Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 2989

154v-154v, Paulus Diaconus - Epistola (Theodemari abbatis Casinensis)

Link to digitization: here.
Here mutilated at the end; expl. “… Certum est quia vos hoc factum beatiores efficiet . dum talem”. The typical Catalan minuscule shows Visigothic substrate and the style of the initial letters mixing interlace penwork in brown ink with the use of several colours such as yellow, blue, green, and violet hints rather at a Catalan scriptorium such as Santa Maria de Ripoll. The manuscript is witnessed as possession of Moissac earliest in the 15th century, see the ex-libris on fol. 1r and 2v. The codex is then also mentioned in the catalogue of 1678 among the Moissac manuscripts the transfer of which Colbert had ordered in that year: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 360 col. b no 2 (“Is codex undecimo sæculo exaratus videtur”); BETHMANN 1851, p. 298 (“s. XI”); DELISLE 1868, p. 519; DÜMMLER 1895a, p. 509 (manuscript Par); PORCHER 1952, p. 372 sq., here p. 372 (“XIe s. … Sud-Ouest de la France”); HALLINGER/WEGENER 1963, p. 141 no 21, p. 143–145, 148 and 155 (manuscript Mc); SCHAPIRO 1963b, p. 45 n. 21 (“early eleventh century”; classified among “South French manuscripts of the period around 1000”); DUFOUR 1981, p. 219 and 225 sq.; VALTORTA 2006, p. 271 sq., here p. 272. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr. The copy is not recognized as Catalan by DUFOUR 1972, p. XIX, p. 15 n. 8, p. 42 n. 29, p. 89, p. 134 sq. and pl. XVII (fol. 22r, detail) and is therefore not mentioned by AVRIL e. a. 1982. This letter is not mentioned by ALTURO I PERUCHO 2018.