Bobbio Orosius

Folio 1v of the Bobbio Orosius contains the oldest surviving carpet page in any insular manuscript.

The Bobbio Orosius (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS D. 23. Sup.) is an early 7th century Insular manuscript of the Chronicon of Paulus Orosius. The manuscript has 48 folios and measures 210 by 150 mm. It is thought to have been produced at the scriptorium of Bobbio Abbey, which was founded by Saint Columbanus in 612.[1] It appears in an inventory of the monastic library done in 1461. The monks gave the manuscript to the Ambrosian Library when it was founded in 1606 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo.[2]

  1. ^ Netzer, Nancy (September 1994). Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Makings of a Scriptorium at Echternach. Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-521-41255-1.
  2. ^ Rothschild, Clare K. (2022-04-19). The Muratorian Fragment: Text, Translation, Commentary. Mohr Siebeck. p. 83. ISBN 978-3-16-161174-2.