GKS 2034 4°: Beda, De virtutibus sancti Cuthberti. Libellus cuiusdam sapientis

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GKS 2034 4°: Beda, De virtutibus sancti Cuthberti. Libellus cuiusdam sapientis

Parchment, 18 ff., 20 x 14 cm; England, 10th/11th century

Beda Venerabilis wrote the Vita metrica Cuthberti at the beginning of the 8th century. The text is divided into 46 sections. The folios containing sections 1-12 and verses 1-9 of 13 are missing in this manuscript, the loss equalling one quire of 8 folios. – The manuscript was foliated in Arabic numerals in the Middle Ages. The first folio has the number 9, the last 26. One folio has been misplaced when the manuscript got its present binding. In the medieval foliation it is number 18; its correct location is between f. 9 and 10 in the modern foliation. It contains the text of the vita from section 35 verse 4, to 37, verse 19

Libellus cuiusdam sapientis is ascribed to Columbanus in the incipit and explicit of the manuscript; if this is correct, the author must be the Columbanus Trudonensis of the 9th century, and not (as the scribe probably thought) the great Irish missionary and abbot (c. 543-615)

The manuscript was bound together with the manuscript GKS 1340 4° at least since c. 1200. It once belonged to the abbey of Saint-Victor in Paris, where Friedrich Lindenbrog took it over. Later it went to the library of Gottorp in Schleswig, whose manuscripts were transferred to Copenhagen in 1735

Bibl.: Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Hafniæ 1926, p. 41f. ("sæc. X"). - Paul Lehmann in: Nordisk Tidskrift för Bok och Biblioteksväsen, XXIV 1937, p. 105 (”saec. X”). - N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon, Oxford 1957, p. 141f. no. 100 (“s. X/XI”). - F. C. Robinson in: Speculum 48 1973, p. 453, 459, 461, 464 (n. 62). - Michael Korhammer in: Scriptorium 34 1980 p. 57 („s. X/XI, England“). - H. Gneuss in: Anglo-Saxon England 9 1981 p. 51 (no. 815) (“X/XI”). - Le catalogue de la Bibliothèque de l'Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris de Claude de Grandrue, 1514. Introduction, historique de la bibliothèque par Gilbert Ouy; présentation de l'édition par Véronika Gerz-von Büren. Paris 1983, p. 166 (GG 7). - Eva Horváth, Friedrich Lindenbruch. Späthumanist und Handschriftensammler des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Hamburger Bibliotheks- und Gelehrtengeschichte, Hamburg 1988 [dissertation, microfiche], p. 221f. - Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen). Teil I: Aachen - Lambach, ed. Birgit Ebersperger, Wiesbaden 1998, p. 412 sub no. 1987 (ad GKS 1340 4°). – Gilbert Ouy, Les manuscrits de l’abbaye de Saint-Victor. Catalogue établi sur la base du répertoire de Claude de Grandrue (1514), Paris-Turnhout 1999, tome 2, p. 248 (“Xe-XIe s.”)

Erik Petersen