The manuscript is a copy of capitularies of Charle...magne and Louis the Pious, collected by Ansegis, abbot of Luxeuil, around 826/827. There are more than 50 surviving copies of the work.

The original manuscript contained the four gospels... preceded by Eusebian canon tables with sumptuous decoration. The now surviving leaves were used as binding waste for account books in the 17 and 19 centuries. A rough estimation of the layout and the amount of text fitting one page suggests the original manuscript had about 280 fols.

The fragments from a Pontifical (liturgical book c...ontaining the rites performed by Bishops) together with some Collecta prayers, were found in bookbindings from the Mondsee Abbey (Upper Austria). The manuscript was written in carolingian minuscule from the first half of the ninth century by the order of Baturich, the Bishop of Regensburg, as attested by the script and the mentioning of St. Emmeram, the patron Saint of the Benedictine Abbey in Regensburg. It was written (mainly?) by one scribe. According to B. Bischoff this hand exhibits features, which are foreign to Regensburg and suggested that the scribe was a Mondsee monk working in Regensburg. When and why the manuscript was brought to Mondsee, where it was used as bookbinding waste in the fifteenth century, is unclear.

A leaf from a Uncial manuscript, which probably co...ntained the readings for the Mass from the New Testament Epistles. The script and decoration suggest that the manuscript was a product of the Mondsee scriptorium.

Several parchment fragments from an early Caroling...ian Bible, written in Mondsee. Reconstruction using fragments: Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. Ser. n. 3753 (2 fols.), Cod. 15347 (4 fols.), Fragm. 6 (3 fols.), Fragm. 10 (2 fols.), Fragm. 852 (9 strips, 8 pieces) and binding waste in Cod. 3712.

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A collection of glosses to biblical and patristics... texts. Each set of glosses is introduced by a rubric giving the title of the glossed text. The lemmata in Latin begin with capital letter followed by a short explanation in Latin or Old German. This collection of glosses is known as the Mondsee Bibel glossary (in German Mondseer Bibelglossar) from the second half or end of the ninth century transmitted in several manuscripts. The glossary was originally written in Bavaria. The exact place of origin is uncertain; one possibility is the scriptorium of Reichenau (). The Mondsee manuscript is one of the oldest surviving.

The manuscript contains the text of the twelve min...or prophets followed by Isaiah and Jeremiah. The anthology is preceded by an excerpt from Jerome's letter to Pauline giving a short overview of the main topic of each book. Already in Jerome's time the twelve books of the prophets were written down 'compressed within the narrow limits of a single volume'. Passages from Jonas, Michaeas, Sophonias, Aggaeus, Zacharias, Isaiah and Jeremiah have contemporary annotations suggesting the texts were read in the liturgy.

Cod. Ser. n. 2065 is a physical reconstruction of ...a dismembered manuscript. Like other Carolingian manuscripts, it was probably cut apart and used as binding waste in the 15th century to refurbish the bindings of other Mondsee books. In the course of the 19th and 20th centuries librarians from the former Court library (now the Austrian National Library) detached the fragments from bindings and recollected them under the shelfmark Cod. Ser. n. 2065. The all together 211 fragments can be reconstructed to 92 leaves. Recently found fragments have been left in-situ in the bindings of the following manuscripts: Vienna, ÖNB, Codd. 1953, 2996, 3247, 3781, 3816, 3839, 5001 and 5426. They present 3 further leaves of the original manuscript.

A group of hagiographical fragments of the Vitas P...atrum written in the early ninth century. The original manuscript included five works: Historia monachorum, Vita Pauli, Vita Antonii, Vita Malchi and Vita Hilarionis. From the last two survived only four fragments representing two partial leaves.

From the original manuscript survived 17 strips cu...t from 7 bifolia, which were used as binding waste in an early print belonging to the Mondsee library. The fragments were detached 1960 and mounted on goldbeater's skin to form 13 partial leaves.

The composite volume contains two main codicologic...al units. The first 63 folios with the biblical text of "Libri Maccabeorum" were written probably in Mondsee in the 13 c. The second part starting on f. 64r and datable to the first half of the 9 c. contains a partial copy of the Pauline letters (reconstructed manuscript ) and a collection of homilies.

The manuscript is a copy of a Carolingian collecti...on of homilies and sermons for Lent, attested in several other MSS. The oldest, according to is (Regensburg, s. IX). A textual comparison betwenn the witnesses is needed to establish the relations between them.

