Paris, BnF, lat. 8922

Library	Paris, BnF
Shelfmark	lat. 8922
Century	saec. XI
Terminus post quem	1050
Terminus ante quem	1082
Provenance	Echternach Abbey
Place of origin	Echternach
European region of origin	Eastern France
Collection	Burchard abbreviation
Digital Images	gallica.bnf
Description at	archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr
Author	Michela GalliChristof Rolker

Paris, BnF, lat. 8922 contains a large abbreviation of Burchard on fol. 12-172v with the Council of Seligenstadt (added between books 19 and 20; fol. 155v-156v). The abbreviation is supplemented with a number of additional texts by later hands, including JE +1336 (fol 46r-v), the Concordate of Worms, an oath of Berengar, and a number of papal letters.

The manuscript was commissioned by Abbot Régimbert of Echternach (1051–1081), as stated in a marginal note on fol. 2v.

According to Kéry, Collections pp. 143-144 and 148 it also contains a leave of another Burchard copy, the rest of which is today Tarragona, Biblioteca Pública, 35, fol. 1-132.

Codicology

This manuscript, produced at Echternach between 1051 and 1081, is written on parchment, with drypoint ruling. It consists of 172 folios, organized into 22 quires, each laid out in two columns of 35 lines. The text was copied by nine different scribes, identified as hands A to I, each responsible for specific sections.

The manuscript features decorated initials, including two large gold initials with orange ink and colored backgrounds (fols. 2v and 4), as well as smaller colored initials throughout. Additional elements include a family tree diagram (f. 82), Greek characters (f. 45v), musical notation in Lorraine neumes (f. 173v), and marginal annotations, including a 12th-century note and a “probacio penne” (f. 112).

It is bound in a 19th-century tree calf leather binding, restored later in that same century, bearing the red spine and gold-stamped title "BURCHARDUS", along with the emblem of Louis-Philippe. Provenance stamps from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1792–1802) are visible on folios 1 and 173v.

This description is based on the BnF catalog entry compiled by Amandine Postec.

Contents

Burchard chapter	fol.	Significant Variants	Literature
BU01.021	8v	Short version of c. 21 (like editio princeps fol. 3rb).	Fowler-Magerl, Fine Distinctions pp. 147–149; Fransen, Montpellier p. 306; Fransen, Valeur p. 6; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 22–23, 33
BU01.023	8v	C. 23 is missing. After c. 22, c. 23 correspond to the editio princeps c. 24 begins: Quod non oporteat ordinationes episcoporum diu differri. Quoniam quidam metropolitanorum quantum comperimus ne ... See the editio princeps fol. 3va, c. 23 ends ... detestatio ne percussus.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 306
BU01.234	32r	No additions after the end of book one (Quia vero plurimi episcoporum ex aliis […] est in troadam). See fol. 32r in the editio princeps.	Dusil, Wissensordnungen p. 257 n. 258
BU02.018-024	35rv	The manuscript follows the standard sequence cc. 18-24 as the editio princeps fol. 36r-36v, but the numbering is different because of 2 missing canons: c. 3 is missing, so c. 18= c. 17 here. The sequence would be: 17-20, c. 21 here = c. 23 editio princeps (c. 22 of the editio princeps is missing too: Admittuntur passim [...] abstrahatur).	Fransen, Montpellier pp. 301, 307; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 33–34; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten p. 135
BU02.239 - end part	46v	Addition BT26 De monachorum monateriorumque libertate incipit: Quam sit necessarium monasteriorum quieti prospicere; explicit: Aprilis indictione quarta. (JE 1366 ? Gregorius episcopis omnibus quam sit necessarium monasteriorum quieti [...] promovehat). See fol. 54r of the editio princeps for the ending of book two („Wormser Ordnung Typ A“).
BU03.015	49v	No addition after c. 15 (see fol. 58r of the editio princeps), namely an excerpt from JE 1317 beginning Pervenit ad me quod and ending per clericorum ambitum destruantur.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 306; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 44–45
BU03.241- end part	63v	No addition after book three. See fol. 81 of the editio princeps for the ending of book three („Wormser Ordnung Typ A“).	Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 6–7, 14; Schneider MHG Ordines pp. 31-37; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 43; Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 41–45
BU08.038		While "German" copies (and Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, 3777) have the complete chapter (Si quis sacro uelamine consecratam in -- sine spe coniugii maneat), many deteriores break off with cohabitare tecto, followed by spatium or not. Sometimes, the missing text is added by a later hand; sometimes, c. 38 is merged with c. 49, or followed directly by c. 50. See fol. 117v-118r of the editio princeps for c. 38, fol. 118r for c. 39, and fol. 119v for cc. 49-50.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 303–304; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 9–10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU08.049-50		Deteriores copies typically lack cc. 39-48; c. 49 may be incomplete or missing altogether. Sometimes, the two fragmentary canons cc. 38 and 49 are merged into one (grammatically disturbed) canon. See fol. 118r-119v of the editio princeps for a complete series of cc. 39-50.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 303–304; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 9–10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU12.009		In the deteriores copies, c. 9 ends with similiter peniteat. Sin autem (note that in copies like London, BL, Cotton Claudius C.vi, the sin autem is missing too).	Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten pp. 137-138, 155
BU12.010-20		Most copies which break off in c. 9 with sin autem also lack cc. 10-20.	Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten pp. 137-138, 155
BU12.029		The canon is transmitted in a number of variants: The phrase et post paululum is sometimes replaced by other words de iepte discernens What is the wording between asserendi copia profluus and hęc in suis narrat affectibus? What is the wording between in malis promissis rescinde fidem and quod incaute novisti non facias. (One Italian branch here reads eloquentię fructu fecundus).	Fransen, Montpellier p. 304; Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 12–13, 15–18; Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 61, 63–64
BU19.108		In deteriores copies, book 19 ends here.	Fransen, Montpellier pp. 304–305; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10–11, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU20.057		In deteriores copies, book 20 ends with c. 57. Sometimes the missing canons are added by a later hand and/or other additions are found here, including JE †1996, JE 1362, and JK 744.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 305; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 11; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
After book 20		The canons of Seligenstadt are found in several Burchard copies, most commonly after the last book of the Liber. Jasper has disinguished two recensions, see his account in MGH Conc. 8.	Rolker, Letters p. 112.- Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 pp. 24-26.

Literature

Kéry, Collections pp. 136, 143-144, 148; Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 pp. 20-21.