Collectio Burdegalensis analysis

The Collectio Burdegalensis is a collection compiled in the late eleventh century or not much later in Aquitaine extant in two manuscripts. Its main formal source is Burchard, supplemented from 74T. Compared to Burchard's Liber decretorum, the Burdegalensis has a clear focus on monks and their privileges.

The Burdegalensis is divided into sixteen books. Two books on monastic liberty (one on monks, a shorter one on nuns) have no model in Burchard; here, the compiler drew on 74T.

The Burchard version used

The compiler of the Burdegalensis used an Italian, though not a Milan, version of Burchard (Schneider). Namely, Book 1 contains an addition typical of the Italian Burchard (Burdegalensis 1.24 = Burchard 1.23A) and Burchard 2.23 is displaced as in the Italian tradition (Burdegalensis 2.7-9 = Burchard 2.18, 23, 19).

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