Manuscript of Jerome's Letters Catalogued

One of the most valuable and comprehensive manuscripts of Jerome's letters, Karlsruhe Aug. Perg. 105, now has a full description and bibliography on the website.  The manuscript was produced at Lorsch, but later came to Reichenau.

Our description was compiled with the help of the excellent resources on the new Bibliotheca Laureshamensis digital, which also provides a digital copy and description for this manuscript.

Three-volume copy of Cassian's Conferences described

Csg 574-576 is a three-volume set from St. Gall containing one of the classic texts of monastic spirituality, John Cassian's Conlationes. Like so many other manuscripts from St. Gall, these volumes were used in the critical edition of the text they contain. Detailed descriptions of all three manuscripts are now available on the project website.

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.)

Harmut's Copy of Kings now Catalogued

Stuttgart HB II 20, a copy of the Biblical books of Kings, is now catalogued!  It contains a poem indicating it once belonged to Harmut of St Gall.

Martianus Capella Manuscript now Catalogued

Karlsruhe, LB Aug. Perg. 73, which contains Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis and Avianus' Fabulae is now available with full catalogue information on the project site.  Note that the manuscript has suffered water/mold damage to the upper portion of its folios.  Even so it remains one of the most important witnesses to Capella's text.