{"id":44295,"date":"2023-03-21T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=44295"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:24:29","slug":"searching-for-bhl-6173-and-6175-part-5-the-magnum-legendarium-austriacum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2023\/03\/21\/searching-for-bhl-6173-and-6175-part-5-the-magnum-legendarium-austriacum\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for BHL 6173 and 6175 (Part 5) – the “Magnum Legendarium Austriacum”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our two fragments of story of St Nicholas, BHL 6173 and 6175, originate from a early 12th century sermon on St Nicholas by Honorius of Augustodunensis.\u00a0 But not directly.<\/p>\n

In the late 12th century somebody created a massive 4-volume collection of material about the saints, in saint’s day order.\u00a0 Each volume contained 3 months of the year.\u00a0 The manuscripts that survive are all held in Austrian collections, and so it is known as the Magnum Legendarium Austriacum<\/a>, or MLA for short.\u00a0 There is in fact a substantial Austrian website devoted to this text, which may be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 It even has a page on each saint; Nicholas is here<\/a>, and even links to an early edition for the Translatio<\/em> text.<\/p>\n

It looks as if Diarmuid O’Riain is the scholar currently at work on the MLA, and his very useful “New Investigation” paper is online at Academia here<\/a>.\u00a0 He also has a CV here<\/a>, (with quite possibly the worst photograph I have ever seen on any academic CV ever!), and is clearly doing good work.\u00a0 Sadly his 2020 article “Neue Erkenntnisse zur Entstehung und \u00dcberlieferung des\u00a0Magnum Legendarium Austriacum<\/i>” here<\/a>, pinpointing the abbey of Admont as the probable origin of the collection, is hidden uselessly behind a firewall.<\/p>\n

The Magnum Legendarium Austriacum<\/a> collection was detailed by Albert Poncelet, “De Magno Legendario Austriaco,” Analecta Bollandiana<\/i> 17 (1898) 24\u201396, and the contents of the St Nicholas material may be found in appendix XXII, p.204-9.\u00a0 Fortunately I have access to this.\u00a0 Item 32, “Miraculum de vase aureo” (Miracle of the golden vessel) and item 34, “De imagine S. Nicolai” (The image of St Nicholas) are what the Bollandists list as BHL 6173 and 6175.\u00a0 These excerpts themselves then appear independently in other manuscripts, as we have seen.<\/p>\n

But it follows that the manuscripts of the Magnum Legendarium Austriacum<\/a> will also contain our text.<\/p>\n

One of the witnesses to this collection is held at Heiligenkreuz, mss. 11-14.\u00a0 St Nicholas’ Day is December 6th, so it is the last volume in which we are interested, Heiligenkreuz 14, online here<\/a>.\u00a0 The website has a nice set of links to literature about the manuscript.\u00a0 The St. Nicholas material is on f.57r to f. 65v.<\/p>\n

Using the left menu to find the St. Nicholas stuff takes you to folio 57r.\u00a0 Then clicking on “Scroll” takes you into a scrollable viewer.\u00a0 I’m rather taking to this, much as I hate viewers, because it is so very fast.\u00a0 Most online viewers are like wading through treacle.\u00a0 I wish I could zoom in and out using the mouse-wheel on my mouse tho.<\/p>\n

A bit of moving and I find our texts on f.64v and f.65.\u00a0 I still can’t see how to download the individual pages from scroll view, nor how to flip back to the standard view while staying on f.64v.<\/p>\n

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Heiligenkruez 14, f.64v-65r, BHL 6173 and 6175.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fortunately there is no need for me to do so.\u00a0 I now have a text of these two pieces, based on what the text and translation that I made for Honorius Augustodunensis in my last post<\/a>, and that will do for my purposes.<\/p>\n

All the same the resources do exist at manuscripta.at to collate the manuscripts of the MLA at this point, and had I known of them sooner, I would have used them.<\/p>\n

We’re still in the early days of manuscript websites.\u00a0 Nobody quite knows how best to do this stuff.\u00a0 The problem is compounded by the fact that website developers mostly have no idea about how they should be used by reseachers.\u00a0 One day someone will figure out how to do it, and then everyone will go “Oh!\u00a0 So that’s how it’s done!” and do likewise.\u00a0 But I am quite grateful for how much is online now.\u00a0 None of this work would have been possible even 5 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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