Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 556

Settlement
Città del Vaticano
Repository
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Shelfmark
Barb. lat. 556
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Víctor Portella Pahissa
Revisions
2025-05-12 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Created entry.
Dating
11th/12th c.
Place of origin / provenance
Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
Successive provenance(s)
Online catalogues
Scans
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 556', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/citta_del_vaticano-biblioteca_apostolica_vaticana_barb_lat_556.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

1v-1v, Hrabanus Maurus - De laudibus sanctae crucis

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Here excerpts from book II. The manuscript was sent on December 10, 1635 through his agent Joseph Maria Suarez SJ, who was active in Avignon, to the manuscript collection of the Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597–1679): MÜLLER 1973, p. 37 (“12. Jht.?”) and 182; KOTTJE 2012, p. 197 sq. no 1123 (“exc. l. II”) and p. 258. Digitization: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.556.

2r-20v, Hrabanus Maurus - Homiliae de festis

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Here Homiliae XXXV–XLIX. The manuscript was sent on December 10, 1635 through his agent Joseph Maria Suarez SJ, who was active in Avignon, to the manuscript collection of the Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597–1679): BARRÉ 1962, p. 14 n. 48 (“XIIe s. … 15 hom.”); HALLINGER 1974, p. 64 (the manuscript is not identified); ÉTAIX 1986, p. 126; KOTTJE 2012, p. 197 sq. no 1123 and p. 256; GALLE 2023, p. 448 (“XI/XII … Avignon, Saint-André … OSB”). Digitization: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.556.

21r-47v, Alcuin - De fide sanctae et individuae Trinitatis

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Here Books I–III. This could be the copy mentioned in the abbey’s library catalogue from before 1307 (see there) . The manuscript was sent on December 10, 1635 through his agent Joseph Maria Suarez SJ, who was active in Avignon, to the manuscript collection of the Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597–1679): JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 137 (“XIIe”; “lib. 1–3”); SZARMACH 1999, p. 407 (“XII”); KNIBBS/MATTER 2012. The manuscript is not mentioned by MATTER 1996; MATTER 2010. Digitization: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.556.

47v-54v, Alcuin - De animae ratione liber ad Eulaliam virginem and Carmen LXXXV

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This could be the copy mentioned in the abbey’s library catalogue from before 1307 (see there). The manuscript was sent on December 10, 1635 through his agent Joseph Maria Suarez SJ, who was active in Avignon, to the manuscript collection of the Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597–1679): JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 123 (“XIIe”; with the wrong folio-numbers “47v–55v”); SZARMACH 1999, p. 407 (“XII”; with the wrong folio-numbers “47v–55v”); KNIBBS/MATTER 2012. The manuscript is not mentioned by MATTER 1996; MATTER 2010. Digitization: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.556.

54v-68v, Paschasius Radbertus - Cogitis me

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Here at the end mutilated; expl.: “… Omnis ergo gloria vestra abintus sit . Et intus habete ! quod foras luceat ne forte inter has”. This could be the copy mentioned in the abbey’s library catalogue from before 1307 (see there). The manuscript was sent on December 10, 1635 through his agent Joseph Maria Suarez SJ, who was active in Avignon, to the manuscript collection of the Cardinal Francesco Barberini (1597–1679): The manuscript is not mentioned by LAMBOT 1934; RIPBERGER 1962; RIPBERGER 1985, p. 99–105 and 108. Digitization: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.556.