2008-2012

Between 2008 and 2012, after Robert G. Babcock left the Beinecke Library to take a position at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, several manuscripts were acquired by a committee of library staff and Yale faculty, including E.C. Schroeder, Kathryn James, Diane Ducharme, Jessica Brantley, Anders Winroth and Alistair Minnis. 
 

Bergendal Collection of Mediaeval Manuscripts

The Bergendal Collection was a large collection of medieval manuscripts owned by Joseph Pope (1921-2010), who donated eighteen manuscripts and placed others on deposit at the University of Toronto.  After his death, his heirs placed the deposited manuscripts for sale at Sotheby’s for a 5 July 2011 auction in London (lots 28-119). The Beinecke purchased four manuscripts:

1. Legendary (fragment) Bavaria, [between 800 and 850]. Beinecke MS 1151. Written in a proto-Carloingian minuscule, the scribe has been identified (by Bernard Bischoff) as Cundpato, monk of the Benedictine monastery of Freising. Olim Bergandal MS 115. Cataloged by Diane Ducharme. Sotheby’s 5 July 2011, Lot 28.