Arras, BM, 644

Arras, Bibliothéque municipale, 644 (572) is a copy of the Collectio Quesnelliana.

Note that the shelf mark is sometimes given as "644 (572)" (Kéry), "CGM 572 / Ms 644" (CCFr) or "644 (CGM 572)" (CNRS), sometimes as "572 (644)" (d'Avray).

The manuscript should not be confused with Arras, BM, 114 (644), a sixteenth-century manuscript https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md18rb690s6b

Kéry, p. 27: „saec. VIII-IX, probably Northeastern France or Northwestern Austrasia; probably from the same scriptorium as Einsiedeln 191; Prov. Saint-Vaast at Arras; cf. A. Goldbacher, CSEL 58 (1923) LXI; CLA 6, no. 713, p. 4 and p. 42; CLA Suppl. p. 56“.

Contents

According to the description of Marie-Christine Duparc as reported by d'Avray, the Arras manuscript contains

• fol. 2r-3r: Catalogue of popes from St Peter to Honorius I (625-638) and Severinus (d. 640)
• fol. 3v-212: Quesnelliana, "complete aparat from the randomly exceosed folios" (d'Avray, p. 42)
• fol. 212v Pseudo-Silvester
• fol. 212v-213v Liber decretorum
• fol. 213v (addition) Imperatores Gratianus, Valentinianus et Teodosius

Links

• Description: https://portail.biblissima.fr/ark:/43093/mdataae054d64410431f68fe3bc46889b64b07e201f95
• digitized: https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md91sf268b07
• Biblissima [1]
• old catalogue: https://archive.org/details/catalogue04fran/page/228

Literature

• d'Avray, Papal jurisprudence, pp. 27-28 and passim (on Arras 644, his Qa, as the "base manuscript" for his Quesnelliana texts)

Categories

• Manuscript
• digitized
• not in Clavis
• saec VIII
• Eastern France
• copy of Collectio Quesnelliana