London, British Library, Ms. Harley 4980

Settlement
London
Repository
British Library
Shelfmark
Ms. Harley 4980
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-05-07 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Revised and updated content and encoding.
2025-05-12 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Revised and updated content.
Dating
1st quarter of the 9th c.
Place of origin / provenance
Region of Tours
Successive provenance(s)
Carcassonne Cathedral
Online catalogues
British Library
Scans
Scan (colors)
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'London, British Library, Ms. Harley 4980', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/london_british_library_ms_harley_4980.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

76v-126r, Alcuin - De fide sanctae et individuae Trinitatis

Link to digitization: here.
Here heavily contaminated; the text is not classified so far. The manuscript shows on fol. 3r the thirteenth-century exlibris of Carcassonne Cathedral: “Iste liber est ecclesie sancti Nazarij Carcassonensis . Quicumque eum furatus fuerit vel alienaverit vel hunc titulum deleverit . anathema sit”: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum ecclesiae S. Nazarii Carcassonae, p. 1352 col. b l. 1; NARES e. a. 1808–1812, 3, p. 235 col. a (“X. ... Codex antiquus certe, sed ultra sæculum decimum vix rejiciendus”); THOMPSON/WARNER 1884, p. 52; KÖHLER 1912, p. 58 col. b; WILMART 1930, p. 271 with n. 1 and 3 (“820–830”); LAISTNER 1936, p. 133 and 137 (“not later than 820, and possibly a little earlier”); MUNDÓ I MARCET 1956, p. 180 (“s. IX in.”); WRIGHT 1972, p. 96 (wrongly “Owned, in the 14th cent.”) and 451; SALMON 1976, p. 227 (“s. X”); MATTER 1996, p. 147 and 151 (“Carcassone [!], IX”); JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 136; SZARMACH 1999, p. 404 (“IX”); BISCHOFF 2004, p. 122 no 2486 (“Wohl Umkreis von Tours, IX. Jh. 1. Viertel”); GANZ 2010, p. 186 sq.; MATTER 2010, p. 96 sq. and 105 (“c. 9 (second quarter) southern Francia”; manuscript L); KNIBBS/MATTER 2012, p. XXVI (manuscript L). New description and digitization: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059910360.0x000001.

126v-131r, Alcuin - De Trinitate ad Fredegisum quaestiones XXVIII

Link to digitization: here.
Here heavily contaminated; the text is not classified so far. The manuscript shows on fol. 3r the thirteenth-century exlibris of Carcassonne Cathedral: “Iste liber est ecclesie sancti Nazarij Carcassonensis . Quicumque eum furatus fuerit vel alienaverit vel hunc titulum deleverit . anathema sit”: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum ecclesiae S. Nazarii Carcassonae, p. 1352 col. b l. 1; NARES e. a. 1808–1812, 3, p. 235 col. a (“X. ... Codex antiquus certe, sed ultra sæculum decimum vix rejiciendus”); THOMPSON/WARNER 1884, p. 52; KÖHLER 1912, p. 58 col. b; WILMART 1930, p. 271 with n. 1 and 3 (“820–830”); LAISTNER 1936, p. 133 and 137 (“not later than 820, and possibly a little earlier”); MUNDÓ I MARCET 1956, p. 180 (“s. IX in.”); WRIGHT 1972, p. 96 (wrongly “Owned, in the 14th cent.”) and 451; SALMON 1976, p. 227 (“s. X”); MATTER 1996, p. 147 and 151 (“Carcassone [!], IX”); JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 151; SZARMACH 1999, p. 404 (“IX”); BISCHOFF 2004, p. 122 no 2486 (“Wohl Umkreis von Tours, IX. Jh. 1. Viertel”); GANZ 2010, p. 187; MATTER 2010, p. 96 sq. and 105 (“c. 9 (second quarter) southern Francia”; manuscript L); KNIBBS/MATTER 2012, p. XXVI (manuscript L). New description and digitization: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059910360.0x000001.

131v-143v, Alcuin - De animae ratione liber ad Eulaliam virginem and Carmen LXXXV

Link to digitization: here.
Here heavily contaminated and with incomplete litany; the text is not classified so far. The manuscript shows on fol. 3r the thirteenth-century exlibris of Carcassonne Cathedral: “Iste liber est ecclesie sancti Nazarij Carcassonensis . Quicumque eum furatus fuerit vel alienaverit vel hunc titulum deleverit . anathema sit”: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum ecclesiae S. Nazarii Carcassonae, p. 1352 col. b l. 1; NARES e. a. 1808–1812, 3, p. 235 col. a (“X. ... Codex antiquus certe, sed ultra sæculum decimum vix rejiciendus”); THOMPSON/WARNER 1884, p. 52; DÜMMLER 1895a, p. 473 (“saec. IX”); KÖHLER 1912, p. 58 col. b; WILMART 1930, p. 271 with n. 1 and 3 (“820–830”); LAISTNER 1936, p. 133 with n. 2 and p. 137 (“not later than 820, and possibly a little earlier”); MUNDÓ I MARCET 1956, p. 180 (“s. IX in.”); WRIGHT 1972, p. 96 (wrongly “Owned, in the 14th cent.”) and 451; SALMON 1976, p. 227 (“s. X”); MATTER 1996, p. 147 and 151 (“Carcassone [!], IX”); JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 122; SZARMACH 1999, p. 399 (“ninth century … continental”) and 404 (“IX”); BISCHOFF 2004, p. 122 no 2486 (“Wohl Umkreis von Tours, IX. Jh. 1. Viertel”); GANZ 2010, p. 187; MATTER 2010, p. 96 sq. and 105 (“c. 9 (second quarter) southern Francia”; manuscript L); KNIBBS/MATTER 2012, p. XXVI (manuscript L). New description and digitization: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059910360.0x000001.