Extant Manuscripts of Rabanus's De rerum naturis





Complete copies

Angers, Bibliotheque publique, MS 31 (olim 27), s.xv

Arras, Bibliotheque municipale, MS 506 (832), s. xi

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 11, s. xii/xiii

Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd 1.30, s. xiii

Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd 8.13 (Books 11-22)

Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd 13.4 (Books 1-10)

Darmstadt, Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek, MS 416, Heidelberg 1467

El Escorial, Real biblitheca, MS f.I.12, s. xiv

Florence, Bibliotheca Mediceo Laurentiana, Fondo S. Croce, MS Plut. XXXI Sin. Cod. I

Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunterian V.1.3 (366)

Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, MS Augiensis 96 (Books 1-11)

Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibiothek, MS Augiensis 68 (Books 12-22)

Leiden, Bibliothek der Rijksuniversiteit, MS Vossianus lat F5

London, British Library, MS Royal 12.G.xiv, ex St Albans

Montecassiono, Biblioteca dell'Abbazia, cod. 132, 1023

Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Borbon. V.C.46, s.xii

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 746, s. xiii

Oxford, New College, MS 159, s. xiv

Oxford, St John's College, MS 5, s. xii, ex Reading

Oxford, St John's College, MS 88, s. xii, ex Chicester

Oxford, Trinity College, MS 64, s. xiii, ex Gloucester

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat 2420, s. xiv

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat 7608

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat 11684

Paris, Bibliotheque National, MS lat 13411

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat 16879, s. xii

Rheims, Bibliotheque publique, MS 441, s. xii

Rheims, Bibliotheque publique, MS 442, s. xc

Stuttgart, Wurtembergische Landesbibliothek, MS Theol. et philos. 2045, 1457

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Pal. lat. 291, 1425

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat 1149

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Reg. lat 391

Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 121 (olim 113), before 852

Worcester, Cathedral Library, MS F.21

Zurich, Zentralbibliothek, MS Car C.97 (263)


Fragments and Extracts

Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, 20 Cod. 8, foll. 4v-5r; s. xi/xii

Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, 20 Cod. 517, foll. 88v-97v; A.D. 1514

Augsburg, Universitatsbibliothek, Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek, Cod. I.2.2038, foll. 1-2; s. ix3.

Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS lat. fol. 930; s. xiv

Cambridge, St John's College, MS 62, fol. 11; s. xiii

Engelberg, Cod. 90, foll. 160r-166v.

London, British Library, MS Harley 3092; s. x

London, British Library, MS Royal 8.B.xiv, foll. 74-115; s. xiii

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 28294, foll. 1ra-2vb and 170ra-171vb11; s. xiv

Munich, Universitatsbibliothek, Georgianum LXIII (2 folios); s. ix [destroyed during WW II]

New York, Columbia University, MS Plimpton 128; s.xiv

Oxford, Balliol College, MS 190, foll. 45-51; 1460-65.

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat. 1761, foll. 101-105; s. xiii

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat. 2024, foll. 41-42v; s.xi

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat. 2439, fol. 182v; s. xii.

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, MS lat. 17177; s. xii

Stuttgart, Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek, MS Theol. et philos. 20218, foll. 1-43; s. xii.

Troyes, Bibliotheque municipale, MS 1628, foll. 24-27v.

Troyes, Bibliotheque municipale, MS 1926, fol. 136.

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS Vat. lat 939, foll. 120v-123v.

Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, MS lat Z.497 (=1811), foll. 183r-184r.

Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, MS lat. II,56 (=2094).

Alphatical Versions


Ipswich, Old School Library, MS 6, item 9 (foll. 125v-177); s. xiv

Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, MS B.P.L. 120, foll. 132-141; s. xiii

Paris, Bibliotheque nationale, MS lat. 11885, pp. 67088; s.xii.


Sorry, this is not finished yet.

But see my article on this subject in Manuscripta 17 (1989).