London, British Library, Ms. Add. 16979

Settlement
London
Repository
British Library
Shelfmark
Ms. Add. 16979
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-05-06 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Revised and updated content.
2025-08-20 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Revised and updated content.
Dating
1129
Place of origin / provenance
Saint-Gilles-du-Gard
Successive provenance(s)
Online catalogues
British Library
Scans
Scan (colors)
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Matthias M. Tischler, 'London, British Library, Ms. Add. 16979', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/london_british_library_ms_add_16979.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

21v-62r, Sine Auctore - Regula S. Benedicti

At the end of the text stands on fol. 62r the following colophon: “AD HONOREM SANCTI EGIDII PETRUS GUILELMUS FECIT HUNC LIBRUM IN TEMPORE DOMNI PETRI ABBATIS ANNO INCARNATI VERBI MO CO XXO VIIIIO REGNANTE LODOICO REGE”. This manuscript was originally part of the “liber capituli” of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard together with the Martyrology of Usuard of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, today London, British Library, Add. 16918 (see there). The manuscript was in the 17th/18th century in the Convent of the Dominican friars of Chambéry and was sold by Payne et Foss on June 12, 1847: Gallia christiana 1739, col. 710 sq.; MARCHEGAY 1854, p. 120 sq. no VII; Catalogue of additions 1864, p. 336; DEVIC/VAISSÈTE 1875b, col. 37 with n. 2; BOND e. a. 1873–1883, 1, pl. 62 (fol. 21r); MOLINIER 1890, p. 276 no 620; GIRY 1872–1910, 3, no 350 (fol. 62v/63r); JONES 1914, p. 56 with n. 2; SCHAPIRO 1935, p. 416 and fig. 12 and 21 (fol. 62r and 21v); DAVID 1939, p. 217; BILLANOVICH 1958, p. 109 with n. 2; THOMSON 1969, pl. 2 (fol. 34r); HOHLER 1972, p. 53 with n. 95; DUFOUR 1976, p. 252 with n. 48 and pl. IV, 2 (fol. 63r); Colophons de manuscrits 1979, p. 92 no 15570; WATSON 1979, 1, p. 48 sq. no 174; LEMAITRE 1980–2020, 2, p. 1307 sq. no 3071; WINZER 1988, p. 97–106, here p. 97 with n. 3, p. 99 and p. 102 sq. with n. 2, and p. 107, 110 sq., 113 and 115–117; LEMAITRE 1993, p. 74 (the text is not mentioned); CAHN 1996, 1, fig. 102 (fol. 21v, detail); CAHN 1996, 2, p. 62 sq. no 51; LEMAITRE 1996, p. 57 n. 81; TISCHLER 2001, p. 324 n. 307; JOTISCHKY 2002, p. 332 with n. 2 and p. 339 n. 2; LEMAITRE 2002, p. 70; FAVIER/DUFOUR 2005, p. 604 with n. 2 (the text is not mentioned); MAZEL 2005, p. 342 with n. 15; GIRAULT e. a. 2007, p. 214; VIRCILLO FRANKLIN 2013, p. 78 n. 24. A new description and digitization: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058595676.0x000001.