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The present classification is only rudimentary. It will ultimately be replaced by a new system with greater care for data concerning each manuscript’s date, origin and provenance.

• Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 115

Not yet published.

• s. xiv/xv

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5413-5422

• Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5413-5422 8, ff. 125-128

Manuscript leaves of Breton provenance containing fragments of Arator’s De actibus apostolorum.

• s. ix¹

• Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd X 16

Biblical commentaries

• s. x

• Chartres, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 98 (lost)

Manuscript destroyed in WWII. It contained the earliest known version of the Historia Brittonum, referred to as the ‘Chartres’ recension of this text.

• s. x/xi

• Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS Thott 239 2°

Not yet published.

Fragment (10 folia) of a liturgical manuscript from the monastery of Landévennec, preserving some chronological tables and part of a calendar (January–August).

• s. x

• Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 448

Not yet published.

9th-century Carolingian manuscript (six quires) containing Alcuin’s Ars grammatica and De orthographia as well as Bede’s De schematibus et tropis. The first tract is an acephalous fragment of a tract on Greek terminology for figures of speech.

• s. ix^2/3

• Leiden, University Library, MS VLF 96A = Leiden Leechbook

• s. ix/x

• London, British Library, MS Additional 9381 = Bodmin/St Petroc Gospels

Not yet published.

• s. ix^4/4–xi^1/4

• London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho E xiii

Compilation esp. of canon law and penitentials.

• s. ix^4/4/x^1/4

• London, British Library, MS Egerton 609 = Gospels of Marmoutier / Egerton Gospels

• s. ixⁱⁿ

• London, British Library, MS Egerton 2802 = Cartulary of Quimperlé

Not yet published.

• s. xii

• London, British Library, MS Royal 5 E xiii

Not yet published.

Theological treatises.

• s. ix^2/4/3/4

• Luxembourg, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 89 = an Echternach manuscript

• s. ix²

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 14096

• Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 14096 part 1, ff. 1-101

• s. viii^ex/ixⁱⁿ

• New York, Public Library, MS MA 115 = Harkness Gospels

Not yet published.

• s. ix²

• Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 221 (193)

• s. viii^ex/ixⁱⁿ
• Iunobrus

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1352

Not yet published.

• s. xvi

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. 4. 32

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. 4. 32 1, ff. 1-9 = Oxford Eutyches

9 leaves containing an incomplete copy of Eutyches’ Ars de uerbo

• s. ix

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 42 (4117)

• s. ix–s.xi

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 42

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 42 1, ff. 1r-142r

• s. ix

• Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, MS 8151

Not yet published.

• s. xviii²

• Paris, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, MS 791

Manuscript (middle of the 14th century) commissioned by Jean Trisse for the Carmelite convent of Nîmes, of which he was a friar, and copied in Paris by Henri Dahelou, a Breton clerk of the diocese of Quimper. It contains a number of works of Carmelite interest, including some composed by Jean Trisse. The first explicit in the manuscript is followed by a Middle Breton proverb.

• 1360-c.1362
• Henri Dahelou

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 5

• s. xvi

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 10

• s. xviii

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS celtique 11

• s. xix

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