was listed by Huglo (1963: 68) among the liturgical 'fragments d'origine inconnue' containing Breton neumes. Its place (or area) of origin remains unknown. n/a Deuffic 2011: 72; Huglo 1963: 68; _PMSB_ 318 (§115). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 07-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/211 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/211 4 412 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 211 413 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 211 59 Stiftsbibliothek Saint Paul im Lavanttal (Saint Paul in Carinthia) 3 16 212 MS 180 Whole MS (173 fols) X 901 1000 - Montreuil-sur-Mer? - Salisbury - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (1r-17v) - Gallican and Hebrew Psalter (18r-163v) - Hymns (164r-170r) - Litanies and prayers (170v-173v). 0 1 This Psalter reached England from Brittany, or perhaps from the exiled Breton community at Montreuil-sur-Mer (cf. Le Bourdellès 1995: 46; Lebecq 2015b: 168), during the tenth century (Lapidge 1992: 100, n. 24). The litanies at the end of the MS contain a section (fols 171r-v) listing numerous Breton saints, possibly pointing to a connection with the diocese of Léon (cf. Warren 1888; Duine 1922: 46–8; Lapidge 1991: 288–95; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 276; _ILLB_ In36, esp. pp. 113–14). Interestingly, this 'Breton section' also lists a few Irish saints: Munna, Patrick, Colum Cille, and Columbanus. n/a _ASM_ 539–40 (§754); Brett 2017: 96, 99; Gretsch 1999: 275, 277; _ILLB_ In36; _L&S_ §976; Lapidge 1991: 84, 288–95; Lapidge 1992: 100, n. 24; Le Bourdellès 1995: 46; Lebecq 2015b: 168; Lebecq 2020: 94 (erroneously indicated as 'ms. 140'); _PMSB_ 318 (§116); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 276; Warren 1888. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 14-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/212 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/212 3 28 4 17 414 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:02.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:25:54.000000Z 212 415 Léon Possibly 48°41'05.9"N 3°59'08.9"W 48.684972 -3.985806 414 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 212 416 Northern Francia Possibly 3 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:25:54.000000Z 212 417 Montreuil-sur-Mer Possibly 50°27'52.6"N 1°45'49.8"E coordinates for Montreuil-sur-Mer 50.464611 1.763833 416 4 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 212 60 Cathedral Library Salisbury 3 32 34 213 NMB 1927 Whole MS (210 fols) XI 1001 1100 - Collection of the Count of Kergariou at the castle of Bonnaban (near Saint-Malo) - Library Joseph Martini (Lucerne). - Empty folio (1r) - Prefatory materials on the Gospels, including Eusebian canon tables (1v-24v) - Depiction of Christ in Majesty (18r) - Portrait of Saint Matthew (18v) - Gospel of Matthew (25r-76v) - Portrait of Saint Mark (77r) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by prologue and capitula (incomplete) (77r-106v) - Portrait of Saint Luke (107r) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by prologue and capitula (107r-158v) - Portrait of Saint John (159r) - Gospel of John, preceded by prologue and capitula (159r-199r) - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ (199r-209v) - Empty folio (210r-v). 0 0 This MS, also known as 'Gospels of Saint-Georges of Rennes', was in all likelihood written in a Breton scriptorium, possibly in the area of Rennes or at Rennes itself. The list of contents presented above is based on _ILLB_ R182. n/a Duine 1922: 57 (§32bis); _ILLB_ R182. 0 Jacopo Bisagni 25-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/213 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/213 1 418 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:49:35.000000Z 213 419 Rennes Possibly 48°06'46.4"N 1°41'10.8"W coordinates for Rennes 48.112889 -1.686333 418 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 213 61 Nationalmuseum Stockholm 1 214 MS 10.B.4 Whole MS (2 units: [1] fols 1-30, 54-197; [2] 31-53) VIII 2/2 / IX in. 751 825 Unknown _Collectio Canonum Sancti Mauri_ and other compilations of canon laws. 0 0 A Breton origin for this collection of canons is suggested in _EBGB_ 13 (n. 1), and this hypothesis is repeated in _PMSB_ 299 (where this MS is erroneously described as a Gospel-book of 'origine bretonne probable'). In fact, there does not seem any evidence pointing to a Breton origin, judging from _CLA_, vol. 10, §1572a, and _Kat._ §1442a. Fols 1–30 and 54–197, containing canon laws, were probably written in a Northern Frankish scriptorium (Rheims?) during the second half of the eighth century. Fols 31–53, also containing mainly Church canons, are written in an early form of Caroline minuscule and may have been produced in a Northern Frankish centre between the late eighth and early ninth century (cf. _CLA_, vol. 10, §1572b). 