MIrA 223: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. Lat. 235 (ff 4–29)

Stable URL: http://mira.ie/223
Or* Origin: Insular (Ireland?)
S* Script: Insular (Irish?)

Identifiers

CountryVatican City
LocationVatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
ShelfmarkPal. Lat. 235 (ff 4–29)
MIrA number223

Description

No. of folios26
Page height (mm)300
Page width (mm)225
ScriptInsular minuscule
ContentsPaulinus of Nola, Carmina

History

DatingVIII ex (Lowe), VIII in (Gneuss & Lapidge) (801–800)
OriginIreland or Northumbria (Lowe)

Resources

Catalogue entries/identifiers
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Other resources
  • Brown & Mackey 1988 (facsimile)
  • Story 2003: 261–264

Notes

Carmina 15, 16, 18, 28, 27, 17. Display script (ff 4r, 16v, 20r). Calligraphic flourishes, esp. in column ends and on final page (29v).

Closely related to St Petersburg, National Library of Russia, MS Q.v.XVI.1. Single Old English dry-point gloss on f. 24r. See references in Gneuss & Lapidge on Northumbrian origin.

References

  • Brown, T. J. and T. W. Mackay, Codex Vaticanus Palatinus Latinus 235. An Early Insular Manuscript of Paulinus of Nola ‘Carmina’, Armarium codicum insignium, 4 (Turnhout, 1988).
  • Foundations of Irish Culture, online catalogue, http://foundationsirishculture.ie/ (2013).
  • Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto, 2014).
  • Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini Antiquiores, 12 vols (Oxford, 1934–1971), digitised and updated by Mark Stansbury, Earlier Latin Manuscripts.
  • Story, Joanna, Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750–870 (London, 2003).

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