De enigmatibus (Das Bibelwerk) on Genesis: A Few Problems Concerning Enigmas from Codicological Fragments

In his groundbreaking ‘Wendepunkte’ article of 1954, Bernhard Bischoff listed some manuscript fragments at the BSB Munich that contain parts of the Hiberno-Latin biblical commentary De enigmatibus. The shelfmarks he indicated (‘Clm 29051 + 29162 + 29167’) have long been obsolete and cannot readily be identified in the usual concordances. After investigation in Bischoff’s ‘Nachlass’ at the BSB, we can demonstrate that the fragments correspond to the current signatures Clm 29280/4 and 29410/5. Our paleographical analysis confirms that these pieces originally belonged to the same manuscript book, written around the middle of the ninth century, probably in the Regensburg area. Since the fragments (all from the commentary on Genesis) were not consulted by Gerard MacGinty for his edition of the Pentateuch section of De enigmatibus, we transcribe their texts and also clarify their stemmatic relationship to the main manuscripts of the commentary: they were copied from the same lost exemplar as was Clm 14276 (s. ix^1/4, Regensburg).