1442a _CLA_ 10, §§1572a and 1572b = [_ELMSS_](https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/298) and [_ELMSS_](https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/299); _EBGB_ 13 (n. 1); Fleuriot 1983: 104; _PMSB_ 299 (§33). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/214 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/214 25 420 Northern Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:26:24.000000Z 214 421 Rheims Possibly 49°15'13.9"N 4°02'02.3"E coordinates for Rheims 49.253861 4.033972 420 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 214 62 Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum The Hague 2 https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/298 Not on-line (last checked 31/03/2020), but some samples from this manuscript can be seen at https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/299 Not on-line (last checked 31/03/2020), but some samples from this manuscript can be seen at 215 MS 17 Whole MS (139 fols) IX 2/2 851 900 Saint-Pern (diocese of Saint-Malo) - Gospel prefaces (1r-4v) - Eusebian canon tables (5r-6v) - Potrait of Saint Matthew (9v) - Gospel of Matthew (incomplete) - Gospel of Mark (acephalous) - Gospel of Luke - Portrait of Saint John (138v) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula - _Capitulare evangeliorum_ - Detailed colophon mentioning the names of the scribe Gleuhitr and the abbot Loeisguoret (139v) Fols 48-75 are 15th-century additions. 1 0 The Breton origin of this MS, also known as 'Gospels of Saint-Pern' (where Saint-Pern < Saint Bern, i.e. Saint Paternus), is confirmed by the detailed colophon at fol. 173v, where the names of the scribe and his abbot (at Saint-Pern?)—respectively Gleuhitr and Loeisguoret—are mentioned (cf. _PMSB_ 319; Deuffic 2008: 102; _ILLB_ In26, p. 74). It is possible that this Gospel-book was written by Gleuhitr at Saint-Pern, but we cannot rule out that it was written elsewhere in Brittany (perhaps at Saint-Méen de Gaël, as suggested in Guillotel 1985: 29 and Deuffic 2008: 102) and was later offered by the scribe to the church of Saint-Pern (the colophon is somewhat ambiguous on this point). 6113 Deuffic 2008: 102; _EBGB_ 15 (n. 3), 16–23; Fleuriot 1983: 104; Guillotel 1982: 280–1; Guillotel 1985: 26–9; _ILLB_ In26; Kitzinger 2013b: 40 (n. 23); Lemoine 2002; Lemoine 2005: 22; _PMSB_ 319 (§117); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 284, 289–90. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 14-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/215 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/215 1 422 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:26:43.000000Z 215 423 Saint-Pern Possibly 48°17'18.1"N 1°59'14.5"W coordinates for Saint-Pern 48.288361 -1.987361 422 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 215 63 Basilique Notre-Dame de la Nativité (Trésor de la Cathédrale) Tongeren / Tongres 7 http://balat.kikirpa.be/object/39176 A few folios can be seen (in B/W) at 216 MS 282 Whole MS (97 fols) IX 3/4 851 875 Saint-Gatien of Tours - Added letter of the clergy of Nantes to Pope Leo IX, AD 1051 (1r-v) - Augustinus, _Epistulae_ (2r-97v). 0 0 This MS was in all likelihood written at Tours, possibly in the third quarter of the ninth century. The first folio, however, is an eleventh-century addition containing a letter sent in AD 1051 by the clergy of Nantes to Pope Leo IX to complain about the conduct of Aerardus (never named explicitly in the letter), who had been named Bishop of Nantes by the Pope in AD 1049 (ed. Morice 1742: cols 397–8). 6131 [_Bibale_](http://bibale.irht.cnrs.fr/47280); [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D37A12662); _CGM_ 37: 208–9; _PMSB_ 319 (§118). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/216 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/216 17 424 Western Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:26:55.000000Z 216 425 Tours Certainly 47°23'35.6"N 0°40'57.1"E coordinates for Tours 47.393222 0.682528 424 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 216 64 BM Tours 2 217 MS 556 Destroyed MS (originally 66 fols) IX ex. 875 900 Marmoutier This MS, destroyed during the Second World War, contained a large collection of canon law, including a partial copy of recension A of the _Collectio canonum Hibernensis_. 