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 Odense Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 196 Homiliary 801-900 Germany, Rhineland? Back pastedown Latin Homily 2,XIX, 12th Sunday after Pentcost Bede Giles, The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, in the Original Latin, Collated with the Manuscripts, and Various Printed Editions, and Accompanied by a New English Translation of the Historical Works, and a Life of the Author., 5:280–81. Front pastedown Latin Homily 4, on the Gospel of Matthew, for the fourth Sunday after the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul. Origen Origenes Werke. Bd. 12.1: Matthäuserklärung. T. 3: Fragmente und Indices, ed. by Erich Klostermann (Leipzig: C. Hinrichs Verlag, 1941), p. 264, l. 30-265, l. 30. Klostermann (p. VIII) notes that the attribution to Origen of four homilies on Matthew preserved only in Latin was already made by Paul the Deacon in the 8th century, but is likely spurious.  Parchment 2 partial leaves311 x 199 mm (Origen) and 312 x 20 mm (Bede)

About one and a half columns of text survive on each fragment, with a few lines likely lost at the bottom of the leaf. The Origen fragment is marked with a faint diamond pattern of triple Streicheisenlinien, suggesting it may have been used as a buffer or underlay for tooling other bindings in the bindery where it was cut up. Both fragments are partially obscured by paper exlibris pasted onto them.  The exlibris of collector Otto Thott (front pastedown) and Herlufsholm Skole (back pastedown) were glued onto the leaves, obscuring a considerable amount of text. 

The difference in scribal hands and ruling could point to this homiliary originally having been a composite manuscript.

 Faint drypoint ruling on the Bede fragment. Both leaves are pricked in the surviving side margin, marking out the lines.

Carolingian minuscule from the German Rhineland area, with pronounced, club-shaped ascenders and sharp descenders. Each leaf was written by a different hand.

 The manuscript was likely written in the Rhineland area based on a comparison with similar homiletic fragments that Bernhard Bischoff assigned to Lorsch (Copenhagen, Royal Library, Fragm. 2801 and Innsbruck, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol, Fragm. 2). The binding was made for Jacob Del Rio (died 1610), abbot of Boudelo Abbey in Flanders. Boudelo was a Cistercian abbey, and the Origen fragment exhibits certain punctuation marks associated with the Cistercian positurae system (namely the punctus flexus to indicate a medium-length pause). Parkes notes that the punctus flexus fell out of favour over the course of the 12th century, so the marks may in fact be older than Boudelo, which was founded around 1200. The manuscript could have been used in a different Cistercian monastery before it came to Boudelo. Description by: Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 Holck, Jakob Povl. Den Gamle Verdens Magi: Bogsamlingen Fra Herlufsholm På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, 2015  Holck, Jakob Povl. ‘Herlufsholm-Samlingen På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek Og Forskningspotentialet–Om Forskellige Fund Af Fragmenter’. Studier i Nordisk, nos 2016–2018 (2022): 5–40.  Parkes, Malcolm Beckwith. Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West. Routledge, 2016.