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Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:4242538
Title	Composite manuscript, four parts (Latin)
Subtitle	1. (ff. 1-2) Letters to Thetbold / Gerbert of Reims, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 3-72) Letters / pope Gregory the Great. - And other part(s), VLQ 17
Content	Part 1 contains: (f. 1r) Epistula ad Thetboldum / Gerbert of Reims (pope Sylvester II). Fragment. - (ff. 1v-2r) De 'in' prepositione explanatio / Godescalc of Orbais. - (f. 2r-v) Vita Gregorii Magni / John the Deacon. Fragment. Part 2 contains: (ff. 3v-71v) Epistulae / pope Gregory the Great. Numbered I-CCLIV. Preceded by a numbered list of correspondents in two colums (3v-5r). - (f. 72r-v) Pen trials: bible verses, neumes, alphabet. Part 3 contains: (ff. 73r-80v) In gloria martyrum / Gregory of Tours. Incomplete (first part: chapters I-XXX). The preceding chapter list in two columns (73r-v) is numbered I-CV. Part 4 contains: (f. 81r) Poetry. - (f. 81v) Commentarius in Genesim / Remigius of Auxerre. Incomplete (only beginning).
Creator/other	Gottschalk (approximately 803-approximately 867) Gregory (approximately 540-604) Gregory (538-594) John (approximately 824-approximately 882) Remigius (c. 841-908) Sylvester (approximately 945-1003) Christina (1626-1689) Petau, Alexandre (-1672) Petau, Paul (1568-1614) Vossius, Isaac (1618-1689) Benedictines of Saint-Mesmin de Micy, male, La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin
Shelfmark	VLQ 17
Subject (topical)	Reading culture manuscripts (documents) artes (MMDC) bible (MMDC) religious texts (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 9th century 10th century
Note	Origin and date (part 2): "Mittleres Frankreich (?), IX. Jh., ca. 2. Drittel", According to Bischoff 2004. De Meyier 1975 suggests Loire region, probably Abbey of Saint-Mesmin de Micy. Script: Part 1 written by three scribes: ff. 1r (A), 1v-2r/9 (B), 2r/11-2v (C). - Part 4: f. 81r contains text from five 12th-century hands, f. 81v text from a 10th-century scribe. Upper right corner of ff. 3-12 missing, with consequent loss of text. Binding: Post-medieval binding. Textual: (f. 81r) Various short poems, added in the 12th century. Incipit of first poem: "Quatuor ut mundus elementis est oriundus...". Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399 Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294 Description (De Meyier 1975): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:109990 Also described by MMDC.
Reference	Bischoff 2004 = B. Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts. Vol. 2 (Wiesbaden 2004), Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), De Meyier 1975 = K.A. de Meyier, Codices Vossiani Latini. Vol. 2. Codices in quarto (Leiden 1975), MMDC = Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections Saenger 1997 = P. Saenger, Space between words: the origins of silent reading. Stanford 1997, Schröder 1980 = I. Schröder, Die westfränkischen Synoden von 888 bis 987 und ihre Überlieferung. München 1980, Senguerdius & 1716 = W. Senguerdius & al., Catalogus librorum tam impressorum quam manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden 1716,
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Part of	Vossius, I. (1618-1689)
Language	Latin
Country	Netherlands
Published/created	France , 10th centuryFrance, central part ; Loire region? ; 9th century, c. 830-860German regions?, 10th century, last quarterGerman regions ; Trier region?, 10th century