Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f. 28

Images: Virtuelle Bibliothek Würzburg

Other shelfmark(s): none

Physical description: parchment, 262 × 180 mm, 99 fols., 1 col.

Language: Latin

Date: 9th cent.

Provenance: Bavaria?

Contents:

Apocalypse of Thomas (fols. 57r–58v)

(Apocryphal) Epistle of Titus (fols. 84r–93v)

Additional contents: Thirty-seven sermons, including twenty-seven by Caesarius of Arles, three by or attributed to Augustine, two by Jerome, two by John Chrysostom, and a few by unknown authors (some composites); Passio Sancti Christophori Martyris (fols. 96r–99v). The ninth-century binding contains fragments from an eighth-century copy of Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis, written in an Anglo-Saxon script.

Catalogs:

Lowe, E. A. Codices Latini Antiquiores: A Palaeo-graphical Guide to Latin Manuscripts Prior to the Ninth Century. 11 vols. and Supplement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934–1971 (9.1408).

Lapidge, Michael. The Anglo-Saxon Library. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006 (p. 162, no. 69).

Thurn, Hans. Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg. Vol. 3.1. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1984 (pp. 19–21).

Other online databases: Trismegistos; ELM

Entry created by Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 2 August 2018.