0 1 This manuscript was destroyed during the Second World War. It contained a copy of several chapters of the A-text of the _Collectio canonum Hibernensis_. Given the marked interest in the _Hibernensis_ in Early Medieval Brittany (cf. e.g. the entries for [London, British Library, Cotton Otho E.XIII](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/69); [Orléans, Médiathèque, 221](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/99); [Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/118)), and in view of this manuscript's Marmoutier provenance (and origin?), there is certainly a theoretical possibility that these contents were copied (or ultimately derived) from a Breton exemplar. The text of this copy of the _Hibernensis_ may have been particularly close to that of [Cambrai, BM, MS 679](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/30) (cf. Flechner 2019: I, 94–5). For a dating of this MS to the last quarter of the ninth century, cf. Dumville 1994: 93, n. 16. 6140 Bradshaw 1889: 415; Bradshaw 1893: 18–19; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D37A15943); _CGM_ 37: 447–9; _CLH_ 768 (§600); Dumville 1994: 93; Flechner 2019: I, 94–5, 113 (n. 1); Kéry 1999: 74. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/217 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/217 25 426 Western Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:27:14.000000Z 217 427 Marmoutier Possibly 47°24'10.3"N 0°43'00.3"E coordinates for the abbey of Marmoutier 47.402861 0.716750 426 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 217 64 BM Tours 2 12 218 MS 564/806 octavo Fragment (fols 61-70) IX ex. / X 876 1000 Abbey of Saint Eucharius (Trier) - Prayer, inc. _Deus qui in monte caluarie lignum sancte crucis ostendisti_ (added) (61r) - Prayer, inc. _Induit me Dominus uestimento salutis_ (added) (61r) - Tract titled _Adnotationes evangeliis_, taken from Isidore of Seville, _Allegoriae quaedam Sacrae Scripturae_, _ex Novo Testamento_ (or perhaps from Rhabanus Maurus's _De Universo_, IV, 1) (61v-70v) - 'Trierer Teufelssprüche' (65v) 0 0 Bischoff (_Kat._ III, 367) ascribed this fragment to tenth-century Brittany, describing its contents as 'Adnotationes evangeliis.' In fact, these folios contain a section from Isidore's _Allegoriae ex Novo Testamento_ (or perhaps from Rhabanus Maurus's _De Universo_ IV, 1, _De his personis quae ad Novum Testamentum pertinent_), bearing the title _Adnotationes euangeliis_ (fol. 61v). The question of this manuscript's possible Breton origin would require a thorough reassessment, but in the meantime we may note that _ɔ_ is frequently used for _con_, and that both _.i._ and _.id.ē._ are found for _id est_. Moreover, there are several changes of hand (e.g. fols 66r, 67r, 67v). It should also be noted that a tenth- or eleventh-century German hand added on fol. 65v a cryptographic text usually referred to as 'Trierer Teufelssprüche': the coded text consists in an invocation to Christ against the devil (cf. Cianci 2004: 213–14; a similar coded text can be found in London, BL, Add. 10940). No number; vol. III, p. 376 Bushey 1996: 319; Cianci 2004: 213–14; [_Handschriftencensus_](http://www.handschriftencensus.de/8871). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/218 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/218 2 4 428 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 218 65 Stadtbibliothek Trier 3 http://dfg-viewer.de/show/cache.off?tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=127&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=http%3A%2F%2Fzimks68.uni-trier.de%2Fstmatthias%2FT0564%2FT0564-digitalisat.xml&tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&cHash=ab14b1e84b1d333c1a841ce8c76efe4f 219 MS Fonds ancien 960 Whole MS (151 fols) AD 908-909 908 909 - Rospez (Côtes-d’Armor) (?) - Besançon (?) - Clairvaux - Collection of the Bouhier family (AD 1721). - Crucifixion scene and dating clause (1r) - Jerome, Letter to Pope Damasus (1v-2r) - Jerome, Preface to the four Gospels (2r-v) - Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus (3r-v) - Pseudo-Jerome, Letter inc. _Sciendum etiam_ (3v) - Preface and capitula for Matthew's Gospel (3v-5r) - Eusebian canon tables (5r-10v) - Gospel of Matthew (acephalous) (11r-41r) - Gospel of Mark, preceded by preface and capitula (41r-66v) - Portrait of Saint Mark (43v) - Gospel of Luke, preceded by preface and capitula (66v-107v) - Colophon of Matian and Digrenet (71r) - Portrait of Saint Luke (71v) - Gospel of John, preceded by preface and capitula (107v-136v) - Portrait of Saint John (108v) - _Capitulare euangeliorum de circulo anni_ (136v-147r) - Additional Gospel readings for various occasions (e.g. _pro ubertate pluuiae_, _pro sterilitate pluuiae_, _in commotione gentium_, etc.) (147v-148r) - Added notes on various subjects: eclipses; a passage on the nature of the soul attributed to Augustine but possibly taken from the _Epistola ad Grimaldum_ by Ermenrich of Ellwangen (d. AD 874); a series of triads concerning shadows (inc. _Tria sunt in facienda umbra, id est lux corpus locus_); the course of the Sun (148v) - Glossary (149r-v) - List of expenses for the preparation of various kinds of food, added in the 14th or 15th century in the region of Besançon (150r-151v). 1 0 This MS, which belongs to the so-called 'Landévennec group' of Gospel-books, can be confidently ascribed to Brittany thanks to the colophon on fol. 71r (on which see below); moreover, it can be dated very precisely to the end of AD 908 / beginning of AD 909 thanks to the chronological indications provided on fol. 1r, on both sides of a striking depiction of the Crucifixion. The colophon on fol. 71r, which appears to have been written by the main scribe, reads as follows: _Hę literule narrant quod dedit Matian et Digrenet coniux sua hos libros IIIIor euangeliorum D(e)o pro animabus suis ecclesiae Rosbeith. Et quicumque hoc euangelium uim forte duxerit ex ipsa ecclesia nisi discipulus scribere aut legere anathema sit. Am(en)_. While connections with both Saint-Gildas of Rhuys and Landévennec have been proposed in the past (e.g. Lemoine 1994b: 366–7; Lemoine 1995: 15), Deuffic may well be right in drawing attention to a possible link with the Trégor, if the place-name _Rosbeith_ mentioned in the colophon corresponds indeed to modern-day Rospez, a parish in the diocese of Tréguier (_ILLB_ In27, p. 85). It is unclear whether _Rosbeith_ indicates the place where the MS was written, or only the abbey to which the MS was donated by a Breton lay couple, Matian and Digrenet, after having been produced elsewhere in Brittany. Regardless, on account of its precise dating and its certain Breton origin, Troyes 960 offers a particularly useful benchmark against which other Gospel-books can be fruitfully evaluated in terms of palaeography, iconography and textual tradition (Kitzinger's studies of the Crucifixion scene and the evangelists' portraits in this MS are good steps in the right direction; cf. Kitzinger 2012 and 2013b). It is worth noting here the curious occurrence of a hybrid insular-continental abbreviation on fol. 147v, line 5: the insular sign for _secundum_ is here followed by the letter _c_. n/a Alexander 1985: 271; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D02A13187); _CGM_ 2 (in quarto): 394–5; _CMD_ V, 489; _EBGB_ 14 (n. 3); Fleuriot 1983: 104; Guillotel 1985: 12, 22–4; _ILLB_ V214 (mention), In27 (description); [_Initiale_](http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/4901/13297); Kerlouégan 1982b: 318; Kitzinger 2012; Kitzinger 2013b; Lemoine 1994b: 366–8; Lemoine 1995: 15; Lemoine 2001: 265, 268; Lemoine 2005: 15, 18, 21; Lemoine 2008: 187–8, 192; _MPF_ §94; _OHLP_ 257; _PMSB_ 319–20 (§119); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 284, 289–90; [_Wikipedia_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%C3%A9vennec_Group). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 12-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/219 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/219 1 20 4 429 Brittany Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:27:58.000000Z 219 430 Landévennec Possibly 48°17'25.5"N 4°15'59.5"W coordinates for the abbey of Landévennec 48.290417 -4.266528 429 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 219 431 Rospez Possibly 48°43'45.5"N 3°23'07.8"W coordinates for Rospez 48.729306 -3.385500 429 3 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 219 66 BM Troyes 7 https://portail.mediatheque.grand-troyes.fr/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=2.1224 220 MS 407 (389) Fragment (2 folios) IX 2/2 851 900 Saint-Amand Gradual (fragment). 0 0 According to Huglo (1963: 66), the fragment of a gradual contained in this MS (cf. Rankin 2018: 239, 'endleaf and offset on the binding of the main manuscript') originated from the same scriptorium as [Chartres, BM, 47](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/42). However, even if this were true, it would still not be sufficient to attribute the fragment to Brittany with any degree of certainty. 