Volume / Number: 6 / 835

• Strasbourg France Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire Lat. without number

Written at Strasbourg by order of Bishop Rachio in 788 for St Mary's Church of that city, according to the long inscription on fol. 2: ‘…in ann DCCLXXXUIII…et in anno XUIII regnante domno…Karolo rege…ego itaque Rachio…episcopes Argentoratinsis urbis in anno V episcopatus mei…in amore Dei et sancte Mariae Argentoratinsis urbis eclesie hec libro canonum…scribere iussi.’ In the late-sixteenth century the manuscript came into the possession of Jacques Bongars (†1612) who bequeathed his collection to the city of Bern. The Counsel of Bern, at the request of the Cardinal de Rohan, restored the manuscript to Strasbourg in 1774. Perished in the siege of Strasbourg on August 24/25, 1870.

Script is early Caroline minuscule: a has two forms; ligature ni occurs at line-end.