Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Ms. 9605 (olim Ms. Ee. 40)

Settlement
Madrid
Repository
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Shelfmark
Ms. 9605 (olim Olim Ms. Ee. 40)
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Víctor Portella
Revisions
2025-05-22 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Entry created.
Dating
1026
Place of origin / provenance
Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
Successive provenance(s)
Online catalogues
Scans
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Ms. 9605 (olim Ms. Ee. 40)', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/madrid-biblioteca_nacional_de_espana_ms_9605.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

1r-10v, Helpericus of Auxerre - Liber de computo

Here with the dedication letter to Asper. The Hispano-Catalano-Septimanian calendar has on fol. 34v (on August 1st) an addition which is missing in Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1530 (see there) and Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1855 (see there): “verzellis . S eusebii . S. felicis . Gironensis”. This shows an individual relationship to S. Eusebio in Vercelli and Sant Feliu de Girona of the owner of this manuscript (person or institution). However, the cult horizon of the calendar is strongly adapted to saints in Septimania and Provence, whereby in the latter region the references to Avignon are striking. Furthermore, the “felix adalax comitissa” mentioned as dead in the colophon on fol. 117vb under the year 1026 is the Countess Adelaida-Blanche of Anjou (ca. 950 – 1026), who probably died in Avignon and is buried in Montmajour near Arles. The manuscript was bought with the money from the dotation for manuscript and book purchase made by the Jesuit Joachim Faucher, as one can see from the printed commemorative paper label on the inner plate of the book-cover: “EX FUNDATIONE R. P. Ioachimi Faucher Bolennensis Societatis Iesu, ab Anno 1644.” It then came into the collection of Antoine Calvet († 1694), judge in Avignon, where it was used in 1680 by the Maurist Claude Estiennot for a partial collation, a description and a transcription, preserved in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 12771, p. 7–18 and 139–151. The manuscript was then sold by his son Michel-Antoine Calvet via the librarian M. Giroud in Avignon for the collection of Pierre-François Pertuis († before 1722), archdeacon and vicar general of this city, and came in 1730, with the help of François-Maurice de Gonteri († 1742), archbishop of Avignon, into the city’s Jesuits’ College library, where it was stored until the dissolution of the Jesuit order in July/August 1768. The Benedictines of Saint-Martial in Avignon administered this library in February 1769, but their plan to create a public library, could not be realized so that the manuscript ended up, after the purchase by a “Sieur Fréchiers, rue de la Grande-Carreteris” on 14 July 1769, in the collection of the Marquis de Cambis-Velleron († 1772) in Avignon, before it was sold via the agent Taoul to the Royal Library at Madrid between 1773 and 1783: MABILLON 1707, p. 322 sq. no XCV; Courrier d’Avignon 1769, p. 208; Catalogue raisonné 1770, p. 570–636 no CLXXIII; PERTZ 1843b, p. 781; EWALD 1881, p. 302 sq.; TRAUBE 1893, p. 38; BOULAND 1895; CHOSSAT 1896, p. 495 with n. 1; BESSE 1909, p. 230 with n. 2 and p. 231; DOMÍNGUEZ Y BORDONA 1933, 1, p. 287 no 662 (“S. XII”); DE MANTEYER 1939, p. 150–238; CORDOLIANI 1942, p. 63 (“XIe s.”); CORDOLIANI 1955a; CORDOLIANI 1955b, p. 194; Colophons de manuscrits 1965, p. 177 no 1432; FERRARI 1973, p. 304 with n. 1; EASTWOOD 1983; ÉTAIX 1983, p. 87 no 173; RUBIO Y FERNÁNDEZ 1984, p. 348 sq. no 415; LAURANSON-ROSAZ 1991, p. 108 fig. 3 (fol. 117va/vb, lower part) and p. 109 n. 44; TESSIER 1994; BELLAGENTE 1999, p. 239; Inventario general de manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional 2000, p. 82 sq. (with the wrong date “S. XII”); BORST 2001, 1, p. 272–274, here p. 273 (p. 272: “wohl in der Provence angelegt, jedenfalls 1026 … Avignon”); DE FORBIN 2001, p. 145 and 147; GARCÍA Y AVILÉS 2001, p. 205; BORST 2006, 1, p. 249 sq., here p. 249 (“von mehreren Händen im Jahr 1026 angelegt, wohl in der Provence. Als Schreiber stellte sich am Ende ein Mönch Arnulfus vor, der vielleicht in Avignon lebte”; manuscript Mc); JULLIEN 2010, p. 426; Luces del norte 2021, p. 44–48 no 2 with fig. (fol. 89v/90r, 92v, 94/95r and 57r, detail), here p. 46 (“Possiblemente oeste de Francia o Aviñón, 1026”); WALLIS 2021; DENOËL. Digitization: http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000054177.

