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Barcelona BC 569 and a Carolingian programme on the virtues
Author(s) -
Chandler Cullen J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
early medieval europe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1468-0254
pISSN - 0963-9462
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2010.00299.x
Subject(s) - ninth , history , classics , humanities , art , ancient history , genealogy , acoustics , physics
The Frankish noblewoman Dhuoda composed the Liber manualis for her son, William. It survives in only one complete manuscript copy, found in Barcelona's Biblioteca de Catalunya, Ms 569. Pierre Riché argued that the Barcelona copy descended from William's own. This article points out evidence suggesting that the other texts in the manuscript (save one later addition) may derive from early medieval exemplars as well, providing the opportunity to see what kinds of texts made up a lay nobleman's library in the mid‐ninth century.