Reichenau Chapter Book now Catalogued

Zurich ZB Rh. Hist. 28 has now been catalogued on the website.  It is a chapter book, consisting of monastic rules, legislation, and other texts pertaining to monastic life, bound together for easy reference.

In particular, in contains a copy of Heito of Reichenau's Visio Wettini, and is the earliest manuscript to contain the capitula and preface to that work.

Zurich MS of Adomnán of Iona's De Locis Sanctis, etc., now Catalogued

Ms. Rh. 73 in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich—famous for the diagrams of churches found in its copy of Adomnán's De locis sanctis—has now been described. Besides the Adomnán, the MS also contains the Itinerary of the pilgrim of Piacenza (ps.-Antoninus martyr), a fragmentary copy of Bede's Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings, and an excerpt from a poem of Venantius Fortunatus. Reginbert of Reichenau records that the manuscript was given to his monastery by Walafrid Strabo.

New Manuscripts have Arrived

A number of new manuscripts have appeared on the website!  How exciting.  They now have minimal catalogue information, and are as follows:


Einsiedeln SB ms. 182 (Alcuin, In epistulam Pauli ad Titum, etc.; Amalarius, etc.)
Geneva, UB Lat. 37a (Epistolarium)
Paris, BNF Lat 9453 (Evangelary)
Schaffhausen, SB Gen. 1 (Adamnan, Vita Columbae)
Zurich, ZB C 10i (Passionary)
Zurich, ZB C 78 (miscellany, incl. poems, hymns, glossary, medical texts, Theodulf of Orleans, etc).
Zurich, ZB C 129 (Liber hermeneumatum; Ps. Seneca, etc.)