ABSTRACT
One of the earliest and most important liturgical texts of the eighth century, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Palatina lat. 574, which reached the Vatican Library in August 1623 from Heidelberg, was to become the victim of serious manuscript mutilation. S. Blasien was occupied, together with other ecclesiastical institutions during the Napoleonic wars and was marked for secularization. Its extensive library was intended for the university of Freiburg, once a full catalogue had been drawn up. In his opinion and given these facts, the Benedictines of S. Paul would be disposed to return the folios to the Vatican Library. Meanwhile it would be a gracious gesture for the library to send them some offprints of his article. The library of S. Paul im Lavanttal, however, still possesses fragments of three further liturgical texts from the Vatican Library, all of which reached the abbey in the same way as the leaves from Palatine 574.
