University of Ghent: Historical documents, digital approaches

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Short description of Mons, Bibliothèque Universitaire, 847

Old reference numbers

Mons, Bibliothèque Publique, Wins 4
Mons, Bibliothèque Universitaire de Mons-Hainaut, 847

Place of production, date

Produced by a scribe from the Benedictine monastery of St.-Ghislain under Abbot Hildebrand (1024-ca. 1050). It seems likely that the codex was written in (or very shortly after) 1024. The codex was part of a large-scale project to produce more hagiographical manuscripts for the library of St.-Ghislain, and involved the work of multiple scribes who traveled to various Benedictine monasteries for their exemplars. This scribe worked in the libraries of Marchiennes and St.-Vaast.

Catalogue

In the eleventh-century catalogue from St.-Ghislain, the manuscript was labeled LLL.

Genre

Legendary

Scriptum	Folios	Title in Ms	Saint
1	1r–2r	Sermo in natale beati Remigii pontificis	Remigius (Remedius) ep. Remensis
2	2r–4r	Vita eiusdem sancti viri	Remigius (Remedius) ep. Remensis
3	4r–10r	Suscepti operis et quomodo vir dei sanctus Vedastus regi Lothuuio adiunctus esset	Vedastes (al. Vedastus) ep. Atrebatensis
4	10r–23v	Vita sanctae Rictrudis	Rictrudis abb. Marchieanensis
5	23v–24v	Responsorio sancti Eusebii archiepiscopi Alexandrinae civitatis de paenitentia . Sancti Eusebii archieepiscopi Alexandrinae denis qui in longa iaceni infirmitate	Brigida v. Kildariae in Hibernia
6	25r–26r		Brigida v. Kildariae in Hibernia
7	26v	[charter, dated to 1165, dealing with the monasteries monetary issues]
8	27r	[sermo de sancto Vincentio martyre]	[Vincentius, unidentified]
9	27r–28r	Sermo ut supra eiusdem sancti	[Vincentius, unidentified]
10	28r–32r	Apologia temeritatis + Lectiones in commemoratione et transitu sancti Ionati confessoris, qui celebratur kalendis Augusti + Qualiter elevatium sit corpus sci Ionati	Ionatus ab. Marchianensis
11	32r–32v	Passio sancti Calisti papae et martyris, quae celebratur II idus Octobris	Callistus papa, Calepodius presb. et soc. mm. Romae
12	33r–34r	[Passio sanctorum Bonifacii diaconi, Servii subdiaconi, Rustici subdiaconi, Liberati abbatis, Rogati monachi, Septimi monachi et Maximi pueri]	Liberatus ab., Bonifatius diac. et soc. mm. Carthagine
13	34r–58r	Vita beati Germani Parisiacensis episcopi, quae celebratur V kal. Iunii	Germanus ep. Parisiensis
14	58r–70r		Germanus ep. Parisiensis
15	70v–77r	Vita vel conversatio beati Vin…ntii cnfessoris Christi qui a de nitoribus vocatus est Madelgarius + Pauca et innumerabilia miracula que divinitatis Christi pietas post obitum sanctiisimi Vincentii …	Vincentius seu Madelgarius conf. Sonegiensis
16	77v	Actus sancti Silvestri papae urbis Romae cuius caelebratur festivitas pridie Kl Ianuarii	Silvester papa
17	78r–85r		Veronus conf. cultus Lembecae et Montibus Hannoniae
18	85r–87v	Vita sancti Symeonis servidi. Cum discipulo suo nomine Antonino, quae est nonas Ianuarii	Symeon stylita senior

Dimensions

Folio	270*184 mm
Writing area	201*125 mm
Lines per page	33
Words per page	255

Codicology

Probably a monomerous codex, but in very bad condition and mutilated. Many folios are missing (especially between 25v-40v and 72v-80v). The writing on the last folios get progressively smaller to fit the text to the quire. The binding is modern.

Quires	1-8, 9-16, 17-24, 25-26, 27-32, 33-40, 41-48, 49-56, 57-64, 65-72, 73-77 (loose leaves), 78-80 (loose leaves), 81-87
Signatures	Signatures: 8v (VII), 16v (VIII), 24v (VIIII), 40v (XVIII), 48v (XVIIII), 56v (XX), 64v (XXI), 72v (XXII), 80v (XXVI)
Catchwords	are present (a.o. 8v, 16v), but seem to be added in a younger hand.