Manuscripts

Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 679

  • s. viii2
  • Continental manuscripts containing Irish, Continental manuscripts containing Irish
  • vellum
Manuscript containing an incomplete copy of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis.
Identifiers
Shelfmark
679
Title
earlier 619
Provenance and related aspects
Date
s. viii2
763 x 790
Origin, provenance
Cambrai? Regarding the exemplar used, Bischoff remarks that “its script betrays a marked Irish influence, and it contains a fragment of the Old Irish homily - both facts point to an origin in Péronne, Perrona Scottorum”.(1)n. 1 Bernhard Bischoff, Manuscripts and libraries in the age of Charlemagne (1994): 27 and see 27 n. 30..
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
Material
vellum
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Sources

Notes

Bernhard Bischoff, Manuscripts and libraries in the age of Charlemagne (1994): 27 and see 27 n. 30..

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

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Secondary sources (select)

Lowe, E. A., Codices Latini antiquiores: a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part 6: France. Abbeville – Valenciennes, Codices Latini Antiquiores, 6, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
[id. 741.]
Muzerelle, Denis, Guy Lanoë, and Monique Peyrafort, Manuscrits datés des bibliothèques de France, vol. 1: Cambrai, Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2000. xxvi + 330 pp.
87
Kéry, Lotte, Canonical collections of the early Middle Ages (ca. 400–1140): a bibliographical guide to the manuscripts and literature, History of Medieval Canon Law, Washington D. C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999.
74
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