Hic continentur ista: Collecting and Concealing in an Early Ninth-Century Instruction-Reader (Laon, Bibliothèque Municipale “Suzanne Martinet,” MS 265)
John J. Contreni
This chapter offers a forensic analysis of composite manuscript consisting some eight codicological units put together probably by the mid-ninth century. The book contains 32 texts and partial incipit from thirty-third that was not included in collection. Three also bear evidence concealment censorship. A list contents on front flyleaf testify to collection’s existence at Laon third quarter ninth Each save one is identified discussed. Collectively strongly resembles an “instruction-reader,” type Carolingian for training priests.
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