Salzburg, Salzburg Museum 2163 Creed, Lectionary, etc., Eucherius, "Formulae spiritalis intellegentiae" (incomplete), extracts and notes, incl. Latin-OE trinitarian terms, glosses on conciliar canons; Dionysio-Hadriana canonical collection (abridgement)

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463. Salzburg, Salzburg Museum 2163

Creed, Lectionary, etc., Eucherius, "Formulae spiritalis

intellegentiae" (incomplete), extracts and notes, incl.

Latin-OE trinitarian terms, glosses on conciliar canons;

Dionysio-Hadriana canonical collection (abridgement)

[Ker App. 32; Gneuss -]

HISTORY: An unbound and now unsewn collection, the remains of at least two and as many as four distinct manuscripts, all apparently dating to the first quarter of the 9c and written in the Salzburg diocese (part perhaps at St. Peter's, see Bischoff 1998-2014: 3.287, no. 5416). According to Bischoff (1980: 73 and 149: no. 138) the copy of Eucherius on ff. 14r-17v and the OHG glosses on ff. 2 lr-23v were probably written by students, and Bischoff would attribute the four quires comprising ff. 1-23 to a school or clerical community rather than an organized scriptorium. Some of the contents ( see nos. 1, 2, and 17) find their closest parallels in manuscripts from Tegernsee. Bischoff dates the manuscript to the early years of the episcopacy of Adalram (821-36). Wright (frothcoming) argues that items 1 and 7 are evidence of contacts with the circle of Alcuin, and that the manuscript's contents would have been in circulation at Salzburg during the episcopacy of Arn (785-821), Alcuin's friend and correspondent. A few OE words occur in item 7, f. 12r/2-10.

The manuscript was found in 1889 in Salzburg Cathedral by choirmaster Johann Peregrin Hupfauf inside a chest or armarium behind the communion altar, and was given by Hupfaufs widow to the Salzburg Museum (then known as the Carolino-Augusteum Museum) that same year (see the unsigned notice in the Museum's Jahresbericht for 1889: 15). The Museum's director, Alexander Petter, lent the manuscript to Willibald Hauthaler, abbot of St. Peter's in Salzburg, who published the first description in 1893 (on Hauthaler see Zaisberger 1982: 344). Hauthaler (1893) stated that the parts of the manuscript when found were sewn in complete disorder, with some parts even upside-down. He foliated it, as found, in pencil, then removed the stitching, cleaned the membrane with water (!), put the quires and leaves in their present order, and then refoliated the manuscript in pen. In an effort to identify the contents of certain faded leaves he also applied an unspecified reagent. The manuscript was reported as lost by Meritt in 1945: 61, no. 72 and by Ker in 1957 (Ker 482), but had been located by 1960, when it was described by Forstner; see also Forstner 1962: 23, 28-30; Czifra and Lorenz (forthcoming). It is now kept in a box together with an offprint of Hauthaler's article, a handwritten copy of Kattenbusch 1893, and a handwritten letter of 1 November 1893 from Ambros Gietl to Hauthaler concerning the extracts from the DionysioHadriana collection of canons.

[Note: The manuscript was scheduled to be restored and cleaned by Christian Moser, conservator of the Salzburg Stadtarchiv, for the exhibition Ars Sacra, 17 Dec. 2010-26 Feb. 2014 <http://www.salzburgmuseum.at/arssacra.html>. According to Dr. Gerhard Plasser, Director of the Salzburg Museum Library (email of2/21/2013) the manuscript was not rebound or refoliated.]