List of manuscripts

This site documents all known manuscripts of all collections covered in the Clavis Wiki. It is still mainly a list of copies of pre-Gratian medieval collections, but at least for the early period is it is complete in the sense that all manuscripts mentioned in any of the following works are included:

• Fowler-Magerl, Clavis canonum (2005) as found here. To integrate these manuscripts, a list was compiled semi-automatically from the manuscript index of that book. See List of manuscripts in Fowler-Magerl for the resulting list.
• Kéry, Canonical collection (1999) as found [[1]]. A similar list was created based on the mss index of Kéry's 1999 manual. As the complete list (over 1300 mss) seemed to create issues, it was split into four lists, for which see here (Admont to Huesca, 286 mss), here (Ivrea to Palermo, 324 mss), here (Paris to Valère, 397 mss), and here (Vatican to Zwettl, 303 mss).
• Maassen, Geschichte (1870) as found here. Reading his account of the collections, all manuscripts he mentioned were noted and matched with the manuscripts already mentioned in the Wiki. As of summer 2024, this process is largely finished.
• We have also taken into account the manuscripts which Elliot based his transcriptions on (as found here); for the list, see here

Note that the individual lists may differ in how they cite some manuscripts; only the complete list has been standardized (spelling of place names, library names, shelfmarks). Considerable efforts have been taken to delete doublets. As far as possible, erroneous references have been corrected. In the case of Maassen in particular, the modern home and shelf-mark of the respective manuscripts was identified, not always an easy task.

Our aim is that every single one of these manuscripts will have its own description as part of this Clavis Wiki. In the long run, therefore, the Category:Manuscript effectively will replace this list.

As lists with more than 1000 items seem to create issues, our complete list was also broken down into four lists. All in all, more than 1500 manuscripts are listed, mostly extant codices but also a small number of lost manuscripts, fragments, and multi-volume manuscripts. The list consists of these four parts:

• List of manuscripts part 1 (place names A to H)
• List of manuscripts part 2 (place names I to O)
• List of manuscripts part 3 (place names P to R)
• List of manuscripts part 4 (place names S to Z)