Montecassino, Archivio e Biblioteca dell’Abbazia, Ms. 39

1-587, Florus of Lyons - Expositio in Epistolas beati Pauli ex operibus S. Augustini

Here under the name of Augustine and incomplete (Rm ... II Cor): DE MONTFAUCON 1739, 1, p. 221 col. a no 39 (“Beda in Epistolas Pauli. Sermones duo Sancti Leonis Papae”); CAILLAU/SAINT-YVES 1836, 1, p. 9 col. b (the text is not identified); CARAVITA 1869–1870, 1, p. 87, 166 and 168; Bibliotheca Casinensis 1873, p. 369–374 and plate XX (p. 556, detail); INGUANEZ 1915–1923, p. 55 sq. (“saec. XI”); WILMART 1926b, p. 205 n. 2 (“XIe siècle”) and p. 216 (here with the wrong shelfmark “38”); CHARLIER 1947, p. 132 n. 4 (“XIe s.”); STEGMÜLLER 1950b, p. 310–312 no 2276–2290, here p. 312; STEGMÜLLER 1954, p. 417–423 no 6920–6933, here p. 423 (“XI”); HEIL 1998, p. 403 (“Italy ... Montecassino”); NEWTON 1999, p. 88, 255, 353 (“It appears that a northern scribe brought his highly developed skills to the abbey and produced this volume there”) and plate 79 (p. 417, part); FRANSEN e. a. 2011; BOODTS/PARTOENS 2016, p. 264 (“XI2/2, Montecassino”; manuscript M), p. 267 sq. with n. 32, p. 269 (“We can posit with certainty a hyparchetype for M and N, which regularly share exclusive errors … Both manuscripts contain a relatively large number of individual variants”), p. 270 with n. 36 and p. 271 (“We have documented the close relationship between M and N, but cannot yet situate this group clearly within the global transmission”). The manuscript is not mentioned by DE CONINCK e. a. 2009; KOROLEVA 2015. Francis Newton identifies this manuscript with an entry in the library catalogue of Abbot Desiderius (1058–1087) “Super epistolam ad Romanos” (Chronicon Monasterii Casinensis III 63), but this seems doubtful as the manuscript is rather an external gift to the abbey of Montecassino than a product of it.