Vienna, Osterreichische Natioonalbibliothek 751 Letters of Boniface, Lul, etc.; Acts, Catholic Epistles (partial); biblical glossaries; Ps.-Augustinian sermons, etc.; Theodulf of Orleans, "Capitula ad presbyteros;' concilia, charms
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485. Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek 751
Letters of Boniface, Lul, etc.; Acts, Catholic Epistles (partial);
biblical glossaries; Ps.-Augustinian sermons, etc.;
Theodulf of Orleans, "Capitula ad presbyteros;'
concilia, charms
[Ker App. 37, Gneuss - ]
HISTORY: A composite manuscript of five parts of diverse origins (Mainz and Cologne). Part 1 is a collection of the letters of Boniface and others, copied at Mainz in the first half or middle of the 9c (Bischoff 1998-2014: 3.482, no. 7155, gives the date as "IX. Jh., 1.(/2) Viertel und 2. Viertel") by a scribe with access to an archive of Boniface's correspondent Lui ( on this part see especially Unterkircher 1971, whose findings are summarized below, and Bischoff 1966-816: 3.107; Emerton 1940 translates most of the letters, on which see Orchard 2002 and Fell 1990). According to Unterkircher (1971: 13) the condition of the last quire of Part 1 suggests that some considerable time elapsed before Parts 2-5 were added. According to Bischoff (1998-2014: 3.483, no. 7156), Part 2 was written in Mainz in the second quarter of the 9c. Part 3 is dated to the middle of the 9c by Hermann ( 1923: 123) and to the first half of the 9c by Bischoff (1966-816: 3.107); but in his catalogue of 9c manuscripts Bischoff (1998-2014: 3.483) does not assign this part a number, indicating that it is not 9c. Part 4, according to Bischoff (1998-2014: 3.483, no. 7157), was probably also written in Mainz in the fourth quarter of the 9c (parts after 871). Part 5 is early 10c according to Bischoff (1966-816: 3.107; cf. Bischoff 1998-2014: 3.483). According to Menhardt 1960-61: 1.45, there are four hands in Part 5 (ff. 173v-180v; 18lr-187v; 188r; 188v). Part 3 is possibly identical with an entry in a Cologne booklist of 833: ''Actus apostolorum. et septem epistolas canonicas. apocalipsin. et epistolas pauli in uno codice" (Decker 1895: 224, no. 12; Kruse 1976: 292). An inscription on f. 166v indicates that Part 4 was written in 871 at Cologne.