Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 5304

Settlement
Paris
Repository
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Shelfmark
Ms. lat. 5304
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-05-27 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Revised encoding and content.
2025-05-18 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Added content.
Dating
1st half of the 11th c. and 11th c.
Place of origin / provenance
Catalonia (diocesis of Elne?)
Successive provenance(s)
Online catalogues
Archives et manuscrits - BnF
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Matthias M. Tischler, 'Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 5304', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/paris_bnf_ms_lat_05304.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

61ra-267vb, Sine Auctore - Homiliarium

Link to digitization: here.
Pars hiemalis of a Homiliary, i. e. a full biblical, hagiographical and patristic lectionary from December 1 to the third Sunday after Epiphanias; the text on fol. 61–131 shows three nocturnes with three lectures which indicates no monastic, but secular use. Perhaps more probable Catalan origin, as the notation of the chant of Sybill (no 16) is Catalan, 2nd half of the 11th century (fol. 112va–113ra). For the diocesis of Elne e. g. could speak that the feast of the nocturne of St. Paul of Narbonne (no 8) has only three lectures, unimaginable at Narbonne Cathedral. The manuscript was in Colbert’s library, according to Robert Amiet most probably bought in the Roussillon. Yet, could it be a manuscript from Pierre de Marca’s library?: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744b, p. 82 col. a – p. 83 col. a (“Hujusce codicis pars undecimo, pars decimo tertio saeculo videtur exarata”); Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum 1890, p. 39–43; La musique française 1934, p. 8 no 10 (“Xe s.”); ANGLÈS I PÀMIES 1935, p. 292 sq. with n. 3 and fig. 76 (fol. 112v); CORBIN 1953, p. 6 sq.; OLIVAR I DAYDÍ 1967, p. 51 no 178c (“Leccionari de l’ofici. Segle XI”); DOLBEAU 1979, p. 200 n. 5; ÉTAIX 1981, p. 333 and 350–358; AMIET 1982a, p. 287 no 12 (“fin du XIme siècle”); AMIET 1982b, p. 143 (“Elne (?), début du XII[e] siècle”); AVRIL e. a. 1982, p. XIII, p. 30 sq. no 35 (“Catalogne … XIe s. (milieu)”), p. 45 sq. no 41 (“Catalogne … XIe s. (2e moitié-fin)”) and pl. XXII–XXIII (fol. 168v and 258v, details); DUFOUR 1982, p. 166 n. 20 and p. 168 (the text is not mentioned); MARTIMORT 1982a, p. 80 (“XIe s. … peut-être début XIIe … Homiliaire à situer en Catalogne ; le diocèse d’Elne n’est pas exclu”); LEMARIÉ 1984a, p. 237; ALTURO I PERUCHO 1987b, p. 369 n. 56; MUNDÓ I MARCET 1994, p. 139 with n. 39 and p. 158 n. 39; OLIVAR Y DAYDÍ 1996, p. 66 (“primera meitat del s. XII: d’Elna?”); ALTÉS I AGUILÓ 1997, p. 117; ÉTAIX 1997, p. 65 with n. 13 (“XIe s.”); ALTÉS I AGUILÓ 2003, p. 137–140 and 150; FRAÏSSE 2003, p. 29 with n. 8 (“milieu du XIe siècle”; the text is not mentioned); ZAPKE 2007c, p. 197, 202, 205 and p. 235 n. 73; ALTÉS I AGUILÓ 2010b, p. 95 and 214; ALTÉS I AGUILÓ 2013, p. 50 with n. 24 (“s. XI, 2a meitat”), p. 52, 71, 73 and 77; GUILIANO 2021, p. 282 (“Eastern Pyrénées, s. XI2/2”; mentioning among others Paulus Diaconus, Homiliarium and Alanas of Farfa, Homiliarium). Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

116rb-119rb, 129rb-129rb, 164ra-164rb, Luculentius - Homiliarium

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Here Homiliae 8 and 12 (only first lines and excerpts on Mt 2, 16): see there, especially ÉTAIX 1981, p. 353 sq. and 395; MACHIELSEN 1990, 2, p. 626 no 4110. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

