München, BSB, Clm 5801c

Library	München, BSB
Shelfmark	Clm 5801c
Century	saec. XI
European region of origin	Southern Germany
Collection	Burchard of Worms, Liber decretorum
Digital Images	mdz-nbn-resolving.de
Main author	Lotte Kéry

München, BSB, Clm 5801c is a copy of Burchard's Liber decretorum from the second half of the eleventh century. It contains a library catalogue from Ebersberg which refers to Clm 5801c itself as iste liber Burchardi. The codex is physically incomplete due to the loss of several leaves; it ends in BU19.159 in mid-sentence on fol. 173. A gap not explained by physical damage (and shared with München, BSB, Clm 18094 ) is that the capitulatio to book 11 ends with c. 27. Clm 5801c belongs to the Frankfurt recention and contains neither Seligenstadt canons nor any synodal ordines; they also lack an arbor consanguinitatis found in many Burchard copies. The lack of chapter numbers and inscriptions suggest that Clm 5801c was left unfinished after the main text had been copied.

As Kéry, Sonderüberlieferung argued, Clm 5801c and München, BSB, Clm 18094 are not only closely related but may indeed represent an early recension. As she was able to show, both codices (or their exemplar) may have been copied from Frankfurt, Universitätsbibliothek, Barth. 50, but no other known Burchard exemplar (pp. 129-131). Specifically, the exemplar must have been similar to the Frankfurt copy ante correctionem (i.e. before the addition of de Iepte discernens in BU12.029 and before the chapters after Bu01.169/170 were deleted). Another shared feature of the two Munich copies, distinct from all copies from Worms, are the unusual running titles.

Literature

Kéry, pp. 135-136 (Clm 5801c itself), 145 (Ebersberg catalogue); Kéry, Sonderüberlieferung passim.