Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 713
| Library | Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | 713 |
| Century | saec. XII/XIII |
| European region of origin | Northern France |
| Collection | Panormia |
| Collection 2 | Collectio canonum in Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 713 |
| Digital Images | not digitized as of early 2025 |
| Description at | Decretum project |
| Description at 2 | data.biblissima.fr |
| Description at 3 | archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr |
| Main author | Martin Brett |
Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 713 is a composite manuscript containing two medieval manuscripts (713A and 713B). The first is a copy of the Panormia (siglum Qa), the other the only known copy of the Arsenal Collection(s) (siglum A in Brett's edition of Ivo's Decretum).
Arsenal 713A (fo. 1-116)
s.xii/xiii. St Victor, but not necessarily from outset.
Panormia to 8.136 (fol. 116v); extensive adds in text, esp. after 2. 1 and 2. 145, and one at end. Some additions shared with Paris, BnF, lat. 10742 (Pt) and Evreux, BM, lat. 25 (Eg). Inscriptions often abbreviated. Few marginal rubrics.
Arsenal 713B (fo. 117-192)
s. xii in long lines. By c. 1200 in the library of St Victor, Paris, it was ms. N 4 in the Grandrue catalogue of 1514
Although this is a partial and disorganised text, with many idiosyncratic scribal errors, it is of considerable importance, for it appears to preserve some of the long sequences of texts from elsewhere which would be added to a largely complete but re-arranged Burchard to produce Ivo's Decretum text more or less as we have it. Part of the reason for believing this is that the Arsenal sequences share nothing substantial with those from Burchard, and often begin or end immediately after or before a Burchard one. Further, there are many cases where A retains readings from the original source more faithfully than any other surviving manuscript. In other cases it has passages from the same sources which seem to have dropped out of the Decretum copies entirely (or may perhaps have been rejected early in the process of composition).
Links
For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition of Ivo's Decretum and the Panormia, see Brett, Decretum and Panormia, respectively.
Literature
Brett, Sources, pp. 149–167; Somerville, Papal Excerpts; Kéry, Collections pp. 252, 256
