Volume / Number: 8 / 1197

• Fulda Germany Landesbibliothek Bonifatianus 2

Written at Luxeuil or in a centre under its immediate influence. Ragyndrudis, at whose order apparently it was written, is probably to be identified with ‘Raegenthryth filia Athuolfi’ mentioned in a letter of Archbishop Lull of Mainz (753–86) as a rich patroness of churches, but it is doubtful whether Athuolf should be regarded as the Aodulf named as possessor of our manuscript (cf. fol. 2v). According to tradition, this is the book with which Boniface tried to save himself when he was murdered; at least it shows two violent incisions in the upper and lower margins.

Script is Luxeuil minuscule of the more advanced type, not unlike that of Munich CLM 29338(1 (CLA 9.1328); for details on this type see CLA 5.579; also CLA 6 p. xvi–xvii where other examples are enumerated. Some corrections in Anglo-Saxon minuscule saec. VIII. Numerous Anglo-Saxon vernacular glosses are scratched in. The entry ‘Aodulf annuente dno adquisiui’ in Anglo-Saxon uncial and minuscule saec. VIII is seen on fol. 2v . The important subscription ‘in honore dni nostri ihu xpi ego ragyndrudis ordinaui librum istum’ stands on fol. 143v in French uncial saec. VIII¹.

☛Tewes, Luxeuil No. 3, dates to 720–30. ☛Ganz, Luxeuil: 1 scribe.

• https://fuldig.hs-fulda.de/viewer/object/PPN438486781/1/

• Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
• Origin: Luxeuil—MSS from the school of Luxeuil (Tewes 2011)
• Script: Luxeuil minuscule—Admont-Fulda Group (Ganz 2002)
• Script: MSS with reverse beta ti ligature
• Origin: Burgundia Scripta (Barbet-Massin, Bully, Gasse-Grandjean)