17vb-18ra, olim 32vb-33ra, Sine Auctore - Versus Turonenses

Link to digitization: here.
Here the third version (according to Arno Borst). The Hispano-Catalano-Septimanian calendar has on fol. 34v (on August 1st) an addition which is missing in Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1530 (see there) and Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1855 (see there): “verzellis . S eusebii . S. felicis . Gironensis”. This shows an individual relationship to S. Eusebio in Vercelli and Sant Feliu de Girona of the owner of this manuscript (person or institution). However, the cult horizon of the calendar is strongly adapted to saints in Septimania and Provence, whereby in the latter region the references to Avignon are striking. Furthermore, the “felix adalax comitissa” mentioned as dead in the colophon on fol. 117vb under the year 1026 is the Countess Adelaida-Blanche of Anjou (ca. 950 – 1026), who probably died in Avignon and is buried in Montmajour near Arles. The manuscript was bought with the money from the dotation for manuscript and book purchase made by the Jesuit Joachim Faucher, as one can see from the printed commemorative paper label on the inner plate of the book-cover: “EX FUNDATIONE R. P. Ioachimi Faucher Bolennensis Societatis Iesu, ab Anno 1644.” It then came into the collection of Antoine Calvet († 1694), judge in Avignon, where it was used in 1680 by the Maurist Claude Estiennot for a partial collation, a description and a transcription, preserved in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 12771, p. 7–18 and 139–151. The manuscript was then sold by his son Michel-Antoine Calvet via the librarian M. Giroud in Avignon for the collection of Pierre-François Pertuis († before 1722), archdeacon and vicar general of this city, and came in 1730, with the help of François-Maurice de Gonteri († 1742), archbishop of Avignon, into the city’s Jesuits’ College library, where it was stored until the dissolution of the Jesuit order in July/August 1768. The Benedictines of Saint-Martial in Avignon administered this library in February 1769, but their plan to create a public library, could not be realized so that the manuscript ended up, after the purchase by a “Sieur Fréchiers, rue de la Grande-Carreteris” on 14 July 1769, in the collection of the Marquis de Cambis-Velleron († 1772) in Avignon, before it was sold via the agent Taoul to the Royal Library at Madrid between 1773 and 1783: MABILLON 1707, p. 322 sq. no XCV; Courrier d’Avignon 1769, p. 208; Catalogue raisonné 1770, p. 570–636 no CLXXIII; PERTZ 1843b, p. 781; EWALD 1881, p. 302 sq. (“versus Bede presbiteri de XII. mensibus”); LOEWE/VON HARTEL 1887, p. 399 (“s. XI.”); BOULAND 1895; CHOSSAT 1896, p. 495 with n. 1; BESSE 1909 (the text is not mentioned); DOMÍNGUEZ Y BORDONA 1933, 1, p. 287 no 662 (“S. XII”); DE MANTEYER 1939, p. 150–238; CORDOLIANI 1955a; CORDOLIANI 1955b, p. 194; CORDOLIANI 1960–1961, p. 109; THORNDYKE/KIBRE 1963, p. 46; Colophons de manuscrits 1965, p. 177 no 1432; CORDOLIANI 1966a, p. 76; CORDOLIANI 1966b, p. 58; WALTHER 1969, p. 65 no 1271; SCHALLER/KÖNSGEN 1977, p. 41 no 853; EASTWOOD 1983; ÉTAIX 1983, p. 87 no 173; RUBIO Y FERNÁNDEZ 1984, p. 348 sq. no 415; LAURANSON-ROSAZ 1991, p. 108 fig. 3 (fol. 117va/vb, lower part) and p. 109 n. 44; SAMSÓ I MOYA 1991, p. 256; Inventario general de manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional 2000, p. 82 sq., here p. 83 (with the wrong date “S. XII”); BORST 2001, 1, p. 272–274, here p. 273 sq. (p. 272: “wohl in der Provence angelegt, jedenfalls 1026 … Avignon”; the text is not mentioned); DE FORBIN 2001, p. 145 and 147; GARCÍA Y AVILÉS 2001, p. 205; BORST 2006, 1, p. 249 sq., here p. 250 (“von mehreren Händen im Jahr 1026 angelegt, wohl in der Provence. Als Schreiber stellte sich am Ende ein Mönch Arnulfus vor, der vielleicht in Avignon lebte”; manuscript Mc); BORST 2006, 2, p. 800–802 (“um Avignon 1026”) and 804–819 (edition; manuscript Mc); Luces del norte 2021, p. 44–48 no 2 with fig. (fol. 89v/90r, 92v, 94/95r and 57r, detail), here p. 46 (“Possiblemente oeste de Francia o Aviñón, 1026”); WALLIS 2021, p. 45; DENOËL. The manuscript is not mentioned by STRECKER 1914, p. 682–686 no CXIV; JONES 1939, p. 92 sq.; LAPIDGE 2019, p. 527. Digitization: http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000054177.

