ABSTRACT
Helmut Gneuss in his Handlist of Manuscripts lists just 14 copies of Hrabanus’s writings known to have been made or owned in Anglo-Saxon England.1 The list includes two copies of De computo (Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS 3507 [G258] and London, British Library, MS Cotton Vitellins A.xii [G398]); five complete or partial copies and translations of De institutione clericorum (CCCC, MS 190 [G59], CCCC, MS 201 [G65.5e*], Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 25 [G131], Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121 (5232) [G644e*] and CCCC, MS 265 [G73]); several commentaries: In Mattheum (Dublin, Trinity College, MS B.III.16 [G243]), In Hester and In Judith (both in Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 764 (739) [G779]), and In Epistolas Pauli (Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 308 [G140e]);2 some extracts from De naturis rerum (Salisbury Cathedral Library, MS 165 [G749e];3 and several copies of In honorem sanctae crucis (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.16.3 [G178], Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.5.35 [G12] and Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 26 (A.292) [G919.3e]). This represents only a small sampling of Hrabanus’s enormous opus, which, in addition to the works listed above, included commentaries on nearly every book in the Bible, a martyrology, a penitential handbook, theological treatises, homilies and a voluminous correspondence with influential individuals that included emperors
1 H. Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe, AZ, 2001).
