Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 5231

Settlement
Paris
Repository
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Shelfmark
Ms. lat. 5231
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-05-23 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Revised encoding and content.
2025-06-19 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Updated content.
Dating
12th c.
Place of origin / provenance
Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse
Successive provenance(s)
Online catalogues
Archives et manuscrits - BnF
Scans
Microfilm
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 5231', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/paris_bnf_ms_lat_05231.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

130ra-134ra, Johannes Diaconus - Vita S. Nicolai [BHL 6104–6110]

Link to digitization: here.
Here BHL 6106 combined with BHL 6160–6161. A part of the author’s prologue has been added by a thirteenth-century hand after the end of the original copy on fol. 134ra. The manuscript came via the library of Charles de Montchal, archbishop of Toulouse (1628–1651), where it was Cod. CCLXXVI or Cod. CCLXXVII, into the manuscript collection of the archbishop of Rheims Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (1671–1710) who donated his library to the Royal Library in Paris in 1700: DE MONTFAUCON 1739, 2, p. 908 col. b; DELISLE 1868, p. 305 (without mentioning the text); Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum 1889, p. 390 sq., here p. 390 (with an unprecise identification); OMONT 1911, p. 377 no 51; SCHAPIRO 1963a, p. 355 (on the incantation against the three-fold ubiquitous evil on fol. 129v and a further entry at the end of the manuscript); DOLBEAU 1979, p. 195 with n. 1 (without mentioning the text); LEMAITRE 1996, p. 36 with n. 59 and p. 56 n. 59 (without mentioning the text); VALTORTA 2006, p. 157 sq., here p. 158. The manuscript is not mentioned by CORSI 1979; D’ANGELO 2008, p. 370 sq. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.