Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Ms. 569

Settlement
Barcelona
Repository
Biblioteca de Catalunya
Shelfmark
Ms. 569 (olim Barcelona, Biblioteca Dalmases, Ms. 23)
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-04-15 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Updated and personally revised content, added a few image links and encoding corrections.
Dating
1st half of the 14th c.
Place of origin / provenance
Catalonia
Successive provenance(s)
Biblioteca Dalmases (Barcelona), 17th - early 19th c.
Online catalogues
Explora (BC)
Scans
Scan (colors)
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Ms. 569', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/barcelona_biblioteca_de_catalunya_ms_0569.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

57ra-88v, Dhuoda - Libellus manualis

Link to digitization: here.
This is the only complete medieval manuscript of the work. The manuscript was in possession of Pau Ignasi de Dalmases i Ros (1670–1718) and came in 1916 with the collection of this noble Barcelona family (bearing there the shelfmark “23”) to the Biblioteca de Catalunya: D’ALÒS I MONER 1916, p. 41 (“WIELMUS (?) ‘Liber manualis duodene’ … Segle XIVê”); CORDOLIANI 1950, p. 122 sq., here p. 122; VERNET 1956, p. 22–44; Guía de la Biblioteca Central 1959, p. 75 (“S. XIV”); RICHÉ 1963, p. 89 n. 9 sq.; BOWERS 1973; Colophons de manuscrits 1979, p. 529 no 18822; ANTONY 1981a, p. 775–780 (“frühes 14. Jh.”; manuscript B); ANTONY 1981b; LÖFSTEDT 1981; DRONKE 1984, p. 290 n. 8 sq. and 11, p. 291 n. 14 sq., 17–19, 25 and 29 and p. 292 n. 30, 35, 38–40, 47 and 50 (manuscript Ba); VAN ACKER 1986; RICHÉ e. a. 1991, p. 9, 39 sq., 46–50 and 52–59 (“première moitié du XIVe siècle”; manuscript B); JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1994, p. 294 sq. (“XIVe”); MUNDÓ I MARCET 1994, p. 144 (“segle XIV”); THIÉBAUX 1998, p. 38 sq.; SEDLMEIER 2000, p. 373 sq.; BLACK 2002, p. 39 and 44; CHIESA 2005, p. 160 and 162 sq. (manuscript B); CHANDLER 2010, p. 265 sq., 272–274, p. 275 with n. 45, p. 276, 283, 288 and 290; BOOKER 2016, p. 182 sq. with n. 7;, p. 184 sq., p. 188 with n. 26, p. 189 with n. 27, p. 190, p. 192 n. 36, p. 194 with n. 39–43, p. 195 with n. 44, p. 196 with n. 49, p. 197–199, p. 201 with n. 59, p. 202 sq. and 210–213; CHANDLER 2019, p. 276; ALTURO I PERUCHO 2020a, p. 95 (“copiat a la Cartoixa [sc. “de Montalegre”] al segle XIV”); CZOCK 2020: New description: https://explora.bnc.cat/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991014341269706717&vid=34CSUC_BC:VU1. Digitzation (fol. 57v): https://catcar.iec.cat/?p=1934. Digitization: https://mdc.csuc.cat/digital/collection/manuscritBC/id/296656/rec/1.

88vb-99rb, Alcuin - Liber de virtutibus et vitiis

Link to digitization: here.
Here dedicated to Charlemagne (“Incipit Alchuini liber abbatis ad Karolum regem glossissimum [!] directus”). The manuscript was in possession of Pau Ignasi de Dalmases i Ros (1670–1718) and came in 1916 with the collection of this noble Barcelona family (bearing there the shelfmark “23”) to the Biblioteca de Catalunya: D’ALÒS I MONER 1916, p. 41 (“ALCUÍ, ‘Liber de diversis virtutibus’ … Segle XIVê”); CORDOLIANI 1950, p. 122 sq., here p. 122; VERNET 1956, p. 22 sq.; Guía de la Biblioteca Central 1959, p. 75 (“S. XIV”); BOWERS 1973; ANTONY 1981b; LÖFSTEDT 1981; VAN ACKER 1986; RICHÉ e. a. 1991, p. 49; MUNDÓ I MARCET 1994, p. 144 (“segle XIV”); THIÉBAUX 1998, p. 38 sq.; SEDLMEIER 2000, p. 373 sq.; BLACK 2002, p. 39 and 44; CHIESA 2005, p. 160 and 162 sq. (manuscript B); CHANDLER 2010, p. 265 sq., 272–274, p. 275 with n. 45, p. 276, 283, 288 and 290; BOOKER 2016, p. 182 sq. with n. 7;, p. 184 sq., p. 188 with n. 26, p. 189 with n. 27, p. 190, p. 192 n. 36, p. 194 with n. 39–43, p. 195 with n. 44, p. 196 with n. 49, p. 197–199, p. 201 with n. 59, p. 202 sq. and 210–213; CHANDLER 2019, p. 276; ALTURO I PERUCHO 2020a, p. 95 (“copiat a la Cartoixa [sc. “de Montalegre”] al segle XIV”); CZOCK 2020. The manuscript is not mentioned by SZARMACH 1981; SZARMACH 1989; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 154–157; BULLOUGH 2004, p. 23 with n. 51. New description: https://explora.bnc.cat/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991014341269706717&vid=34CSUC_BC:VU1. Digitization: https://mdc.csuc.cat/digital/collection/manuscritBC/id/296656/rec/1.