6395 [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc1122471/cN72775); [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D30021427); _CGM_ 25: 368–9; Deuffic 2011: 72; Huglo 1963: 66; _ILLB_ In31; _PMSB_ 320 (§120); Rankin 2018: 101, 239. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/220 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/220 4 432 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 220 433 Western Francia Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 220 67 BM Valenciennes 3 16 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84516477 221 MS 413 (394) 1st C.U. (fols 1-47) X in. 901 925 Saint-Amand - _Glossae collectae_ to Prudentius's works (possibly compiled by Remigius of Auxerre) (1r-47r) - Arithmetical problem, inc. _Bis duo nunc niuei praesunt et quinque nigelli_ (47v) - Arithmetical problem, inc. _Quadam nocte niger Dux nomen Candidus alter_ (47v). 1 1 This large collection of scholia—or more precisely _glossae collectae_—concerning Prudentius's works contains at least one possibly Old Breton word: _Eseforiu(m) (est) parua tunica que uulgo guursebalt d(icitu)r_ (this gloss occurs on fol. 19v; the reference to fol. 69 in _DGVB_ 204 is erroneous: 69 is rather the number of the page in Burnham 1910 where this gloss is edited). This raises the possibility that this commentary (or at least a part thereof) was copied in a Northern Frankish centre (near Rheims?) from a Breton (or Brittonic?) exemplar, or from a collection of scholia in whose compilation a Breton speaker took part (possibly at Auxerre, if the attribution of this commentary to Remigius of Auxerre is correct; for an overview of this attribution, see O'Sullivan 2004: 23–9). However, it should be stressed that, even if the word _guursebalt_ does look Brittonic, this lexeme nonetheless remains unexplained (cf. _DGVB_ 204–5; cf. also _DGVB_ 176 s.v. _gletlus_ for some observations concerning the even more obscure word _glitinne_, also occurring on fol. 19v of this MS, and not at fol. 70, as erroneously indicated by Fleuriot). As for the two riddle-poems on fol. 47v, they are copies of the Hiberno-Latin arithmetical _ludi_ also found in [Paris, BnF, Lat. 13029](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/155) and in many other MSS (cf. _CLH_ §417): here the reading _Dux_ in the first line of the second poem is a corruption of Old Irish _Dub_; the latter reading—clearly the _lectio difficilior_—now survives only in Lat. 13029 (cf. Dubreucq 2017: 136; note that the Valenciennes copy of these texts is listed under the old shelfmark number '394' in Strecker's edition in _MGH Poetae Latini aevi Carolini_ IV, 2, p. 1118, as well as in the list of witnesses in Dubreucq 2017: 135). No number; vol. III, p. 400 Bauer 2008: 182; [_BnF Archives et Manuscrits_](https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc1122471/cN73378); Burnham 1910: 69; [_CCfr_](https://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/ark:/06871/004D30021465); _DGVB_ 204–5; Dubreucq 2017: 135; O'Sullivan 2004: 23–9; Quiggin 1912. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 08-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/221 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/221 22 9 434 Northern Francia Certainly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:28:18.000000Z 221 435 Rheims Possibly 49°15'13.9"N 4°02'02.3"E coordinates for Rheims 49.253861 4.033972 434 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 221 67 BM Valenciennes 2 12 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84526390 222 MS Zanetti Lat. 349 (1830) Whole MS (93 fols) IX med. 825 875 Unknown Orosius, _Historiae adversus paganos_. 1 0 The presence of numerous Old Breton glosses (cf. Thurneysen and Williams 1938: 290–305 and Fleuriot 1960: 175–83) and the widely documented Breton interest in Orosius's _Historiae_ make a Breton origin probable. Moreover, the fact that this Venice MS shares glosses with other Breton copies of Orosius's _Historiae_ (especially [Rome (Città del Vaticano), BAV, Reg.lat.296](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/192)) suggests that its scribe was copying either from an earlier Breton exemplar or from an insular model (cf. Bauer 2019, esp. pp. 100–4). 6975 Bauer 2008: 187–91; Bauer 2019 (_passim_); _DGVB_ 5; Fleuriot 1960: 175–83; Lambert 1988: 213, 215, 218–20; Lambert 2018: 26; Lemoine 1985: 33–7, 289; Lemoine 1994a: 82, 85, 98, 103, 108; _PMSB_ 320 (§121); Schrijver 2011: 10; Smith 1992: 171 (n. 100); Szerwiniack 2007: 171; Thurneysen and Williams 1938: 290–305. