Manuscripts

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 1247 Pauline Epistles, with commentary

  • Latin
  • 1079
  • Continental manuscripts
  • vellum
A copy of the Pauline epistles, with ample commentary supplied in the margins.
Identifiers
Location
Collection: Western manuscripts: Codices 1–15500
Shelfmark
1247
Classification
Theo., 287
Type
Pauline Epistles
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
1079
1079. According to the colophon, Marianus wrote between 23 March and 17 May of that year.
Hands, scribes
Hands indexed:
Hand (Muredach macc Robartaig)

In the colophon to the Pauline epistles, Marianus writes his name in Irish: Muredach macc Robartaig.

Marianus Scottus of RegensburgMarianus Scottus of Regensburg
(d. 1080 x 1083)
Marianus of Ratisbon, Muiredach mac Robartaig
Irish scribe, who founded the Irish monastic community at Regensburg (Ratisbon) in Bavaria, the first of the Schottenklöster to be founded in southern Germany.
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Codicological information
Material
vellum

Sources

Primary sources This section typically includes references to diplomatic editions, facsimiles and photographic reproductions, notably digital image archives, of at least a major portion of the manuscript. For editions of individual texts, see their separate entries.

[dig. img.] ÖNB: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Online, ...–present. URL: <http://www.onb.ac.at>.

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, P. A., “The origins of the Irish monastic tradition at Ratisbon (Regensburg)”, Celtica 13 (1980): 58–77.
Hoffmann, Hartmut, “Irische Schreiber in Deutschland im 11. Jahrhundert”, Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 59 (2003): 97–120.
DigiZeitschriften: <link>
109–110
Tabulae codicum manu scriptorum praeter graecos et orientales in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi asservatorum, 11 vols, Vienna, 1864–1912.
Manuscripta-mediaevalia.de: <link>
Vol. 1, 209 direct link
Reeves, William, and Charles P. Mac Donnell [quoted], “On Marianus Scotus, of Ratisbon”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 7 (1857–1861): 290–301.
295 An early, brief description, here by Charles P. Mac Donnell (who describes another manuscript at Vienna’s Imperial Library in the same journal volume).
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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January 2014, last updated: December 2022