Single leaf from a Homiliary by either Haimo of Halberstadt or Haimo of Auxerre, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [probably Italy, tenth century (perhaps first half or mid century)] Single leaf, with margins trimmed and losses of just the outer edges of a few letters from outer edge of one column, remains of double column of 28 lines in a large and regular late Carolingian hand, with tongued 'e' and occasional use of et-ligature integrally within words, pronounced grain pattern on reverse, recovered from binding and hence with spots, stains, folds, small holes and damage to edges in places, overall fair and presentable condition, 305 by 205mm. Provenance: 1. Bernard M. Rosenthal (1920-2017), noted bookseller and connoisseur of early manuscript fragments, this from his private collection (his I/194; and with copy of cataloguing by the late Prof. Marvin Colker for Rosenthal). 2. Bernard Quaritch, their cat. 1088, Bookhands of the Middle Ages III (1988), no. 59, but then two leaves, sold to a collector in Queensland, Australia. 3. Acquired in 2015 from the Australian trade. Text: A fine late-Carolingian leaf, written within a century of the death of the author. This homilary was one of the fundamental collections of homilies and preaching materials known to the Carolingian world. However, while the manuscripts agree that it was the work of a Haimo, this could be either Haimo of Halberstadt (d. 853), who was a monk at Fulda alongside Hrabanus Maurus, Hrabanus' fellow student at Tours under Alcuin of York, and then the bishop of Halberstadt, or Haimo of Auxerre (fl. 840-75), who appears to have studied with the Irish grammarian Murethach and was for a time the abbot of the monastery of Sasceium (Cessy-les-Bois), and who taught at the school of the Benedictine house of Saint-Germain at Auxerre and certainly was the author of many sermons and commentaries on the Song of Songs, Revelations, and the Minor Prophets (see E. Jeauneau, 'Les écoles de Laon et d'Auxerre au IXe siècle', in La scuola nell'Occidente latino dell'alto medio evo, 1972, II:495-522). In 1907 E. Riggenbach demonstrated that the commentaries attributed in the Patrologia Latina to Haimo of Halberstadt were actually the work of Haimo of Auxerre (Die ältesten lateinischen Kommentare zum Hebräerbrief), and since then many of the homilies also there have been tentatively reattributed to him.
Single leaf from a Homiliary by either Haimo of Halberstadt or Haimo of Auxerre, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [probably Italy, tenth century (perhaps first half or mid century)] Single leaf, with margins trimmed and losses of just the outer edges of a few letters from outer edge of one column, remains of double column of 28 lines in a large and regular late Carolingian hand, with tongued 'e' and occasional use of et-ligature integrally within words, pronounced grain pattern on reverse, recovered from binding and hence with spots, stains, folds, small holes and damage to edges in places, overall fair and presentable condition, 305 by 205mm. Provenance: 1. Bernard M. Rosenthal (1920-2017), noted bookseller and connoisseur of early manuscript fragments, this from his private collection (his I/194; and with copy of cataloguing by the late Prof. Marvin Colker for Rosenthal). 2. Bernard Quaritch, their cat. 1088, Bookhands of the Middle Ages III (1988), no. 59, but then two leaves, sold to a collector in Queensland, Australia. 3. Acquired in 2015 from the Australian trade. Text: A fine late-Carolingian leaf, written within a century of the death of the author. This homilary was one of the fundamental collections of homilies and preaching materials known to the Carolingian world. However, while the manuscripts agree that it was the work of a Haimo, this could be either Haimo of Halberstadt (d. 853), who was a monk at Fulda alongside Hrabanus Maurus, Hrabanus' fellow student at Tours under Alcuin of York, and then the bishop of Halberstadt, or Haimo of Auxerre (fl. 840-75), who appears to have studied with the Irish grammarian Murethach and was for a time the abbot of the monastery of Sasceium (Cessy-les-Bois), and who taught at the school of the Benedictine house of Saint-Germain at Auxerre and certainly was the author of many sermons and commentaries on the Song of Songs, Revelations, and the Minor Prophets (see E. Jeauneau, 'Les écoles de Laon et d'Auxerre au IXe siècle', in La scuola nell'Occidente latino dell'alto medio evo, 1972, II:495-522). In 1907 E. Riggenbach demonstrated that the commentaries attributed in the Patrologia Latina to Haimo of Halberstadt were actually the work of Haimo of Auxerre (Die ältesten lateinischen Kommentare zum Hebräerbrief), and since then many of the homilies also there have been tentatively reattributed to him.
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