Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 31

Settlement
Berlin
Repository
Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Shelfmark
Hamilton 31
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-04-16 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Updated and personally revised content, added a few links and encoding corrections.
Dating
ca. middle of the 9th c.
Place of origin / provenance
probably central France (Bourges?) for (?) Albi Cathedral
Successive provenance(s)
Cathedral chapter of Albi
Online catalogues
BOSE 1966
Scans
Microfilm of some selected leaves
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Hamilton 31', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/berlin_staatsbibliothek_preussischer_kulturbesitz_hamilton_31.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

1ra-87vb, Sine Auctore - Institutio canonicorum Aquisgranensis a. 816

Link to digitization: here.
On fol. Ir from a 18th-century hand: “Ex Libris Venerabilis Capituli Ecclesiae Albiensis” (the same as in Albi, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 37 (60), fol. Ir). The manuscript was at the beginning of the 19th century probably in the possession of Nicholas MacCarthy Reagh, a book collector in Toulouse: Catalogue of the magnificent collection of manuscripts from Hamilton Palace 1882, p. 6 no 31 (“saec. IX”); WATTENBACH 1883, p. 330; HINSCHIUS 1884, p. 238 sq; WERMINGHOFF 1899, p. 481 (“s. IX.”); WERMINGHOFF 1902a, p. 618 (“saec. IX.”) and p. 638 with n. 1; WERMINGHOFF 1906, p. 310 no 6 (“antea capituli Albensis … saec. IX”) and p. 311 sq.; LINDSAY 1915, p. 446 (“saec. IX”); LESNE 1938, p. 500 with n. 2; BOSE 1966, p. 15 sq.; SCHIEFFER 1976, p. 250 n. 106; MORDEK 1995a, p. 1046 (“einst Teil des verschollenen Albigensis 36?”); BISCHOFF 1998, p. 73 no 350 (“Wohl mittleres Frankreich, IX. Jh., ca. Mitte”); FINGERNAGEL 1999, 1, p. 59 sq. no 58 (“Frankreich, 9. Jh, 1. Hälfte (nach 816)”); FINGERNAGEL 1999, 2, p. 98 fig. 163–166 (fol. 26v, 31r, 37r and 76v, details); SCHMITZ 2007, p. 516 with n. 100 and p. 523 n. 132; PÉRICARD 2016, p. 75 with n. 11. Partial digitization: https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj00022956?part=3. Digitization: https://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0003927300000000.