56v-56v, 57ra-58vb, Pacificus of Verona (?) - Versus ad inveniendum annos Domini seu indicationes et tota argumenta per librum de temporis

Here reworked version without the verses 3–6, 8, 43 and 64. However the younger hand of Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1855 (see there) added on the inner margin of fol. 56 at least verse 5. The same hand added also other computistic marginalia on fol. 56v, 57r, 57v and 58v. The Hispano-Catalano-Septimanian calendar has on fol. 34v (on August 1st) an addition which is missing in Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1530 (see there) and Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1855 (see there): “verzellis . S eusebii . S. felicis . Gironensis”. This shows an individual relationship to S. Eusebio in Vercelli and Sant Feliu de Girona of the owner of this manuscript (person or institution). However, the cult horizon of the calendar is strongly adapted to saints in Septimania and Provence, whereby in the latter region the references to Avignon are striking. Furthermore, the “felix adalax comitissa” mentioned as dead in the colophon on fol. 117vb under the year 1026 is the Countess Adelaida-Blanche of Anjou (ca. 950 – 1026), who probably died in Avignon and is buried in Montmajour near Arles. The manuscript was bought with the money from the dotation for manuscript and book purchase made by the Jesuit Joachim Faucher, as one can see from the printed commemorative paper label on the inner plate of the book-cover: “EX FUNDATIONE R. P. Ioachimi Faucher Bolennensis Societatis Iesu, ab Anno 1644.” It then came into the collection of Antoine Calvet († 1694), judge in Avignon, where it was used in 1680 by the Maurist Claude Estiennot for a partial collation, a description and a transcription, preserved in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 12771, p. 7–18 and 139–151. The manuscript was then sold by his son Michel-Antoine Calvet via the librarian M. Giroud in Avignon for the collection of Pierre-François Pertuis († before 1722), archdeacon and vicar general of this city, and came in 1730, with the help of François-Maurice de Gonteri († 1742), archbishop of Avignon, into the city’s Jesuits’ College library, where it was stored until the dissolution of the Jesuit order in July/August 1768. The Benedictines of Saint-Martial in Avignon administered this library in February 1769, but their plan to create a public library, could not be realized so that the manuscript ended up, after the purchase by a “Sieur Fréchiers, rue de la Grande-Carreteris” on 14 July 1769, in the collection of the Marquis de Cambis-Velleron († 1772) in Avignon, before it was sold via the agent Taoul to the Royal Library at Madrid between 1773 and 1783: MABILLON 1707, p. 322 sq. no XCV; Courrier d’Avignon 1769, p. 208; Catalogue raisonné 1770, p. 570–636 no CLXXIII; PERTZ 1843b, p. 781; EWALD 1881, p. 302 sq.; BOULAND 1895; DÜMMLER 1895b, p. 442 n. 7 (“saec. XI”); CHOSSAT 1896, p. 495 with n. 1; BESSE 1909, p. 231; DOMÍNGUEZ Y BORDONA 1933, 1, p. 287 no 662 (“S. XII”); DE MANTEYER 1939, p. 150–238; CORDOLIANI 1955a, p. 459–463 and 481; CORDOLIANI 1955b, p. 194; Colophons de manuscrits 1965, p. 177 no 1432; SCHALLER/KÖNSGEN 1977, p. 39 no 814; EASTWOOD 1983; ÉTAIX 1983, p. 87 no 173; RUBIO Y FERNÁNDEZ 1984, p. 348 sq. no 415; LAURANSON-ROSAZ 1991, p. 108 fig. 3 (fol. 117va/vb, lower part) and p. 109 n. 44; Inventario general de manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional 2000, p. 82 sq. (with the wrong date “S. XII”); BORST 2001, 1, p. 272–274, here p. 274 (p. 272: “wohl in der Provence angelegt, jedenfalls 1026 … Avignon”); DE FORBIN 2001, p. 145 and 147; GARCÍA Y AVILÉS 2001, p. 205; BORST 2006, 1, p. 249 sq., here p. 250 (“von mehreren Händen im Jahr 1026 angelegt, wohl in der Provence. Als Schreiber stellte sich am Ende ein Mönch Arnulfus vor, der vielleicht in Avignon lebte”; manuscript Mc); NOTHAFT 2017; Luces del norte 2021, p. 44–48 no 2 with fig. (fol. 89v/90r, 92v, 94/95r and 57r, detail), here p. 46 (“Possiblemente oeste de Francia o Aviñón, 1026”); WALLIS 2021, p. 52 sq. no 56; DENOËL. The manuscript is not mentioned by STRECKER 1914, p. 673–682 no CXIII; JONES 1939, p. 93; CORDOLIANI 1960–1961, p. 109 and 183; MEERSSEMAN/ADDA 1966, p. 25–28, 40–48 and 138–148 (edition); AVESANI 1967, p. 909 sq. and 914–916; VALTORTA 2006, p. 181. Digitization: http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000054177.

