Paris, BnF, lat. 14315

From Clavis Canonum
Library Paris, BnF
Shelfmark lat. 14315
Century saec XII
European region of origin Northern France
General region of origin Northwestern Europe
Collection Ivo of Chartres, Decretum
Digital Images gallica.bnf
Main author Lotte Kéry

Paris, BnF, lat. 14315 is a copy of Ivo's Decretum (P in Brett's edition); saec. XII, double columns. The manuscript certainly later was at St Victor, but was written perhaps in the Chartres area (P. Stirnemann). The text has been extensively corrected; the earlier state of the text was nearer Paris, BnF, lat. 3874 (= B) than the later. It shares with B some distinctive readings which seem to require an ultimate common archetype, but it was clearly distinct from B even before correction. From the outset it was closest to Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1357 (= V) among the complete copies, both in what it included and omitted and in some detailed readings; the later alterations show that it had been collated with another exemplar even closer to V; there are some changes which cannot be explained so, but several (e.g. in 15.58) where a second hand in P has added passages now only known otherwise from the main text of V, and V cannot be a copy of P, since it lacks many of its minor peculiarities. In the passages where they overlap PVB sometimes agree with S against CM. The book was known to Fronteau, who occasionally added variants from it in notes, or silently amended the text of M on its authority, and it provided the basis of Fournier’s classic account of the collection.

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Kéry, Collections p. 251