228rb-236va, Ambrosius Autpertus - Sermo in Purificatione S. Mariae

Link to digitization: here.
Pars hiemalis of a Homiliary, i. e. a full biblical, hagiographical and patristic lectionary from December 1 to the third Sunday after Epiphanias; the text on fol. 61–131 shows three nocturnes with three lectures which indicates no monastic, but secular use. Perhaps more probable Catalan origin, as the notation of the chant of Sybill (no 16) is Catalan, 2nd half of the 11th century (fol. 112va–113ra). For the diocesis of Elne e. g. could speak that the feast of the nocturne of St. Paul of Narbonne (no 8) has only three lectures, unimaginable at Narbonne Cathedral. The manuscript was in Colbert’s library, according to Robert Amiet most probably bought in the Roussillon. Yet, could it be a manuscript from Pierre de Marca’s library? The Sermo runs here under Ambrose’s name: Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744b, p. 82 col. a – p. 83 col. a (“Hujusce codicis pars undecimo, pars decimo tertio saeculo videtur exarata”); Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum 1890, p. 39–43; La musique française 1934, p. 8 no 10 (“Xe s.”); ANGLÈS I PÀMIES 1935, p. 292 sq. with n. 3 and fig. 76 (fol. 112v); CORBIN 1953, p. 6 sq.; BARRÉ 1965, p. 6 no 11; OLIVAR I DAYDÍ 1967, p. 51 no 178c (“Segle XI”; the text is not mentioned); LAMBERT 1970, p. 594 no 713 (“s. XI”; with the wrong indication “Sub nomine Alcuini”); DOLBEAU 1979, p. 200 n. 5; ÉTAIX 1981, p. 333 and 350–358, here p. 357; AMIET 1982a, p. 287 no 12 (“fin du XIme siècle”); AMIET 1982b, p. 143 (“Elne (?), début du XII[e] siècle”); AVRIL e. a. 1982, p. XIII, p. 30 no 35, p. 45 sq. no 41 (“Catalogne … XIe s. (2e moitié-fin)”) and pl. XXII–XXIII (fol. 168v and 258v, details); DUFOUR 1982, p. 166 n. 20 and p. 168 (the text is not mentioned); MARTIMORT 1982a, p. 80 (“XIe s. … peut-être début XIIe … Homiliaire à situer en Catalogne ; le diocèse d’Elne n’est pas exclu”); LEMARIÉ 1984a, p. 237; ALTURO I PERUCHO 1987b, p. 369 n. 56; MACHIELSEN 1990, 1, p. 73 sq. no 164; MUNDÓ I MARCET 1994, p. 139 with n. 39 and p. 158 n. 39; OLIVAR Y DAYDÍ 1996, p. 66 (“primera meitat del s. XII: d’Elna?”; the text is not mentioned); ALTÉS I AGUILÓ 1997, p. 117; ÉTAIX 1997, p. 65 with n. 13 (“XIe s.”; the text is not mentioned); ALTÉS I AGUILÓ 2003, p. 137–140 and 150; FRAÏSSE 2003, p. 29 with n. 8 (“milieu du XIe siècle”; the text is not mentioned); ZAPKE 2007c, p. 197, 202, 205 and p. 235 n. 73; ALTÉS I AGUILÓ 2010b, p. 95 and 214; ALTÉS I AGUILÓ 2013, p. 50 with n. 24 (“s. XI, 2a meitat”), p. 52, 71, 73 and 77; GUILIANO 2021, p. 282 (“Eastern Pyrénées, s. XI2/2”; mentioning among others Paulus Diaconus, Homiliarium and Alanas of Farfa, Homiliarium). The manuscript is not mentioned by WINANDY 1950, p. 103 sq.; WINANDY 1953; WEBER 1976; WEBER 1979, p. 883 sq. and 984; ERHART 2005, p. 83; VALTORTA 2006, p. 15 sq. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

251va-258rb, Paulus Diaconus - Vita S. Gregorii [BHL 3639]

Link to digitization: here.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744b, p. 82 col. a – p. 83 col. a (“Hujusce codicis pars undecimo, pars decimo tertio saeculo videtur exarata”), here p. 83 col. a no 66; Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum 1890, p. 39–43, here p. 43 no 42 (the text is not exactly identified); La musique française 1934, p. 8 no 10 (“Xe s.”; the text is not mentioned); OLIVAR I DAYDÍ 1967, p. 51 no 178c (“Segle XI”; the text is not mentioned); DOLBEAU 1979, p. 200 n. 5; ÉTAIX 1981, p. 333 and 350–358, here p. 358 no 63 (first correct identification); AMIET 1982b, p. 143 (“Elne (?), début du XII[e] siècle” ; the text is not mentioned); AVRIL e. a. 1982, p. XIII, p. 30 no 35, p. 45 sq. no 41 (“Catalogne … XIe s. (2e moitié-fin)”) and pl. XXII–XXIII (fol. 168v and 258v, details; the text is not mentioned); DUFOUR 1982, p. 166 n. 20 and p. 168 (the text is not mentioned); MARTIMORT 1982a, p. 80 (“XIe s. … peut-être début XIIe … Homiliaire à situer en Catalogne ; le diocèse d’Elne n’est pas exclu”; the text is not mentioned); LIMONE 1988, p. 911 no 37, p. 912–914 no 37 and p. 935 sq. no 37 (“sec. XI”); OLIVAR Y DAYDÍ 1996, p. 66 (“primera meitat del s. XII: d’Elna?”; the text is not mentioned); ÉTAIX 1997, p. 65 with n. 13 (“XIe s.”; the text is not mentioned); TUZZO 2002, p. XXIII (“sec. XI”), XXX, XXXVIII–XL, LI and stemma codicum (manuscript Pa7); FRAÏSSE 2003, p. 29 with n. 8 (“milieu du XIe siècle”; the text is not mentioned); ZAPKE 2007c, p. 197, 202, 205 and p. 235 n. 73. The manuscript is not mentioned by GRISAR 1887; CASTALDI 2000; CHIESA/STELLA 2005, p. 497–501 [PAOLO CHIESA]; VALTORTA 2006, p. 218 sq. BRACKMANN 1901, p. 330–334 deals only with Italian witnesses. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.