Volume / Number: 5 / 664

CLA	664
Shelfmarks	Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 14086
Script	Uncial, Half-Uncial, and Cursive Minuscule
Date	VIII¹ (701 - 750)
Origin and Provenance	Written in France, the precise centre still to be determined, but evidence furnished by the saints in the Martyrology points to the small monastery of Moutiers-Saint Jean at Langres. Provenance Corbie: the manuscript is mentioned in the second Corbie catalogue saec. XII (MS Phillipps 1865, now Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Phill. 1865) under the title ‘Martyrologium. Vitae Patrum’. The same title is seen on fol. 6 of the present manuscript. Later at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where it bore the number ‘1311, olim 264’.
CLA Vol.	5
TM Number	TM 66832
Support	Parchment
Contents	Martyrologium Luxoviense; Isidorus, Synonyma; Excerpta Patrum: Ps- Johannes Chrysostomus, De Eleemosyna; Ps- Augustinus, Sermones (252); Gregorius Magnus, Homiliae (De evangeliis); Caesarius Arelatensis, Homiliae (16, 56, 187, 199).
Script Commentary	Script is chiefly half-uncial: F, G, and N have the uncial form. The calendar (foll. 1–5) is in uncial here and there mixed with half-uncial, or dropping into half-uncial altogether: the dotted y with both branches curving to the right occurs. Foll. 49–50 and 107v–118 are by different Merovingian cursive hands: closed a is the rule, suprascript a also occurs; b occasionally has a tag to the right; the bow of d as well as q is often open; l occasionally sweeps below the line; the bows of o intersect above the line and sometimes have a tag to the right; in the ri ligature, i sweeps to the right; numerous ligatures with ꞇ; ti ligature used for both hard and soft sounds. A less cursive hand, writing over erased Merovingian, is seen on foll. 111v, 112, 113v–114. The first line of fol. 6 and the initial were erased and rewritten by a Maurdramnus hand saec. VIII–IX (cf. CLA 5.613).
Notes	☛Mabillon, De re diplomatica, p. 360 and pl. IX. 1; Nouveau Traité, III, pp. 112, 215–6, 225, 247, 434 and pl. XXXIX. 5. 3; XLVI. 3. 1. 3, 3. 2. 1; XLVII. 5. 2. 3; XLVIII. 3. 6; LVIII. 3. 4. 2. 1. ☛Tewes, Luxueil No. 30 (MSS with other close relationships to Luxeuil).
Facsimile URL	http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105110031
Collections	Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017) Text: MSS containing exegetical works Provenance: Corbie library—alien MSS present by ca 700 (Ganz 1990) Origin: Luxeuil—MSS from the school of Luxeuil (Tewes 2011) Provenance: Corbie library—MSS from Corbie (Zechiel-Eckes) Script: MSS illustrated in De re diplomatica Script: MSS with reverse beta ti ligature Origin: Burgundia Scripta (Barbet-Massin, Bully, Gasse-Grandjean)
Last modified	15 September 2022