Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Can.4

Library	Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek
Shelfmark	Msc.Can.4
Olim shelfmark	P.I.8
Century	saec. X/XI
Century 2	saec. XI
Provenance	Bamberg cathedral
European region of origin	Northern Italy
Biblissima QID	Q252631
Collection	Pseudoisidore A2
Digital Images	zendsbb.digitale-sammlungen.de
Author	Christof Rolker

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The composite manuscript contains the Constitum Constantini in part I (Italian, ca. 1000) and the A2 version of Pseudoisidore in part II (Italian, early eleventh century); later hands (saec. XI^2/4 or XI^3/4) have made additions on fol. 146v-149r. If these additions are Italian too, the codex cannot have been gifted to Bamberg by Henry II as is commonly assumed. A list of the archbishops of Milan in pt. I and Fraterne mortis (JL †6613a; among the late additions) links the manuscript to this province.

Note on fol. 17r (image turned 90° here)

According to a marginal note fol. 17r (saec. XI, partly damaged), the Pseudoisidore part was bought by a bishop named Anselm: Istum librum sibi adquisiuit Anselmus episcopus. Hoffmann tought it possible that this referred to Anselm I or II of Lucca or Anselm II of Aosta. As he rightly pointed out, Archbishop Anselm of Milan would likely not have referred to himself as episcopus only.

Literature

Hoffmann, Bamberger Handschriften pp. 121-122. – Kéry, Collections p. 100. – Suckale-Redlefsen, Illuminierte Handschriften I,1 pp. 59-61.