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 10-06-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/222 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/222 19 17 436 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:51:00.000000Z 222 68 Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Venice 1 15 223 MS Hardenberg-Sammlung 12a and 14a Fragment (3 half-folios) IX 2/4 826 850 Unknown Isidore, _Etymologiae_ (fragment). 1 0 This MS, which preserves five Old Breton glosses, is one of several _disiecta membra_ from a single codex that contained a copy of Isidore's _Etymologiae_; for further details, see the entry for [Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, MS Memb. I 147](https://ircabritt.nuigalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/52) in the present Handlist. 1424 Fleuriot 1979: 199; Lambert 2018: 40; _PMSB_ 320 (§122). 1 Jacopo Bisagni 27-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/223 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/223 17 31 437 Brittany Probably 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:51:12.000000Z 223 69 Thüringisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Weimar 1 224 MS 12 Sammlung, Nr. 5 Fragment (?) IX 2/2 851 900 Unknown Fragment from a 9th-century Bible (?). 0 0 In Bischoff's _Kat._ (§7432) this MS is assigned to Brittany, but I am not aware of any other description or discussion of it. 7432 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/224 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/224 24 438 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-19T08:51:32.000000Z 224 70 Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv (formerly Staatsarchiv) Wolfenbüttel 3 225 MS M.p.th.f.67 Whole MS (192 fols) VIII ex. / IX in. 776 825 Würzburg Cathedral Library - Aldhelm, _De uirginitate_ (preface only, added sometime in the ninth century in Alemannic minuscule) (1r) - Large drawing of a man holding a stylus and a parchment (possibly an evangelist or Saint Peter?) (1v) - Carpet-page in insular style (2r) - _Probationes pennae_ (2v) - Gospel of Matthew (3r-66v) - Gospel of Mark (66v-100r) - Gospel of Luke (100r-155v) - Small scribal inscription _Vvarinvrit scripsit_ or _Vuuarinurit scripsit_ (138r, lower margin) - Gospel of John (incomplete) (155v-192v). 0 0 Several scholars have tentatively proposed a Breton origin for this early (i.e. late eighth- / early ninth-century) insular-influenced Gospel-book (Fischer's 'Bw'), written entirely in uncial script and presenting a mixture of Vulgate and Old Latin readings. For example, in _CLA_ vol. 9, §1422, we read that this Gospel-book was 'written in a backward scriptorium under Insular influence on the Continent; ornamentation and possibly also syllabification may suggest Britanny'; in Bischoff and Hofman 1952: 12, this MS is indicated as 'vielleicht bretonisch'; finally, McGurk (1987: 176, 189) stated that 'the Würzburg codex was written in a well-established uncial tradition though reflecting some insular practice' (it should moreover be noted that some sections of this MS offer a pure Old Latin Gospel-text, as shown in Houghton 2009). However, Simpson has argued _against_ the ascription to Brittany and rather agrees with Geneviève Micheli in placing its production in Würzburg (Simpson (McKee) 1999: 278–9). In spite of containing what seems to be a Germanic personal name, the tiny scribal inscription on fol. 138r—possibly reading _Vvarinvrit scripsit_ or _Vuuarinurit scripsit_—does not really help us to settle the matter, as it was probably not added by the main scribe anyway (it might rather be a somewhat later _probatio pennae_; cf. Thurn 1984: 53). The question of the origin of this important manuscript is still open and would deserve being investigated in depth. 7500 Bischoff and Hofman 1952: 12, 63, 109; _CLA_ 9, §1422 = [_ELMSS_](https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1931); Houghton 2009; _ILLB_ In29; McGurk 1987: 176, 189; Smith 1992: 167 (n. 81); Simpson (McKee) 1999: 278–9; Thurn 1984: 52–4. 1 Jacopo Bisagni 13-05-2021 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/api/v1/catalogue/225 https://ircabritt.universityofgalway.ie/handlist/catalogue/225 1 21 439 Brittany Possibly 1 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:28:46.000000Z 225 440 Germany Possibly 2 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-05-18T16:28:46.000000Z 225 441 Würzburg Possibly 49°47'36.5"N 9°55'57.3"E coordinates for Würzburg 49.793472 9.932583 440 3 2021-05-07T14:22:03.000000Z 2021-06-01T08:49:29.000000Z 225 71 Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg 3 http://vb.uni-wuerzburg.de/ub/mpthf67/index.html