GKS 1943 4°: Leges. Formulae. Orationes. Capitularia

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GKS 1943 4°: Leges. Formulae. Orationes. Capitularia

Parchment, 97 ff. (1-92 + 92bis + 93-96), ca. 24 × 15 cm; 9th century

According to Bernhard Bischoff the manuscript was once part of the same codex as GKS 1335 4°. The contents of the two manuscripts may not support this hypothesis, but layout and palaeographaphy do suggest that they were made in the same scriptorium. As to the origin of the two manuscripts Bischoff suggest “Östliches Frankreich (?)”; he dates them to “IX. Jh., Ende”

The manuscript once belonged to Friedrich Lindenbrog (1573-1648), notes written by whom are found in GKS 1943 4° as well as in GKS 1335 4°. Lindenbrog seems to have made several manuscripts that he studied or saw in monasteries during a trip to Paris his own. Most of his medieval manuscripts were given to the library of Gottorp Castle in Schleswig, the manuscripts of which were transferred to Copenhagen in 1735. In the inventories of the collection at Gottorp from before the transfer the manuscripts are recorded as two individual units

1 leaf between f. 92 and 93 was left unnumbered in the modern foliation (counted here as 92 bis)

Bibl.: Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Copenhagen 1926, p. 274f. - Eva Horváth, Friedrich Lindenbruch: Späthumanist und Handschriftensammler des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Hamburger Bibliotheks- und Gelehrtengeschichte, Hamburg 1988 [dissertation, microfiche], p. 219. - Hubert Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium regum Francorum manuscripta. Überlieferung und Traditionszusammenhang der fränkischen Herrschererlasse, München 1995, p. X, 192-195, 423. - Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen). Teil I: Aachen - Lambach, ed. Birgit Ebersperger, Wiesbaden 1998, p. 412 no. 1985

Erik Petersen