Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 44

Settlement
Toulouse
Repository
Bibliothèque municipale
Shelfmark
Ms. 44
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Clara Renedo Mirambell
Revisions
2024-07-04 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Created entry.
2025-05-26 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Updated content.
Dating
1299
Place of origin / provenance
Albi Cathedral,
Successive provenance(s)
later given to Toulouse OP
Online catalogues
ARCA - Bibliothèque numérique de l'IRHT
Scans
Scan (colour)
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Toulouse, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 44', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/toulouse_bm_ms_044.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

1ra-211ra, Claudius of Turin - In Matthaeum

Link to digitization: here.
According to an entry by the scribe at the end of the copy on fol. 211ra, the manuscript was produced on behalf of Bernard de Castanet, bishop of Albi (since 1275), who was later bishop of Le Puy (1308–1316) and finally died as Cardinal of Porto (1317): “Hunc librum fecit scribi Dominus bernardus de castaneto . Episcopus albiensis . Anno domini .M.o .CC.o nonagesimo Nono”. The manuscript is one of those given by him to the Dominican friars in Toulouse; see the long 14th-century entry on fol. Iv: “Istud volumen dedit Reverendus pater Dominus Bernardus de Castaneto divina providencia episcopus aniciensis conventui ffratrum predicatorum de tholosa . cum conditionibus quod non possit dari . vendi . permutari . impignorari . extra conventum accomodari . seu quocumque alio titulo alienari . et sic recepit ipsum dictus conventus quod si fieret dat ipsum summo pontifici . et vult quod prior teneatur reddere rationem camerario summi pontificis quandocumque fuerit requisitus quia de his conditionibus et donatione habet instrumentum registratum camerarius antedictus . Quicumque hic legit oret dominum pro donante”: Catalogue général des manuscrits 1885, p. 21 sq.; DÜMMLER 1895a, p. 593 no 2; DÜMMLER 1895b, p. 430; BOFFITO 1897–1898, p. 256; STEGMÜLLER 1950b, p. 245 no 1958; Dix siècles d’enluminure et de sculpture en Languedoc 1954, p. 33 no 45; Colophons de manuscrits 1965, p. 258 no 2058 (with the wrong folio-number “210r”); SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1968, 1, p. 381; SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1968, 2, pl. XXXIII (fol. 4va/vb, detail); MUNK OLSEN/PETITMENGIN 1989, p. 431 with n. 201 and p. 435 n. 201 (without mentioning shelfmark and text); Patrimoine public et Révolution française 1989, p. 93; GORMAN 1997b, p. 285, p. 286 with n. 1 and p. 322 with n. 12; BOULHOL 2002, p. 337; HARUNA-CZAPLICKI 2006, 1, p. 47 n. 94; HARUNA-CZAPLICKI 2006, 2; HARUNA-CZAPLICKI 2008; HARUNA-CZAPLICKI 2020. Digitization: https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md26xw42q094.