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The present classification is only rudimentary. It will ultimately be replaced by a new system with greater care for data concerning each manuscript’s date, origin and provenance.

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5413-5422

• Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5413-5422 8, ff. 125-128

Manuscript leaves of Breton provenance containing fragments of Arator’s De actibus apostolorum.

• s. ix¹

• Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd X 16

Biblical commentaries

• s. x

• Chartres, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 98 (lost)

Manuscript destroyed in WWII. It contained the earliest known version of the Historia Brittonum, referred to as the ‘Chartres’ recension of this text.

• s. x/xi

• Leiden, University Library, MS Vossianus lat. f. 96A = Leiden Leechbook

• s. ix/x

• London, British Library, MS Cotton Otho E xiii

Compilation esp. of canon law and penitentials.

• s. ix^4/4 / s. x^1/4

• London, British Library, MS Egerton 609

• s. ixⁱⁿ

• London, British Library, MS Egerton 2802 = Cartulary of Quimperlé

• s. xii

• London, British Library, MS Royal 5 E xiii

Theological treatises.

• s. ix^2/4 / s. ix^3/4

• Luxembourg, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 89 = an Echternach manuscript

• s. ix²

• Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 448

9th-century Carolingian manuscript (six quires) containing Alcuin’s Ars grammatica and De orthographia as well as Bede’s De schematibus et tropis. The first tract is an acephalous fragment of a tract on Greek terminology for figures of speech.

• s. ix^2/3

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 14096

• Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 14096 part 1, ff. 1-101

• s. viii^ex / s. ixⁱⁿ

• Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 221 (193)

• s. viii

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. 4. 32

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F. 4. 32 1, ff. 1-9 = Oxford Eutyches

9 leaves containing an incomplete copy of Eutyches’ Ars de uerbo

• s. ix

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 42 (4117)

• s. ix–s.xi

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 42

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 42 1, ff. 1r-142r

• s. ix

• Paris, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, MS 791

Manuscript (middle of the 14th century) commissioned by Jean Trisse for the Carmelite convent of Nîmes, of which he was a friar, and copied in Paris by Henri Dahelou, a Breton clerk of the diocese of Quimper. It contains a number of works of Carmelite interest, including some composed by Jean Trisse. The first explicit in the manuscript is followed by a Middle Breton proverb.

• 1360-c.1362
• Henri Dahelou

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS français 22362 (français 22362)

Miscellaneous material relating to Brittany.

• s. xvii

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 3182 = Collectio canonum Fiscannensis

• s. x / s. xi
• Maeloc [scribe]

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5610A

• s. x^ex / s. xiⁱⁿ

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 6400B

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 6400B 7, ff. 249bisr–284v

Compilation of material on computus, which display Insular and specifically Irish affiliations. Incl. two Breton glosses.

• s. x

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 14354-14355

Vincent de Beauvais (d. 1264), Speculum historiale

• c. 1350
• Ivonet Omnes

• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 1587 = Gospels of St Gatien

• s. viii-ix

• Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, MS 34-36

14th-century manuscript, in 3 volumes, of Nicholas of Lyra's Postillae perpetuae in universam S. Scripturam, which is a collection of exegetical commentary notes to the Old and New Testaments. Its third volume is known for containing a two Middle Breton phrases in the hand of the scribe, Henri Bossec.

• s. xiv^ex
• Henri Bossec

• Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 1007

Manuscript (2 vols) written by Le Pelletier for use in compiling his dictionary, which was published, posthumously, in 1752. In addition to the dictionary, it also includes transcripts of Breton-language materials he consulted, including unique copies of some Middle Breton literary texts.

• 1716
• Louis Le Pelletier

• Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 15952

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