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Latin: Augusta Suessionum, Suessonae

Part of region: France

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10 manuscripts.    
MIrA ID City Library Shelfmark/section Contents Script Dating Origin Categories Images
43BambergStaatsbibliothekPh.2(1) (HJ.IV.5)Eriugena, Peri physeon (lib. 1–3)Caroline minuscule (Soissons style)IX 3/4Circle of Eriugena; presumably Soissons.Sb Link to images available
45BerlinStaatsbibliothek Preussischer KulturbesitzPhillipps 1708 (Rose 51)Claudius Taurinensis, In evangelium MathhaeiCaroline minusculeIX 3/3SoissonsM
56KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 132 [palimpsest new] (Karlsruhe Priscian)PriscianIrish minusculeIX 2/4Soissons/NE FranceS V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
60KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 167 [palimpsest new] (Karlsruhe Bede)Computistica; Bede, De natura rerum, De temporum rationeIrish minusculeIX 1/2NE France? (Soissons?) Ireland?Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
70KarlsruheBadische LandesbibliothekAug. perg. 195 [palimpsest new]Augustine, SoliloquiaIrish minuscule (& Half-Uncial)IX 1/2NE France? (Soissons?) Ireland?Or S V Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
250LaonBibliothèque municipale37Haimo of Auxerre, Commentarius in IsaiamCaroline minusculeIX 3/4SoissonsSb
292MunichBayerische StaatsbibliothekClm 14171Augustine, Sermones de verbis domini et apostoliCaroline minusculeIX 3/4SoissonsSb Link to images availableEmbedded IIIF images available
38ParisBibliothèque Mazarine561 (1025)
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Maximus Confessor, Ambigua Iohanne Scoto interpreteCaroline minusculeIX 3/4Circle of Eriugena (Soissons)Sb T
1St Paul im LavanttalArchiv des BenediktinerstiftsCod. 86b/1 (Reichenauer Schulheft) Vitae Virgilii (× 2); various notes on Latin texts; Latin hymns; Old Irish poems; Greek–Latin glossaries and grammatical notes Irish minuscule840sNE France (Laon? Soissons?)S V
225Vatican CityBiblioteca Apostolica VaticanaLat. 13501/XXIV (ff 44–45)ComputisticaIrish minusculeIXIreland? NE France? (Soissons?) Or S V Embedded IIIF images available

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Manuscript dates (approx.)

50060070080090002468107 MSS1 MSS2 MSS

Page sizes

Data available for 9 manuscripts (90% of this list).
Height range: 225–307 mm (average 267 mm). Width range: 155–250 mm (average 208 mm).
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Folio count

Data available for 10 manuscripts (100% of this list). Range of folio numbers: 2–242 (average 131).
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