Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, C. 3

Settlement
Roma
Repository
Biblioteca Vallicelliana
Shelfmark
C. 3
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Not specified
Revisions
2024-05-29 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Revised encoding and content.
Dating
1st or 2nd quarter of the 9th c.
Place of origin / provenance
Septimania
Successive provenance(s)
Online catalogues
Scans
Scan (colors)
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, C. 3', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/roma-biblioteca_vallicelliana_c_3.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

1r-1v, Sine Auctore - Iudicium aquae frigidae

Link to digitization: here.
VETTORI 1749, 1, fol. 200v; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 230 Nr. 5354 (“(Südliches) Frankreich (nicht Lyon), IX. Jh., 1./2. Viertel”; the text is not mentioned). For the further bibliography see under “Claudius of Turin, In Matthaeum”. The manuscript is not mentioned by WAITZ 1876, p. 619–621 no I; ZEUMER 1886, p. 620 no 18.

2r-202v, Claudius of Turin - In Matthaeum

Here a manuscript of two codicological units (fol. 2r–97 and fol. 98r–202v) of which the first shows a quire numbering “a” to … “M” and the second one “J” to “XIIJ”. Also, the handwriting and illumination in both parts is different. Furthermore, only the second part has “capitulationes” to Books II and III: VETTORI 1749, 1, fol. 200v; MAI 1840, p. 301 (“vetustatis tam venerandae ut ipsi Claudio videatur coaevus”); Bibliotheca Casinensis 1875, Florilegium Casinense, p. 107 col. b – p. 110 col. a; COMBA 1895, p. 149 and 154 sq.; DÜMMLER 1895a, p. 593 no 2; DÜMMLER 1895b, p. 430; BOFFITO 1897–1898; BOFFITO 1899; MANITIUS 1911a, p. 395; GIORGI 1917, p. 569 sq. with n. 2; TAFEL 1925, p. 54–59; LESNE 1938, p. 337 with n. 10; CHARLIER 1947, p. 156 still n. 1; STEGMÜLLER 1950b, p. 245 no 1958; MOTTIRONI 1959; GIORGETTI VICHI/MOTTIRONI 1961, p. 347; STEGMÜLLER/REINHARDT 1976, p. 380 sq. no 1958, here p. 381 (“X”); GORMAN 1997b, p. 285 (“southern France”), p. 286 with n. 1, p. 316 and 322 (“saec. IX1, southern France … later at Lyons”); HEIL 1997, p. 407 n. 85 (“10. Jh, aus Westfranken (Reims?); with the wrong shelfmark “C III”); BOULHOL 2002, p. 21 n. 42 (“1re moitié [sc. “du IXe siècle”], Sud de la France”) and p. 336 sq. (“1re moitié, IXe s., sud de la France; plus tard à Lyon”); VALTORTA 2006, p. 78; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 230 no 5354 (“(Südliches) Frankreich (nicht Lyon), IX. Jh., 1./2. Viertel”); PANIAGUA Y AGUILAR 2016, p. 170 sq. with n. 28 and 32; CHAMBERT-PROTAT 2018, p. 75 with n. 27. Is this the manuscript later mentioned in the library catalogue of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières (see there)? In any case, the manuscript was later in Lyons, where it was purchased between 1605 and 1607, latest 1607, by the Celestine monk Jean du Bois, who died in Rome († 1626) so that it came finally to the Oratorium in Rome; see the entry on fol. 1r upper left corner: “Ex Bibliotheca lugdunensi ab hereticis combusta, exemptus codex venditus ab heretico, emptus a P. Joanne a Bosco Caelestino”: PELLEGRIN 1985, p. 273 sq. (referring to the library of Saint-Martin de l’Île-Barbe). On the right side of this entry the late medieval shelfmark “C XLIIJ”. The reference by DÜMMLER 1895a, p. 593 no 2 n. 2 to the copy of Laon [!] Cathedral, described in a library catalogue of this religious institution (MONTFAUCON 1739, 2, p. 1293 col. a no 16), does not match the incipit of our manuscript. Already MABILLON 1675, p. 46 mentioned a copy at Laon Cathedral: “Expositionem in Matthaeum reperi in Bibliotheca Cathedralis Ecclesiae Laudunensis”. Digitization: https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/18428/manifest.