Fragm. 2798: Ekkehardus Uraugiensis, Chronicon Universale

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Fragm. 2798: Ekkehardus Uraugiensis, Chronicon Universale

[olim kps. 19a]

Parchment, 1f., c. 40 × 26 cm; saec. XIII

The fragment contains the text "vvariorum ei occurrit cum ualido ... romam ueniens mirifico appara" (cf. MGH, Scriptores, VI, 1844, p. 188-189; PL, 154, 1881, col. 920C-922C):

recto: "vvariorum ei occurrit cum ualido ... si nossem uerbis uirtutem. uel audaci"

verso: "am animis uestris augeri ... ipse vero romam ueniens mirifico appara"

Long quotations in the text has mislead a librarian to identify the fragment as part of Widukindus Corbeius, Res gestæ Saxonicæ, lib. III (cf. note on the verso)

The fragment has been used as cover of accounts from an unknown locality for the years 1598-1999

Bibl.: Paul Lehmann, Skandinavische Reisefrüchte, NF, 2. Nachlese 3, in: Nordisk Tidskrift för Bok- och Biblioteksväsen, 25, 1938, p. 249 ("saec. XIII in.")

Erik Petersen