Elementos hispánicos en la Abadía de Reichenau (siglos VIII-IX)

In 1907 Ludwig Traube assumed that Pirmino, founder of the monastery of Reichenau
in 723 and its first abbot, was a Hispanic or Aquitainian of Visigoth origin. The oldest
manuscript of the Scarapsus Pirminii, his guide to missionary activity, shows «Hispanic
indications» in its abbreviations and according to Traube is the «handiwork of a Hispanic
calligrapher.» This evidence was rejected by Arnold Angenendt in 1972. However, from
the study of the psalter written in Reichenau around the year 820 in «Alemannic» and, in
particular, the four Tituli psalmorum of Psalm 21 in Uncial calligraphy, one can argue their
Hispanic origin. The content shows the particular features of the Spanish Adoptionism
of the eighth century, and also linguistic evidence of Latin from the Visigoth Fathers.
Curiously, the course of his life and writings run parallel to the life of Fructuoso de Braga.