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lxv V. The text in Germany While Bede's History was spreading through the Loire valley and Northern France in a form derived from M, a separate family of copies was disseminated further east, of which the leading sur vivors are, as we have seen, Wolfenbüttel Weissenburg 34 of the late eighth century, and Würzburg M. p. th. f. 118 of the mid ninth. Other copies on record in the ninth-century catalogues of important libraries should perhaps be classed with them: at Lorsch, at Murbach (where the catalogue-entry takes account of the whole of Bede's list of his own works in v. 24), at the Rei chenau.1 At Fulda, the position is not simple; the extant early
Fulda copy is, as we have seen, of the c-family, but there survives also a single leaf of the early ninth century, now Kassel Landesbibl.
M S. Anhang 19. 5, folio 1, in a hand identified by Professor Bischoff as that of the Fulda scribe Risalah.1 2 3 This could be of the same family as the Weissenburg and Würzburg copies, but the fragment is not long enough for this to be determined. St. G all still keeps the copy that was in its ninth-century catalogue, now
Stiftsbibliothek 247? but this follows so closely on the Weissenburg text with all its early corrections, that it is almost certainly derived from it. Characteristic readings of this family are to be seen in the following later copies:
Augsburg, Bischöfliche Ordinariatsbibi. 43, twelfth century, from Neunkirchen am Brand.4
Bamberg E. Hi. 14 (Hist. 3), eleventh century, in a collection of historical pieces which has been studied by G. Waitz in Archiv ix (1847), 673-703. He considers it to be of Italian origin; and as its nearest relatives (so far as this very summary survey can be trusted) seem to be at Monte Cassino, it may provide the clue to an Italian subdivision of this family.
Brussels, Bibi. Royale 8245-57 (3116), signed and dated 15 Dec. 1489 by Anthony of Bergen-op-Zoom, a scribe from whose hand at least a dozen manuscripts survive; the volume contains a collection
1 M. Manitius, Handschriften antiker Autoren in mittelalterlichen Bibliotheks katalogen (67 Beiheft zum Zentralblatt fü r Bibliotheksivesen, Leipzig, 1935),
P3451 David H. Wright in Anglia, lx xx ii (1964), 117; Mr. Wright generously sent me a photograph.
3 A. Bruckner, Scriptoria medii aevi Helvetica, in (1938), 86.
4 B. Kraft, Handschriften der Bischöfl. Ordinariatsbibi, in Augsburg (1934),
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of historical works on paper and parchment from Korssendonk near Turnhout, a house of Regular Canons of the Windesheim con gregation.
British Museum, Additional 18150, eleventh century, from Sankt Georgenberg, near Schwatz in the Tyrol; this looks like a descen dant of the St. Gall MS.
British Museum, Additional 33371, twelfth century (second half); it was once a fine book, but only twenty-four leaves survive out of 96. These two are Plummer's Ax and A4 (1, pp. c-ciii).
British Museum, Royal 13 B. xviii, fourteenth century, copied from a text of which the quires had been badly dislocated (Plummer, 1, p. ci).
Monte Cassino 177, twelfth century.
Monte Cassino 181, eleventh century; both these are written in Beneventan hands, and Plummer suggests, plausibly enough, that the later will prove to be a copy of the earlier. A collation of book i in MS. 1811 shows that it belongs to this family, and is closer in text to the Bamberg MS. than to any other I have seen.
Paris lot. 5228, written for La Chaise Dieu (Haute-Loire) in the Auvergne, in 1093, the year that Pontius was made abbot, as we learn from verses at the beginning:2 a fine great book.
Paris lat. 522g, eleventh century, from Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne); on the flyleaf, the epitaph of St. Gregory's six disciples from Augustine to Deusdedit.
Paris lat. 5231, late eleventh century, from La Grasse (Aude), in the diocese of Carcassonne.
Paris lat. 5235, fourteenth century, in an expert university hand of Italian type (at the foot of f. 113 in minute letters 'tradantur magistro Laurentio'). It belonged to the Papal library in Avignon,3
. and has marginalia in a fourteenth-century English hand. Removed thence to Peniscola in 1409 by the anti-pope Benedict X III (Petrus de Luna), it passed to the College de Foix at Toulouse, and so to Colbert and the Bibliothéque royale.4
Paris lat. 5237, about 1400, on paper: to judge by other contents, it should come from Cologne.
Schaffhausen, Stadtbibl. min. 66, twelfth century, with a full-page picture of Bede writing under an arched and turreted canopy.5
1 Mr. P. Meyvaert most kindly lent me a microfilm.
2 See the hexameter poem printed by L. Delisle in L e Cabinet des M S S de la Bibl. nat. n (1874), 350.
3 It is no. 329 in the inventory of the library in 1369, no. 344 in 1375 (F.
Ehrle, Historia Bibl. Rom. Pont., 1890, pp. 311, 481); no. 454 in the Peniscola list (below, p. Ixx, n. 2). See also the Catalogus codd. hagiographicorum lat. Paris,
I (1889), 391.
4 Paris lat. 5236 seems not to belong here, nor in the M family.
3 Bruckner, Scriptoria, vi (1952), n o -11 and pi. xlvi.