Paris, BnF, lat. 3858A

Library	Paris, BnF
Shelfmark	lat. 3858A
Century	saec. XII1/2
Provenance	?
European region of origin	Northern France
Collection	Collectio Tripartita
Digital Images	gallica.bnf.fr (from microfilm)
Description at	archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr
Description at 2	data.biblissima.fr
Author	Martin Brett

Paris, BnF, lat. 3858A (Bigot) is a copy of the second version of the Collectio Tripartita. It is manuscript B in the Brett/Nowak edition.

saec. XII 1/2, written in two columns; from Fécamp, in a known hand (see Branch, Willermus p. 196).

The copyist only numbered some canons in sequence, but often treated the canon numbers of the collection in other copies as if they were canon numbers in the material source. The text has many variants not yet found elsewhere, but is in general a version close to V (Vorau, Stiftsbibliothek, 350) and P (Kraków, Archiwum Kapituły Katedralnej, 84), rather than W (Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 180 Helmst.), an apparently distinct form of the second version. However, B and W share a string of extracts from the first book of the Panormia at the end, which are not found elsewhere. Like VP, and against W, it lacks Tripartita A1.14.14, and like PW it lacks the additional canons after B9.2 against V. BnF, lat. 3858A is unique among Tripartita manuscripts in including the canons of the Council of Westminster 1125 at the end.

Links

For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition, see Brett/Nowak, Tripartita

Literature

Betty Branch, Willermus peccator et les manuscrits de Fécamp, 1100-1150, in Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 26 (1983), 195-207; Kéry, Collections p. 245