Albi, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 42

Settlement
Albi
Repository
Bibliothèque municipale
Shelfmark
Ms. 42 (51)
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-05-28 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Updated content (addition of several manuscript items) and link to the scan, added catalogue reference.
Dating
last third of the 9th c. (after 852)
Place of origin / provenance
Rheims (?)
Successive provenance(s)
Online catalogues
CGM ; Bibale ; Cecilia ; Biblissima
Scans
Scan (colors)
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Albi, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 42', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/albi-bibliotheque_municipale_ms_42.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

1v-7r, Hincmar of Rheims - Capitula I and II, 1-20

Link to digitization: here.
Catalogue général des manuscrits 1849, p. 490 (“IXe siècle”); WERMINGHOFF 1901b , p. 618 (“s. IX.”); ANDRIEU 1931, p. 32 sq.; LESNE 1938, p. 500 with n. 2 (“IXe siècle”); FUHRMANN 1972–1974, 1, p. 201 with n. 23; DEVISSE 1975–1976, 2, p. 872 n. 322; DEVISSE 1975–1976, 3, p. 1153 (“IX”); POKORNY/STRATMANN 1995a, p. 26 (“s. IX4/4 … von zumindest von Reims beeinflußten Händen geschrieben”; with the wrong folio-numbers “fol. 2r–7r”) and 33 (manuscript A); LEMAITRE 1996, p. 52 n. 9; BISCHOFF 1998, p. 11 no 24 (“Nördliches Frankreich (Reimser Umkreis), IX. Jh., 3. Drittel (nach 852)“); KEEFE 2002, 2, p. 8 sq.; POKORNY/LUKAS 2005, p. 85; HARTMANN 2008, p. 81 and 325 (“4/4 9. Jh … Reims (?)”); KEEFE 2012a, p. 202 sq. here p. 203; PÉRICARD 2016, p. 74 n. 7 and p. 77 with n. 25 (with the wrong folio-numbers “2r à 7”); MEYER 2019, p. 27 (“Hincmarus, ‘Constitutiomes synodicae’”)

7r-21v, Theodulf of Orléans - De ordine baptismi ad Magnum Senonensem liber

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Here without the preface and organized in 15 chapters; inc: “Incipiunt capitula cur infans cathecuminus efficitur …”: Catalogue général des manuscrits 1849, p. 490 (“IXe siècle”; the text is not identified); WILMART 1928, p. 286; ANDRIEU 1931, p. 32 sq.; LESNE 1938, p. 500 with n. 2 (“IXe siècle”); DAHLHAUS-BERG 1975, p. 109 sq. with n. 7 and 11 (“Ins späte 9. bzw. frühe 10. Jahrhundert ... zu datieren ... in ihrer Provenienz nur annähernd als südfranzösisch bestimmt werden kann”) and p. 112 with n. 27; BOUHOT 1978, p. 289 n. 50 (“debut du Xe s.”); KEEFE 1983, p. 177, p. 191–193 with n. 4, p. 219 (“s. IX ex., prob. so. Fr.”; manuscript A12, text 16) and 232; POKORNY/STRATMANN 1995a, p. 26 (“s. IX4/4 … von zumindest von Reims beeinflußten Händen geschrieben“); KEEFE 1996; LEMAITRE 1996, p. 52 n. 9; BISCHOFF 1998, p. 11 no 24 (“Nördliches Frankreich (Reimser Umkreis), IX. Jh., 3. Drittel (nach 852)“); KEEFE 2002, 2, p. 8 sq. and p. 288–292 no 16; KEEFE 2012a, p. 70 no 24, p. 162 no 289 and p. 202 sq. here p. 203; MEYER 2019, p. 27 (the text is not mentioned); TIGNOLET 2023, p. 38 and p. 131 n. 77 (“IXe siècle”). Digitization: https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/2796/canvas/canvas-705921/view.

21v-23v, Almann of Hautvillers - Epistola ad Sigebodum Narbonensis provinciae archiepiscopum

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Codex unicus: Catalogue général des manuscrits 1849, p. 490 (“IXe siècle”; “Archiepiscopo Narbonensi Sigeberdo Almarici monachi et presbyteri responsio ad diversas questiones de baptismo”); WILMART 1928; ANDRIEU 1931, p. 32 sq.; LESNE 1938, p. 500 with n. 2 (“IXe siècle”); JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1994, p. 104 (“IXe”); POKORNY/STRATMANN 1995a, p. 26 (“s. IX4/4“ … von zumindest von Reims beeinflußten Händen geschrieben); LEMAITRE 1996, p. 52 n. 9; BISCHOFF 1998, p. 11 no 24 (“Nördliches Frankreich (Reimser Umkreis), IX. Jh., 3. Drittel (nach 852)“); KEEFE 2002, 2, p. 8 sq.; KEEFE 2012a, p. 202 sq. here p. 203; MEYER 2019, p. 27 (“Almannus, ‘Responsio de baptismo’”).

23v-42v, Almann of Hautvillers - De sex luminibus ex utraque parte ecclesiae accensis

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Codex unicus. The text is mutilated at the end due to the loss of 4 folios: Catalogue général des manuscrits 1849, p. 490 (“IXe siècle”; “Archiepiscopo Narbonensi Sigeberdo Almarici monachi et presbyteri responsio ad diversas questiones de baptismo”); WILMART 1928; ANDRIEU 1931, p. 32 sq.; LESNE 1938, p. 500 with n. 2 (“IXe siècle”); JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1994, p. 104 (“IXe”); POKORNY/STRATMANN 1995a, p. 26 ("s. IX4/4 … von zumindest von Reims beeinflußten Händen geschrieben"); LEMAITRE 1996, p. 52 n. 9; BISCHOFF 1998, p. 11 no 24 (“Nördliches Frankreich (Reimser Umkreis), IX. Jh., 3. Drittel (nach 852)“); KEEFE 2002, 2, p. 8 sq.; KEEFE 2012a, p. 202 sq. here p. 203; MEYER 2019, p. 27 (“Almannus, ‘Responsio de baptismo’”).