Girona, Museu Diocesà, Ms. 273

7r-96v, Usuard of Saint-Germain-des-Prés - Martyrologium

This manuscript has a complicated history of often changing possessors: In the early 17th century, the manuscript belonged to the Hungarian noble and scholar István Radeczky. Later it belonged to the collection of Archbishop Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein and then probably to Queen Christina of Sweden who possessed great parts of the latter’s library after the spoil of Nikolsburg by Swedish troops in 1645. Since 1655, Christina stayed in Rome, so that Pere Antoni d’Aragó, then Viceking of Naples, could purchase it in Italy. In 1678, the manuscript came as part of a Pere’s large book donation to Poblet. After the abbey’s amortisation in 1835, the manuscript was stored in the monastery of Cadins (Salt-Girona) and found in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its way to Girona (first in possession of Josep Cartanyà i Inglés, Bishop of Girona, then in the Museu Diocesà): CORMINAS 1849, p. 298 and 351; VILLANUEVA 1851d, p. 152 sq.; BEER 1894, p. 407 sq. no 382 with n. 1; CUNILL Y FONTFREDA 1912–1914, p. 51 with n. 6; DUBOIS 1965; SUCKALE 1987, S. 98; ALTISENT I ALTISENT 1995, p. 113; MASOLIVER I MASOLIVER 1995, p. 389; ROURA I GÜIBAS 1997; Martirologio de Usuardo 1998; PUIG I FERRETÉ e. a. 1998, p. 92 no 455 and p. 163 no 455 (with the wrong identification with Tarragona, Biblioteca pública, Ms. 106); ALTURO I PERUCHO e. a. 2003, p. 239 n. 33 [ANSCARI MANUEL MUNDÓ I MARCET]; ROURA I GÜIBAS 2004, p. 66; ALTISENT I ALTISENT 2014, p. 600–602 with n. 45 and p. 672. The manuscript is not mentioned by QUENTIN 1908, p. 675–677.