For history overview of the reconstruction see rec...onstruction . Current hypothesis: The fragments listed below belong to a copy of Gregorius Magnus, Homiliae in evangelia and not a Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi as suggested in the previous literature. Evidence comes from the order of the homilies, which does not follow that of the Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi but that of the Homiliae in evangelia. Example: Fragm. 15 includes the end of Hom. 12 and the beginning of Hom. 13 - in PD these homilies does not follow one another but have Nr. 2,122 and 2,109 (this fragment was not mentioned by previous authors hence perhaps unknown). Another evidence in the numbering of homilies in the margin, which follows that of Gregorius Magnus, Homiliae in evangelia and not the Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi. Example: Cod. Ser. n. 2066, f. 1rb with Gregorius Magnus, Homilia VI is marked with ; the same homily is Nr. 5 in the Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi (not included in Alani). Finally Gregorius Magnus, Hom. 39 found in two new fragments (Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 3651, off-set; Vienna, ÖNB, Fragm. 1584) is not part of either Homiliarium Alani or Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi (the last evidence is not strong enough, since the compiler could add this homily to one of the collections).

The composite manuscript is called "Traditionsbuch..." - a typical form of cartulary containing transcriptions of charters relating to the possessions and donations made to the monastery. Of particular interest for the current project is the first codicological part copied in the second half of the ninth century as well as fols. 67 and 68 datable to the tenth century.

The manuscript contains apart from the four gospel...s, the Eusebian canon tables - providing the concordance between the gospels; the capitulare at the beginning records the readings from the gospels during mass throughout the whole year --(NB! to compare with the Homiliarium in Cod. 1557, Cod. 1014 - if the readings match the homilies order there. Cod. 1557 was supposedly copied from Clm 14386 written in or around Regensburg - if the readings match, the collection might have originated in Mondsee - not very probable though). Readings begins for the time of Christmas, February, March, then with rubric "Incipiunt lec euangelii a usque in pascha". Possible match with the Würzburg comes ff. 10v-16v (see G. Morin, "Liturgie et basiliques de Rome au milieu du VIIe siècle d'après les listes d'évangiles de Würzburg", in: Revue benedictine 28 (1911), S. 296-330. That the mansucript was used for the readings during Mass throughout the year (instead of a lectionary containing selected readings from the four Gospels) is also attested by the (later) added interlinear letters , and which mark a special reciting practice for the Passion readings, where different monks recited the verses in which the evangelist, Christ or other characters (the disciples) speak. Compare with a fragment from a Lectionary now in Newberry Library, Medieval Manuscript Fragment 4 - written in south-eastern Germany in the early ninth century ( Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca, NY: 2007), 140-141). Cod. 1193 the typical ruling in two columns with three vertical dividing lines in between - also present in the bible fragments in Linz.

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This Uncial manuscript of the Gospels according to... the Vulgata was probably written in Mondsee in the second half of the eight century. The manuscript was at some point discarded and used as binding waste. Preserved are 62 folios (18 in the Morgan Library in New York and 36 in the GNM in Nuremberg and 8 in the Stadtbibliothek in Nuremberg) containing parts of the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John. At least two sexternions are missing with the beginning of Luke (1,1-5,19) and another two or three quires at the end of John (12,40-21,25). The original manuscript probably contained the text of all four Gospels in the so-called Greek order adopted by Jerome, starting with Matthew, Mark, Luke and ending with John. Since there are no fragments of Matthew and Mark, this would mean that we are now missing the entire first half of the book, which would have covered more than 200 leaves.

From the original manuscript survive several fragm...ents, which were used as binding waste in Mondsee manuscripts.

Miscellany on pastoral care. The collection was in...tended for regular use (Gebrauchshandschrift) as suggested by the relative small format, rather low execution of the script and medium quality parchment.

Fragment - Bischoff supposed it is produced in Upp...er Austria and found similarities with the script of the Landperht-Homiliar . The fragment is a contemporary excerpt from all canons of the five councils from the year 813 ().

The manuscript is probably a product of the Mondse...e scriptorium, brought to Cologne thanks to Hildebald who was Archbishop of Cologne and Abbot of Mondsee (: , ; ). It contains a collection of homilies on the epistles for the Sundays and festivals of the Ecclesiastical Year from Christmas to Feast of the Ascension.