Parchment, 40 ff., ca. 33 × 25 cm; France ca. 800-820
The fragment belongs to the group of Bibles produced under the supervision of Theodulf of Orléans in the years around 800. Palaeographical as well textual elements link Theodulf’s Bibles together. Altogether 6 copies have been preserved; two of them are complete, whereas the rest are fragmentary
NKS 1 2° contain a continuous part of the Old Testament: The Book of Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and the beginning of Daniel. The Book of Psalms is annotated in a contemporary hand that witnesses of the philological ambitions of Theodulf and his team. Notes to other texts have been added later in the Middle Ages
NKS 1 2° has been a part of a manuscript that belonged to the Cathedral of Carcassonne. This manuscript was still intact up to ca. 1690 when it was announced that the main part of it had disappeared. It was bequeathed to the Royal Library in 1824 together with other manuscripts collected by D. G. Moldenhawer
Bibl.: Léopold Delisle, Les Bibles de Théodulphe, in: Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes 40, Paris 1879, p. 31. - Léopold Delisle, rec. (Catalogue of ancient manuscripts in the British Museum, part II, London 1884), in: Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes 46, Paris 1885, p. 322. - Samuel Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate pendant les premiers siècles du moyen age, Paris 1893, p. 181 ("fin du IXe ou ... commencement du Xe siècle"). - Ada Adler, D. G. Moldenhawer og hans Haandskriftsamling, København 1917, p. 210-212. - Henri Quentin, Mémoire sur l'établissment du texte de la Vulgate, Rome & Paris 1922 (= Collectanea biblica latina 6), p. 249. - E. Power, The Lost Ninth Century Bible of Carcassonne, in: Biblica, 5, Roma 1924, p. 197-201. - Ellen Jørgensen, Catalogus codicum Latinorum medii ævi Bibliothecæ Regiæ Hafniensis, Hafniæ 1926, p. 7 ("saec. IX/X"). - Sancti Hieronymi Psalterium juxta Hebraeos, éd. critique par Dom Henri de Sainte-Marie, Rome 1954, p. IX, XXXI-XXXIII & passim. - Bonifatius Fischer, Bibelausgaben des frühen Mittelalters, in: Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Freiburg 1985, p. 35-100 (orig. publ. in: Settimane di Studio del centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo X: La Bibbia nell'alto medioevo, Spoleto 1963, p. 519-600). - Bonifatius Fischer, Bibeltext und Bibelreform unter Karl dem Grossen, in: Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Freiburg 1985, p. 101-202 (orig. publ. in: Karl der Grosse, Lebenswerk und Nachleben, II, Düsseldorf 1965, p. 156-216). - Elisabeth Dahlhaus-Berg, Nova antiquitas et antiqua novitas. Typologische Exegese und isidorianisches Geschichtsbild bei Theodulf von Orléans, Köln 1975, p. 53 & passim. - David Ganz in: Richard Gameson (ed.), The Early Medieval Bible, Cambridge 1994, p. 53. - Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen). Teil I: Aachen - Lambach, ed. Birgit Ebersperger, Wiesbaden 1998, p. 412 no. 1989 ("Orléans, IX. Jh., Anfang"). - Erik Petersen, Dominus Pastor Meus. Om Det Kongelige Biblioteks ældste bibelhåndskrift og dets historie, in: Fund og Forskning 43, København 2004, p. 11-42
Erik Petersen