Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 327 Gud. Lat.

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 327 Gud. Lat.

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Repository:

Wolfenbüttel (Germany)
Herzog August Bibliothek
Cod. Guelf. 327 Gud. Lat.

Siglum (by Eckhardt 1962): K 60


History:

Origin:
beginning of the 9th century (Eckhardt 1966); beginning of the 9th century, North-East France (Kottje); 1st quarter of the 9th century, North France (Bischoff); 1st quarter of the 9th century, North France (Eckhardt 1962 following Bischoff, Bischoff)


Physical description:


Quires: I2 + 7.IV58 + (III-1)63 // + (V-1)72 + (V-1)81 + 2.III93 + IV101 + (IV+1)110 + (III-1)115. Quire numbers only in the first part (fol. 3r: I … fol. 59r: VIII; letters as quire numbers by a younger hand: fol. 3r: B … fol. 59r: I).
Number: 115 foll.
Size: ca. 151 x 103 mm
Text block: 116 x 77 mm
Lines: 16-18 lines in the first part (up to fol. 63); 15-21 lines in the second part


Script:

Glosses:


Contents:

  • 1r - 63r
    Lex Salica. Fragmentary at the beginning. Incipit: XXVIII De libertis dimissis …
  • 63r - 64r
    INCIPIUNT DIES EGIPTIA[64v]CI IN QUO NULLA OPERA INCIPERE NON DEBES NEC VENA INCEDERE. Incipit: MENSE IAN. intrant observant die primo, exient die VII …
  • 65 - 73, 75 - 81, 90 - 93
    Lex Alamannorum (type A); cut out leaf between foll. 72 and 73 with fragment of an ornamented initial still visible; another cut out leaf between foll. 80 and 81 Stemma
  • 74, 82 - 89, 94 - 115
    Lex Alamannorum (type B); bottom edge corner missing on foll. 98r-99v; fol. 115v library stamp
The first scribe handled the whole first part (Lex Salica: foll. 1-63r) and in the second part the portions of the Lex Alamannorum type B (foll. 74, 82-89 and 94-115). The second hand wrote the sections of Lex Alamannorum in type A (foll. 65-73, 75-81, 90r-91r); excluding the leaves 91v-93v which were written by a third scribe. The magical-medical text about the damned day (dies egiptiaci) is a somewhat later supplement by another hand. According to Bischoff similarities to Bern, Burger Library, Ms. 171 and London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. XIV, foll. 170-224 are detectable. [Karl Ubl]

References:

  • Eckhardt 1962 p. XXIII
  • Lehmann / Eckhardt 1966 p. 13, 15
  • Kottje 1987 p. 366, 372
  • Schott 1988 p. 105
  • Bischoff 1998 p. 114-115
  • Bischoff 2004 p. 109
  • Bischoff 2014 p. 503
  • Faulkner 2016 p. 256
  • Ubl 2017 p. 232, 237, 241
  • Coumert 2023 p. 16, 343, 349-350
  • Otto von Heinemann, Die Handschriften der Herzoglichen Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel. Abth. 1: Die Helmstedter Handschriften Bd. 2, Wolfenbüttel 1884, p. 247.
  • Bernhard Bischoff, Panorama der Handschriftenüberlieferung aus der Zeit Karls des Großen, in: Mittelalterliche Studien. Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte III, Stuttgart 1981, p. 5-38, hier p. 13.

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