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Two letters

From a collection of letters

F-az0w

Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex MS 686

Natalie Nitsch, University of Chicago, 2025 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Two letters
Shelfmarks Codex MS 686
Page/Folio Reference Box 1, MS 33
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Western Europe, possibly Germany
Date of Origin 10th century
Script, Hands

Caroline minuscule. 

Original Condition

Height of Written Area 172 mm
Width of Written Area 116 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 54 mm
Number of Lines 24
Ruling Ruled and lined on verso in lead.

Current Condition

Extent 1 parchment leaf
Dimensions 256 x 161 mm
More about the Current Condition

Used in binding. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Rubric and first line of letter on verso in red.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Content Description

      Two letters, evidently from a collection of letters. On recto and first 17 lines of v.a, part of a letter to an unspecificed "princeps" defending a work the letter writer has written; this letter mentions an Archbishop W., possibly Wilchar of Sens (fl. ca. 765-778) or Wolfhar of Rheims (d. 816). Following this letter, beginning of another letter to another "princeps" containing advice in spiritual and practical affairs from an ecclesiastical writer. 
    • Glosses and Additions No glosses or additions.
    • Remarks

      See Lorenz Weinrich's unpublished article, on file in UC SCRC, for debate on identities of letter writer, possibly Alcuin of York, Paulinus of Aquilaea, Hrabanus Maurus, or Dungal. 

History

Provenance

Owned by Sigurd and Gudrun Wandel. Their collection of 68 manuscript fragments was acquired by the University of Chicago in 1926.
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