104r-117vb, (olim 103r–116vb), Claudius of Turin - Chronicon

Here in an interpolated version of 854. The Hispano-Catalano-Septimanian calendar has on fol. 34v (on August 1st) an addition which is missing in Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1530 (see there) and Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1855 (see there): “verzellis . S eusebii . S. felicis . Gironensis”. This shows an individual relationship to S. Eusebio in Vercelli and Sant Feliu de Girona of the owner of this manuscript (person or institution). However, the cult horizon of the calendar is strongly adapted to saints in Septimania and Provence, whereby in the latter region the references to Avignon are striking. Furthermore, the “felix adalax comitissa” mentioned as dead in the colophon on fol. 117vb under the year 1026 is the Countess Adelaida-Blanche of Anjou (ca. 950 – 1026), who probably died in Avignon and is buried in Montmajour near Arles. The manuscript was bought with the money from the dotation for manuscript and book purchase made by the Jesuit Joachim Faucher, as one can see from the printed commemorative paper label on the inner plate of the book-cover: “EX FUNDATIONE R. P. Ioachimi Faucher Bolennensis Societatis Iesu, ab Anno 1644.” It then came into the collection of Antoine Calvet († 1694), judge in Avignon, where it was used in 1680 by the Maurist Claude Estiennot for a partial collation, a description and a transcription, preserved in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 12771, p. 7–18 and 139–151. The manuscript was then sold by his son Michel-Antoine Calvet via the librarian M. Giroud in Avignon for the collection of Pierre-François Pertuis († before 1722), archdeacon and vicar general of this city, and came in 1730, with the help of François-Maurice de Gonteri († 1742), archbishop of Avignon, into the city’s Jesuits’ College library, where it was stored until the dissolution of the Jesuit order in July/August 1768. The Benedictines of Saint-Martial in Avignon administered this library in February 1769, but their plan to create a public library, could not be realized so that the manuscript ended up, after the purchase by a “Sieur Fréchiers, rue de la Grande-Carreteris” on 14 July 1769, in