Vic, Arxiu i Biblioteca Episcopal, Ms. 44 (XXXVI)

84va-144vb, Sine Auctore - Institutio canonicorum Aquisgranensis a. 816

The manuscript was initiated by the Vic canon and scribe Ermemir Quintilià, who was also responsible for some other Vic manuscripts. The eleventh quire (fol. 83–90) is combining codicologically and palaeographically the two main parts of the manuscript, i. e. Isidore of Sevilles De summo bono and the Institutio canonicorum Aquisgranensis of 816, which confirms the content of the colophon by Ermemir Quintilià on fol. 84ra/rb: “Explicit liber qui sumatim dicitur bonus . quem excerpsit beatus ysidorus toletane sedis archiepiscopus ex libris moralium sancti gregorii papę quem misit ad leandrum episcopum videlicet libros XXXVI . et inde excerpsit istius volume pręfatus isidorus . de positione terrę et mari ac stellis . et de immensitatem [!] dei . et quid sunt angeli et virtutes in cęlo . et de vita et moribus clericorum et ceterorum [supplemented in brown ink: “que”] christianorum et qui apposuerit ibi cor ditabitur et exaltabitur . et possidebit regnum dei . Dehinc vero in antea scripta est vita cannonica [!] quem [corrected in brown ink into “quam”] constituit ludouicus imperator . ad universos qui pie vivere velint in sancta professione clericos . Ego autem ermemirus quamvis indignus sacerdos . istos duos libros . feci quoadunari eos in uno volumine ut plenius ac vivatius quisque degens in sancta professione confestim inveniat lectionem unde possit animam suam salvam facere amen . / Pax omnibus a deo ista legentibus et ortamur [rewritten in brown ink:] ut vestris [then:] orationibus adiuvemur . Scripta sunt hęc in sancta sede beati petri vico in anno IIII regnante philippo rege .”. This could be the manuscript later mentioned in the Vic inventory of April 1368: “Item altro libra de pregamí apelat ‘Isidorus De Sumo Bono’”, Inventarium ecclesiae Ausonensis a. 1368 (1934), p. 14 no 24; Inventarium ecclesiae Ausonensis a. 1368 (2001), p. 410 l. 1: VILLANUEVA 1821a, p. 40 sq. and 78 sq.; HÄNEL 1847, p. 92 no 36; DE EGURÉN 1859, p. XC; BEER 1894, p. 544, 546 and 549 no 553; NICOLAU I D’OLWER 1914–1915, p. 23; RIUS I SERRA 1926, p. 562 with n. 42; DOMÍNGUEZ Y BORDONA 1933, 1, p. 77 no 151 (“S. XI”); GUDIOL I CUNILL 1934, p. 5, 61–63 and fig. 9 (fol. 84r); LECLERCQ 1949a, p. 557 with n. 2; GUDIOL I CUNILL 1955, 3, p. 46–48 and 108; JUNYENT I SUBIRÀ 1963, p. 142 with n. 23; Colophons de manuscrits 1967, p. 49 no 3927; REYNOLDS 1979, p. 254 n. 3; PAGÈS I PARETAS/PLADEVALL I FONT 1984, p. 52; IBARBURU Y ASURMENDI e. a. 1986, p. 744, 746 and 748–750 with 2 figures (fol. 87v, detail, and 1v, detail); Millenum 1989, p. 188 no 127 (“Anys 1063–1064 … Escriptori de la catedral de Vic”) [MIQUEL DELS SANTS GROS I PUJOL]; GROS I PUJOL 1992, p. 23 with n. 19 and p. 26 with n. 33; MUNDÓ I MARCET 1994, p. 152 (the text is not mentioned); PUIG I FERRETÉ e. a. 1998, p. 145 no 810, p. 148 no 830 and p. 170 no 810 and 830; CARRERO SANTAMARÍA 2000, p. 777 n. 69; GROS I PUJOL 2002, p. 698 with n. 8; ZIMMERMANN 2003, 1, p. 472; ZIMMERMANN 2003, 2, p. 638 and 761; GROS I PUJOL 2006, p. 49–51 no 32 (with figure of fol. 4v/5r); PLANAS I BADENAS 2013, p. 18 sq. with n. 60 (without mentioning the text) and p. 20; ORDEIG I MATA 2017, p. 213 sq. no 10 sq. with n. 184 and 186 and 216; ORDEIG I MATA 2018, p. 67 sq. no 10 sq. with n. 187 and 189 and p. 71; ALTURO I PERUCHO/ALAIX I GIMBERT 2019, p. 138 (the text is not mentioned); MASNOU I PRATDESABA 2022, p. 248; VONES-LIEBENSTEIN 2023a, p. 193 with n. 117. The manuscript is not mentioned by WERMINGHOFF 1906; SCHIEFFER 1976; MORDEK 1995a, p. 1052. JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1994, p. 141 sq. and 231 mention no manuscripts.