Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 2974

Settlement
Paris
Repository
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Shelfmark
Ms. lat. 2974
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-05-23 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Revised encoding and content.
Dating
ca. 2nd third of the 9th c.
Place of origin / provenance
Saint-Sauveur d’Aniane (?)
Successive provenance(s)
Online catalogues
Archives et manuscrits - BnF
Scans
Microfilm
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 2974', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/paris_bnf_ms_lat_02974.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

Alcuin - De arithmetica

The text is lost in this manuscript. The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43; DELISLE 1874, p. 444 no 34 with n. 3; MANITIUS 1907, p. 667 sq., here p. 667; MANITIUS 1911a, p. 285; PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 355 (the text is not mentioned); BISCHOFF 1972, p. 405; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 125; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”; the text is not mentioned). Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

Alcuin - De geometria

The text is lost in this manuscript. The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43; DELISLE 1874, p. 444 no 34 with n. 3; MANITIUS 1907, p. 667 sq.; MANITIUS 1911a, p. 285; PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 355 (the text is not mentioned); BISCHOFF 1972, p. 405; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 139; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”; the text is not mentioned). Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

Alcuin - De astronomia

The text is lost in this manuscript. The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43; DELISLE 1874, p. 444 no 34 with n. 3; MANITIUS 1907, p. 667 sq., here p. 668; MANITIUS 1911a, p. 285; PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 355 (the text is not mentioned); BISCHOFF 1972, p. 405; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 125 sq.; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”; the text is not mentioned). Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

Alcuin - De musica

TThe text is lost in this manuscript. The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43; DELISLE 1874, p. 444 no 34 with n. 3; MANITIUS 1907, p. 667 sq., here p. 667; MANITIUS 1911a, p. 285; PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 355 (the text is not mentioned); BISCHOFF 1972, p. 405; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 142; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”; the text is not mentioned). Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

Alcuin - Disputatio de rhetorica et de virtutibus sapientissimi regis Caroli et Albini magistri

The text is lost in this manuscript. The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43: DELISLE 1874, p. 444 no 34 with n. 3; MANITIUS 1907, p. 667 sq., here p. 667; PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 355 (the text is not mentioned); ZIMMERMANN 1968; BISCHOFF 1972, p. 405; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 161; BOHN 2003; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”; the text is not mentioned). The manuscript is not mentioned by COSTRINO 2016. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

44r-49r, Alcuin - De Trinitate ad Fredegisum quaestiones XXVIII

Link to digitization: here.
Here without the prologue to Fridugis. The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 358 col. a–b, here col. a no 2 (“Is codex undecimo sæculo exaratus videtur”); DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43: DELISLE 1874, p. 444 no 34 with n. 3; PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 354; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”). The manuscript is not mentioned by MATTER 1996; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 151 sq.; KNIBBS/MATTER 2012. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

50r-70r, Alcuin - De dialectica

Link to digitization: here.
The text is incomplete at the end (expl.: “… et hac sola specie philosophi .”). The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 358 col. a–b, here col. b no 4 (“Is codex undecimo sæculo exaratus videtur”); DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43; DELISLE 1874, p. 444 no 34 with n. 3; MANITIUS 1911a, p. 277 n. 4; PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 355; BISCHOFF 1972, p. 405; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 131 sq.; BOHN 2003, p. 128–145; GANZ 2010, p. 190; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”; the text is not mentioned). Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

74r-74r, Anonymus - Epitaphium Ardonis Anianensis (inc.: “Hic, licet indignus ...”)

Link to digitization: here.
The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 358 col. a–b, here col. b no 5 (“Is codex undecimo sæculo exaratus videtur”); DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43: DELISLE 1868, p. 513; DÜMMLER 1885, p. 342 (“10. Jahrh.”); WAITZ 1887, p. 198 n. 2; STRECKER 1923, p. 1031 no XI (manuscript P; with the wrong date “s. X”); WILMART 1940, p. 196–198 and p. 204 no VIb; STRECKER 1942, p. 41; STRECKER 1951b, p. 140 sq.; PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 355; WALTHER 1969, p. 405 no 8023; RÄDLE 1974, p. 81 sq. with n. 7 sq. and 11 (with the wrong claim of being possession of Aniane in the 11th c.) and p. 84 with n. 23; SCHALLER/KÖNSGEN 1977, p. 294 no 6521; JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1994, p. 185; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”; the text is not mentioned). Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

75r-75v, Benedict of Aniane - Concordia regularum

Link to digitization: here.
Here only an excerpt from the original preface written in hexameters, inc.: “Arbiter ut mundi …”; expl.: “… concordia rite”. The manuscript was in the 11th c. in Le Puy and is mentioned in the inventory of manuscripts which came into Colbert’s library in 1681, August 5, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 71r–72v, here fol. 72v under the number 43: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 358 col. a–b, here col. b no 5 (“Is codex undecimo sæculo exaratus videtur”); DELISLE 1868, p. 512 no 43; WILMART 1940, p. 196 sq. (from Ardo of Aniane’s school); PORCHER 1952, p. 354 sq., here p. 355 (the text is not mentioned); WALTHER 1969, p. 71 no 1395; RÄDLE 1974, p. 81 sq. with n. 11 (with the wrong claim of being possession of Aniane in the 11th c.); SCHALLER/KÖNSGEN 1977, p. 47 no 968 (with the unprecise folio number “f. 75r”); JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1994, p. 215 (with the unprecise folio number “75”); BONNERUE 1999, p. 172 (manuscript Pa); BISCHOFF 2014, p. 87 no 4262 (“Rhônegebiet, IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel”; the text is not mentioned); ENGELBERT 2016b, p. 139 with n. 6 (“saec. IX”). The manuscript is not mentioned by STRECKER 1951a, p. 167. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.