Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 231 Walahfrid Strabo, ''Abbreuiatio in Leviticum"; Walahfrid Strabo (or Hrabanus Maurus?), ''Abbreuiatio in Genesim;' Walahfrid Strabo, ''Abbreuiatio in Exodum"

Abstract

145. Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 231

Walahfrid Strabo, "Abbreuiatio in Leviticum"; Walahfrid

Strabo (or Hrabanus Maurus?), ''Abbreuiatio in Genesim;'

Walahfrid Strabo, "Abbreuiatio in Exodum"

[Ker App. 16; Gneuss - ]

HISTORY: A composite manuscript in two parts (for a description see Bergmann and Stricker 2005: 2.696-98, no. 314). Part 1 (ff. 1-26), containing Walahfrid Strabo's abbreviation of Hrabanus Maurus's commentary (or lectures) on Leviticus, with OE and OHG glosses, was written towards the end of the 10c by several Reichenau scribes, one of which ( on f. lOr) is identical to the hand of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 242, ff. 9v-62v (see Hoffmann 1986: 327 and 346). Part 2 (ff. 27-74), containing abbreviations of Hrabanus Maurus's commentaries on Genesis and Exodus (the latter certainly, the former possibly, by Walahfrid Strabo), was written in the first half of the 10c (Hoffmann 1986: 327, comparing the hands to those of Karlsruhe Aug. perg. 142). Many Insular abbreviations occur in Part 1, fewer in Part 2. Both parts (not yet bound together) were at Reichenau by the 12c, when the ex-libris 'lib<er> augie maioris' was entered on ff. lr and 28r. A 13c inscription referring to Frederick II as Holy Roman Emperor (1220-1250) and King of Sicily (1197-1250) has been added at the top of f. lr. The shelfmark 'P 28' on fol. 27r indicates that the two parts were still separate in the first half of the 15c and must have been combined in the 1457 binding campaign (on which see Preisendanz 1918: 36, 87-95), when Johann Pfuser (abbot from 1464-92) supplied a title-piece listing all three commentaries. In the unpublished 1791 catalogue of Johann Nepomuk Bek (on which see Preisendanz 1918: 79-80, 266-67; with addenda in the 1973 reprint at 267; Hannemann 1974: 164) the manuscript was no. 119, which is sometimes given as the shelfmark in older scholarship. The alternative form of the current shelfmark, Aug. CCXXXI, is due to Martin Gerbert, abbot of St. Blasien, who in 1760 assigned Roman numerals to the parchment manuscripts and arabic numerals to the paper manuscripts. The parchment manuscripts from Reichenau (Augia diues) were assigned the designation "Codices Augienses pergamenei:' ( On the history of the abbey library, see the description of Karlsruhe Aug. perg. 99 (142) above, under "History:') On the history of the binding, see "Cod. Desd' below.

A digital facsimile of Aug. perg. 231 is available at the Badische Landesbibliothek website: <http://digital.blb-karlsruhe.de/blbhs/Handschriften/ content/titleinfo/ 192499>.