C i t a t i o n: EVINA STEINOVA: Carolingian Critters. Munich, Clm 6298, in: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/238 (posted January 16, 2013). 1 Evina Steinova - Carolingian Critters: Munich, Clm 6298 To start with... Ms. Munich, BSB Clm 6298, also known as the Homiliary of St. Korbinian, is one of the somewhat elusive pieces of the digital collection of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek that I came across recently. According to the Katalog of Bernhard Bischoff, it is a late eighth-century exemplar of the homilies of Caesarius of Arles (and others) produced in clear Anglo-Saxon minuscule. 1 The locus of its origin remains a mystery. Some of the continental centers with well-known Anglo-Saxon presence have been suggested based on the paleographical evidence, among them Fulda, Mainz and Würzburg. 2 Katharina Bierbrauer pointed out similarities in the script with a group of manuscripts from the Würzburg school and this seems to be the most recent assessment of the origin of this piece. 3 This much for introduction. But what else lurks in this Carolingian codex? The manuscript found its way to the cathedral library of Freising by the twelfth century, but its earlier whereabouts remain a part of the puzzle. Secrets of folio 3r There is more than one surprise hidden in its pages. Clm 6298 contains many “extensions” in the form of short excerpts and miscellaneous notes inserted here and there in empty spaces. These attachments have been partially transcribed and identified by Glauche in Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, 4 1. Quattuor turbas sequebantur dominum. Una propter sanitatem corporis. Alia propter fabulas. Tertia propter reprehensionem. Quarta propter vitam aeternam. although the batch I am interested in here was not treated. It is a group of what may be called marginalia made by a single hand in the lower and upper part of folio 3r. They may be recapitulated here in the order from top of the page to the bottom: 2. Corban. communis locus ubi aelimosinae populi congregantur inde aluntur sacerdotes. Magdalena. nomen loci 3. Duo in lecto illi significantur qui remoti a turbis in otio quidam vitae iacere videntur, duo molientes qui negotiis temporalium rerum circumferuntur, duo in agro qui in ministerio 1 Bischoff (2004), no. 3036a; most recently also in Lapidge (2005), p. 160. 2 See Glauche (2000), p. 171. 3 Bierbrauer (1990), no. 219. 4 Glauche (2000), p. 173.