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London, British Library, MS Harley 5041 Unit: ff. 79r-100vVita sancti Fursei

  • Latin
  • s. viii2/4/3/4
  • distinct manuscript
  • Continental manuscripts
  • vellum
Merovingian manuscript containing a copy of Vita sancti Fursei, with extracts from prayers or chants in a slightly later hand.
Identifiers
Location
Part of
Type
legendaries
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. viii2/4/3/4
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 8th century.
Origin, provenance
Provenance: France, north-eastFrance, north-east
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
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Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Hand 1 Main hand responsible for writing the Vita. Anonymous.
Hand 2 Somewhat later hand responsible for the additional writing on ff. 99v-100r. Dated to the 8th/9th century by Bischoff (2004).
Hand 3 9th-century hand seen on f. 99r (Bischoff 2004).
Codicological information
UnitCodicological unit. Indicates whether the entry describes a single leaf, a distinct or composite manuscript, etc.
distinct manuscript
Material
vellum
Palaeographical information
Script
Category: pre-Caroline minuscule
pre-Caroline minuscule, Insular-influenced
The list below has been collated from the table of contents, if available on this page,Progress in this area is being made piecemeal. Full and partial tables of contents are available for a small number of manuscripts. and incoming annotations for individual texts (again, if available).Whenever catalogue entries about texts are annotated with information about particular manuscript witnesses, these manuscripts can be queried for the texts that are linked to them.
Continental manuscripts

Sources

See also the parent manuscript for further references.

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] British Library: digitised manuscripts, Online: British Library. URL: <http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts>.
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Secondary sources (select)

Stansbury, Mark [proj. dir.], and David Kelly [proj. dir.], Earlier Latin manuscripts: tools for studying the scripts of the oldest Latin manuscripts, Online: Department of Classics and Moore Institute, NUI Galway, 2016–. URL: <https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/>. 
abstract:
The Earlier Latin Manuscripts Project is a database of manuscripts written in Latin before the year 800 based on the work of E. A. Lowe and his assistants published in Codices Latini Antiquiores. The work for this project was conducted in the Department of Classics and the Moore Institute of the National University of Ireland Galway. Funding for its completion was contributed by both the Moore Institute and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. [...] Data from the database can be accessed in 3 ways, each subject to the license above: # Via the web front-end, accessible using the menu above; # By downloading a .csv file containing some or all of the data. This option is presented at the top of the catalogue page where you can filter and refine the data you would like to download; # By accessing the data via a JSON API (Application Programming Interface). Documentation on accessing data using this method is provided in the Technical Overview Section.
(source: website (November 2016))
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Bischoff, Bernhard, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), ed. Birgit Ebersperger, vol. 2: Laon–Paderborn, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2004.
123 (no. 2486a)
McKitterick, Rosamond, “The diffusion of Insular culture in Neustria between 650 and 850: the implications of the manuscript evidence”, in: Hartmut Atsma (ed.), La Neustrie, les pays au nord de la Loire de 650 à 850: Colloque Historique International, 2 vols, Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke, 1989. Vol. 2: 395–432.
On p.408: “Lowe suggested that Harley 5041, ff. 79-100, a copy of the Vita Sancti Fursei, written in Frankish pre-Caroline minuscule but containing a number of insular abbreviations, could have come from the same atelier, for it has its leaves prepared and ruled on the hair side and arranged in the quire in the same way. Its text, of course, reinforces its insular connection, for Fursey was the first abbot of Péronne and founded Lagny near Paris, and Bischoff thinks the Harley copy of the life was made from an Irish exemplar.”
McKitterick, Rosamond, “The scriptoria of Merovingian Gaul: a survey of the evidence”, in: Howard B. Clarke, and Mary Brennan (eds), Columbanus and Merovingian monasticism, 113, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1981. 173–207.
Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part 2: Great Britain and Ireland, Codices Latini Antiquiores, 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935.
[id. 202.] no. 202a/202b.
web page identifiers
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
April 2020, last updated: June 2023
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