the collection of the Marquis de Cambis-Velleron († 1772) in Avignon, before it was sold via the agent Taoul to the Royal Library at Madrid between 1773 and 1783: MABILLON 1707, p. 322 sq. no XCV; Courrier d’Avignon 1769, p. 208; Catalogue raisonné 1770, p. 570–636 no CLXXIII; PERTZ 1843b, p. 781; EWALD 1881, p. 302 sq.; BOULAND 1895; DÜMMLER 1895b, p. 442 n. 7 (“saec. XI”); CHOSSAT 1896, p. 495 with n. 1; BESSE 1909, p. 231; DOMÍNGUEZ Y BORDONA 1933, 1, p. 287 no 662 (“S. XII”); DE MANTEYER 1939, p. 150–238; CORDOLIANI 1955a, p. 481; CORDOLIANI 1955b, p. 194; Colophons de manuscrits 1965, p. 177 no 1432; FERRARI 1973, p. 301–308 (p. 307 sq.: ed. of the dedication letter; manuscript A); EASTWOOD 1983; ÉTAIX 1983, p. 87 no 173; RUBIO Y FERNÁNDEZ 1984, p. 348 sq. no 415; CAVADINI 1986; LAURANSON-ROSAZ 1991, p. 108 fig. 3 (fol. 117va/vb, lower part) and p. 109 n. 44; ALLEN 1998, p. 290–292 with n. 19, p. 294–297 with n. 26, 29, 33 and 36, p. 303 and p. 305 n. 86; BORST 1998, p. 511; BELLAGENTE 1999, p. 238–240 with n. 5 (“codice ... di cui è difficile stabilire l’origine”) and p. 243–245 (manuscript A); HEIL 2000, p. 78 n. 15 (“southern France, a. 1026”); Inventario general de manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional 2000, p. 82 sq. (with the wrong date “S. XII”); BORST 2001, 1, p. 272–274, here p. 274 (p. 272: “wohl in der Provence angelegt, jedenfalls 1026 … Avignon”); DE FORBIN 2001, p. 145 and 147; GARCÍA Y AVILÉS 2001, p. 205; BOULHOL 2002, p. 343 sq. no 19, here p. 343; BORST 2006, 1, p. 249 sq., here p. 250 (“von mehreren Händen im Jahr 1026 angelegt, wohl in der Provence. Als Schreiber stellte sich am Ende ein Mönch Arnulfus vor, der vielleicht in Avignon lebte”; manuscript Mc); BORST 2006, 3, p. 1341–1349 (edition of fol. 115r/v: p. 1345–1349; manuscript Mc); VALTORTA 2006, p. 77; NOTHAFT 2017; WARNTJES 2020, p. 384 n. 4, p. 385 with n. 7 and 9 sq. (“southern France, AD 1026”; with the wrong folio-numbers “104r–116v”) and p. 392 with n. 49; Luces del norte 2021, p. 44–48 no 2 with fig. (fol. 89v/90r, 92v, 94/95r and 57r, detail), here p. 46 (“Possiblemente oeste de Francia o Aviñón, 1026”); WALLIS 2021; DENOËL. Digitization: http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000054177.