Links being revised & viewing enhancements

The project website is undergoing changes, meaning that the links previously posted here to St Gall / Reichenau manuscripts are broken at the moment.  We hope to have them fixed soon.

In the meantime, take a look at the manuscript browsing enhancements on the project site!

UPDATE: the links have been fixed!

Lex Alamannorum manuscript now catalogued

Full catalogue information (i.e. metadata) is now available for Wolfenbüttel, H.A.B. Cod. Guelf. 513 Helmst, containing the seventh-century Lex Alamannorum, or 'Law of the Alamans'.  The manuscript may originate from the palace scriptorium of Pippin, Charlemagne's son and King of Italy until 810.


The images currently on the project website are placeholders, which will soon link directly to the Wolfenbüttel HAB.  At the moment, the full-resolution images can be found at the Wolfenbüttel HAB website.

Wolfenbüttel HAB Cod. Guelf. 254 Helmst now catalogued

This manuscript, dated c. 825, contains the only manuscript of ten letters of pope Leo III (795-816) to Charlemagne, as well as a polyptych known as the Brevium exempla, and the famous Capitulare de Villis, a document detailing the administration of Carolingian royal estates.

The images currently on the project website are placeholders, which will soon link directly to the Wolfenbüttel HAB.  At the moment, the full-resolution images can be found at the Wolfenbüttel HAB website.

Manuscript Viewer now Larger

Manuscripts on the website should be much easier to use now that our manuscript-viewer has been made larger, thanks to U.C.L.A.'s digital library team.

Manuscript of Josephus' Bellum Judaicum now catalogued

Full catalogue information is now available for the Latin translation of Josephus' Jewish War in St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 627.  The Latin text it provides - translated from Greek probably by Rufinus - was last printed in 1524, and has never received a critical edition.

Fredegar Manuscript now Catalogued

Full catalogue information (i.e. metadata) is now available for Vienna, Ö.N.B. Cod. Lat. 482, a Reichenau (saec. VIII-IX) manuscript of the famous 'Chronicle of Fredegar'.  It contains only the first 3 books (of 4) of this work.

The manuscript also contains a short fragment of Hilarianus' De Cursu Temporum on ff. 59v-61r, though the manuscript used to contain the whole text before the loss of two quires between current quires VIII and IX.

Finally, the final written folio (f. 87) contains part of an Old High German glossary known as the 'Samanunga'.

Ambrosiaster's commentaries on Paul's letters

Csg 101 and 330 are now available with complete metadata. They contain a complete copy of Ambrosiaster's commentaries on Paul's letters (except Hebrews). These commentaries are the first complete Latin commentaries on the letters and the author came to be known as Ambrosiaster due to the common attribution of the texts to Ambrose, bishop of Milan.

Csg 623: Historia of Popeius Trogus/Justinus Junianus

Csg 623 is now available with complete metadata. This manuscript also includes a meta-poem in Old High German on p. 209:

Chuomo kiscreib filo chumor kipeit.

"Tedious to write but even more tedious to tarry."

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