Frechulf (floruit 825-851)
This manuscript, which was probably produced in Reims, consists of two parts that contain only the scholia on Lucan, but not the actual text. The first part (up to f. 125v) contains the scholia known as the Commenta Bernensia, which are preserved only in this codex. The text is interspersed with 21 simple schemata in color, geographic representations as well as plans of cities and of battles. The second, unfortunately incomplete part contains a collection of non-illustrated glosses (Adnotationes) for books 1 to 4 as well as 9 and 10 (beginning). As becomes clear from the content, the original plan of merging the Commenta and the Adnotationes into a single text was apparently abandoned in the middle of the first book of the Commenta, and the Adnotationes were copied separately in the last third of the manuscript (from f. 125v).
Online Since: 03/29/2019
- Frechulf: Chronicon [Fragment] (128v) Found in: Standard description
- Frechulf: Historiae I,7,7–9. (125v–128v)
Incipit: Crassus itaque in consolatu collega Pompeii provinciam sorditus in Parthos
Explicit: ac subselliorum cremavit. Sed quae praemissimus, dum apud Romanos gererentur, interim in Judaea acta sunt quae sequntur.
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- Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Frechulf (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus (Author) | Ps. Vacca (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Carolingian world history written by Bishops Frechulf of Lisieux in the oldest surviving copy, produced in 825/830. Written in the scriptorum of Lisieux, this item had already been obtained by the monastery of St. Gall by 850/860.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Frechulf: Weltchronik Found in: Standard description
- Frechulf: Liber Historiarum (1-517) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Frechulf (Author) | Tschudi, Aegidius (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description