Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 2839–43

Images: KBR

Other designation(s): none

Physical description: parchment, 203 × 135 mm, 108 fols., 1 col.

Language: Latin

Date: ca. 830

Provenance: Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Contents:

Epistles of Paul and Seneca (fols. 66v–74r), with Alcuin’s dedicatory poem to Charlemagne

Additional contents: pastoral and theological works; sermons; Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi.

Catalogs and studies:

Barlow, Claude W. Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam quae vocantur. Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome 10. Horn, Austria: American Academy in Rome, 1938 (pp. 8–9).

Bischoff,  B. Katalog der festlandischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), Vol. 1: Aachen-Lambach. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998 (p. 152, no. 706).

Hen, Yitzhak. “Alcuin, Seneca and the Brahmins of India.” Pages 148–61 in Religious Franks: Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong. Edited by Rob Meens et al. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.

Van den Gheyn, J. Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, Vol. 2. Brussels: Henri Lamertin, 1902 (no. 1101, p. 135).

Other online databases: Biblissima

Entry created by Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College, 6 July 2026.