New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton Ms 058

85v-90v, Alcuin - Epistola 136

Here excerpts (“De gladio”). The manuscript first came into the collection of Henri Baudot, Dijon, 17 September 1849, but was not in his sale, Dijon, 7 November 1894. The manuscript was then in the possession of Baron de Gruneisen and was sold under the no 4 at the Drouot auction which took place in Paris between the 15 and 24 December 1930. In 1932, it was obtained from Fritz Finkenstaedt, Munich, who had bought it from Dr. Ernst Schulz. Munich: DE RICCI/WILSON 1935–1940, 2, p. 1763 no 58 (“early IXth c. ... Written in France”; with the wrong folio numbers “84 v. – 89 v.”); REYNOLDS 1987, p. 493 n. 46; DOLBEAU 1988, p. 256 with n. 4; GORMAN 1997a, p. 336, p. 339 with n. 6 (“South France, saec. IX2/3”) and p. 353 sq.; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 255 (“IXe”); DE FORBIN 2001, p. 145 (“pas actuellement localisé”) and 147 (“Non localisé ... IXe siecle”); BISCHOFF 2004, p. 315 no 3603 (without mentioning this text); PELLEGRIN e. a. 2010a, p. 439 (“milieu du IXe s. (importante lacune”) (the text is not mentioned); KEEFE 2012a, S. 291 sq., here p. 291; TIGNOLET 2023, p. 165 with n. 281 sq.. The manuscript is not mentioned by DÜMMLER 1895a, p. 205; DÜMMLER 1899, p. 643; GANZ 2010, p. 194. A new description by Consuelo Dutschke and partial digitization (20 images) is published under: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/PlimptonMS058_20.