London, British Library, Ms. Harley 5251

1r-93v, Pseudo-Fredegarius - Chronicon

Link to digitization: here.
Here the ‘pre-Carolingian’ version which goes up to Book IV 9 with an immediate break off within a sentence. Previous research has seen in it a product of probably north-eastern France which was soon after stored in Aquitaine (because of some Aquitaine neumes on fol. 35v; see also the later marginal reading note on the king of the Visigoths in Toulouse on fol. 55v). Recent research, however, has shown that we have here rather an early southern copy which was the model for Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 318, written in region of Rheims in the second quarter of the 9th century. If this is true, this would betray early targeted research for pre-Carolingian history in a Septimanian or at least south-western religious house which stood in connection with Rheims: WANLEY e. a. 1759–1763, 2, s. v. (“IX”); NARES e. a. 1808–1812, 3, p. 255 col. b; PERTZ 1839a, p. 254 sq. (manuscript 2b); KRUSCH 1882, p. 270–273 (manuscript 2b); THOMPSON/WARNER 1884, p. 84 sq. (“Late 9th Century”) and pl. 52 (fol. 61v); KRUSCH 1888, p. 10 and 14 sq. (manuscript 2b); KÖHLER 1912, p. 58 col. b; SIEGMUND 1949, p. 89 (“s. IX”); WALLACE-HADRILL 1960, p. L (“late 9th century, French”); LAMBERT 1969b, p. 37 no 203 (“s. IX”); COLLINS 1996, p. 122 sq. with n. 120 (“West Frankish scriptorium”); BISCHOFF 2004, p. 123 no 2487 (“Südliches Frankreich (?), IX./X. Jh.”); COLLINS 2007, p. XIV, 63–65 and p. 77 sq. with n. 207 (manuscript L4); REIMITZ 2015, p. 238 with n. 306. New description and digitization: https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056057761.0x000001.