(†) Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ms. 35 + 57

179r-183v, Einhart - Vita Karoli

This Ripoll manuscript, seen and described by Pròsper de Bofarull in 1822 and 1823 respectively, but then finally lost in 1835, was written under Abbot Oliba and is the manuscript mentioned in the Ripoll catalogue of 1047 with its first texts: “Liber bede cum evangeliis II.”, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum S. Mariae Rivipullensis a. 1047, p. 102 no 67 sq. Benet Ribas i Ribas described it under no 57 as “Expositiones Evangeliorum per Bedam” together with other texts (i. a. a Carmen by abbot Oliba), and also Jaime Villanueva and finally Pròsper de Borafull (“Vida de Caroli Magni, que empieza en seguida de la dedicación de Ripoll, continúa después de la de S.n Cucufate y concluye con unos dísticos de Gerardo”). In this manuscript was also transmitted the Vita S. Nicolai by Johannes Diaconus (see there). The manuscript showed the so-called “Widmungsfassung” (original version dedicated to Charlemagne’s son Louis the Pious) and must have been existed before 1018, because Oliba used the dedication verses in his own poem on the counts buried in Ripoll. According to the early modern descriptions the copy showed in the 17th century only ch. 32 sq. and 18–33 – obviously the remaining folia of the once complete, now disordered medieval copy: VILLANUEVA 1821a, p. 306–310 no XXX–XXXII; VILLANUEVA 1821c, p. 36; EWALD 1881, p. 390; BEER 1908, 1, p. 43 sq., 85, 95 sq. and p. 102 no 67 sq.; VALLS Y TABERNER 1931, p. 12 sq. no 0/1, here p. 12; COLL I ALENTORN 1951–1952, p. 195 with n. 168; MARTÍNEZ Y DÍEZ 1969, p. 358–361 no 80; MUNDÓ I MARCET 1988, p. 100; PUIG I FERRETÉ e. a. 1998, p. 95 sq. no 479 and p. 164 no 479; CASTIÑEIRAS Y GONZÁLEZ 1999a, p. 252 with n. 31 and p. 254 n. 31; CASTIÑEIRAS Y GONZÁLEZ 1999b, p. 439; TISCHLER 2001, p. X, LXIX, 37, 44, 336–343, 945 and 1102 (manuscript Ri); JASPERT 2003, p. 129 with n. 30 and p. 140 with n. 67; SUREDA I JUBANY 2014, p. 291 with n. 41; MIRANDA GARCÍA 2015, p. 35 sq, with n. 62 (with the wrong qualification “donde se habría copiado en la primera mitad del siglo XI un fragment de la ‘Vita Karoli’ de Eginardo, cuya correspondencia se deconoce”); DE PUIG I OLIVER 2017–2019b, p. 600 with n. 356 (the text is not mentioned).