Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 2855

1v-62v, Paschasius Radbertus - De corpore et sanguine Domini

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Unique copy of the second recension. This copy was perhaps brought by Bishop Godesscalc of Le Puy from Catalonia to Le Puy on his way back from Santiago de Compostela and San Martín de Abelda crossing Catalonia in autumn/winter 950. According to BOUHOT 1976, p. 83 with n. 21 this manuscript could be dated to the 9th century and would be perhaps the manuscript offered by Paschasius Radbertus to Charles the Bald in 843. But the manuscript is not mentioned by BISCHOFF 2014, p. 86. It is certainly not from Corbie (GANZ 1990) and seemingly more southern French or even Catalan and more from the 10th century. This manuscript contains in its second part the famous copy of Ildefons of Toledo’s De laude virginitatis S. Marie made by monk Gómez of Sant Martín de Albelda. Thus the copy was perhaps brought by Bishop Godesscalc of Le Puy from Catalonia to Le Puy on his way back from Santiago de Compostela and San Martín de Abelda, when he crossed Catalonia with a stay at Ripoll in autumn/winter 950. The manuscript still at the Cathedral of Le Puy, when Dom Estiennot made a collation of it for Jean Mabillon in 1677, before it was given with 47 other Le Puy manuscripts to Jean-Bapiste Colbert in 1681(mentioned in the inventory of 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 40: “Radbertus de corpore et sanguine Domini. Hildefonsus Toletanus de perpetua virginitate sanctae Mariae”). The copy was used for the edition of the work by Edmond Martène and Ursin Durand: MARTÈNE/DURAND 1733, p. 369 sq. (“Aniciensis ecclesiæ codex antiquissimus”); Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 343 col. a–b, here col. a no 1 (“Is codex saeculo nono exaratus videtur”); DE WAILLY 1838, p. 281 sq. no VIII; DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 40 and p. 514 with n. 3; TRAUBE 1896, p. 45, 52 sq. and 747 (on fol. 1v; manuscript P’’) and p. 52 (on fol. 62r/v; manuscript P’’); FARINELLI 1901, p. 12 sq.; MANITIUS 1911a, p. 410 (“s. X”); DÜMMLER 1925, p. 136 sq. no 4 (on fol. 2r–3v; manuscript P’’); BLANCO Y GARCÍA 1937, p. 11–13, here p. 11 (“obra ... escrita en letra del siglo XIV”); PELTIER 1938, p. 103 sq. (“IXe siècle”; erronously separated from a manuscript that Dom Estiennot had collated in Le Puy); PORCHER 1952, p. 166 sq. (“Xe s.”); SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1962, 1, p. 133; SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1962, 2, pl. VIIIb (fol. 83v); MILLARES Y CARLO 1963, p. 60 sq. no 125; SCHAPIRO 1963b, p. 60 n. 59; CANAL Y SÁNCHEZ-PAGÍN 1968, p. 58 no 6 (“s. X”); PAULUS 1969, p. VIII sq., p. X with n. 1 sq., p. XI with n. 1 sq., p. XXXI sq. (“10. Jahrhundert”), p. XXXVIII–XL, stemma between p. XL and XLI, and LVIII (manuscript K); BLANCO Y GARCÍA 1971, p. 14 sq., here p. 14 (“obra ... escrita en letra del siglo XIV”); GILISSEN 1972, p. 33; DÍAZ Y DÍAZ 1979, p. 55–64; MILLARES Y CARLO 1983, 1, p. 336; MILLARES Y CARLO 1999, 1, p. 158–160 no 244, here p. 158 sq.; TRISTANO 2002, p. 160 sq. (“scritta in una minuscula carolina della fine del X secolo ... con alcuni elementi grafici che riportano alla regione sud-occidentale della Francia ... area di fusione tra cultura visigotica e cultura carolingia ... la presenza di scrittura carolina con caratteristiche sud-occidentali anche se non è accertato che si possa attribuire alla Septimania”); YARZA Y URQUIOLA 2007, p. 93–95, here p. 93 (with the wrong date “s. XIV”); BOUHOT 2013, p. 98 n. 40. This manuscript came 1681 from Le Puy into Colbert’s library and is mentioned in the inventory of 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 40. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.