Vesoul, BM, 79

Library	Vesoul, BM
Shelfmark	79
Century	saec. XI
Provenance	Faverney Abbey
European region of origin	Northern France
Collection	Collectio XCI capitulorum
Collection 2	Florilegium Vesulensium
Description at	CGM
Description at 2	capitularia.uni-koeln.de
Author	Sven Meeder

Vesoul, BM, 79 (CGM 73) is an eleventh-century manuscript of 88 folios, containing various canon law materials (most notably the Collectio XCI capitulorum), liturgical texts, and capitularies.

Contents

Manuscript 79 is a small, late tenth- or eleventh-century codex and contains what appears to be a consciously arranged combination of practical religious texts that dates to the ninth century. Mordek described the book as a typical utilitarian manuscript of the church ('typisch kirchliche Gebrauchshandschrift'). It was copied by several scribes in a flowing Caroline minuscule, who made more than a few errors in their Latin.

The first chapters of the Collectio XCI capitulorum on fol. 44v; (c) BM Louis Garret

Vesoul 79 (73) is a fairly well-organized codex, with red rubrics in minuscule (rarely in capitals) separating the different works and guiding the reader through its selection of texts. This modest manuscript has only two small illustrations, which were perhaps added later than the text. A drawing of a man in a hat can be spotted in the initial Q on folio 12v (opening a statement on the performance of augury and divination), while another initial Q is filled with the illustration of a face (folio 23v).

folios	texts
1r	Content list (French, saec. xviii-xix): "Manuscrit du quatorzième siècle qui contient une collection des canons penitentiaux dont le commencement a été imprimé dans le Thesaurus Anecdotorum Tome 4 page 21"
1v-28r	‘chapters from penitential books’, drawn from Excarpsus Cummeani and the Theodorian Paenitentiale Umbrense
28v-42r	Paenitentiale additivum Ps.-Bedae-Egberti
42v-44r	Gregory I, Libellus responsionum
44r-53r	Collectio XCI capitulorum
53r-v	excerpts from Decretum Compendiense (a. 757) and the Decretum Vermeriense (a. 756)
53v-57v	Anonymous clerical interrogation on baptism
57v-63r	so-called 'Fortunatus commentary' on the Creed (57v–63r)
63r-65v	brief Expositiones on Mass and Paternoster
65v-68v	Commentary on the Creed
68v-81r	Theodulf of Orléans, Capitula I
81r-87v	Florilegium Vesulensium (patristic excerpts drawn from the Collectio Sangermanensis XXI titulorum)

For a detailed description, see the article on 91C, and the Capitularia homepage.

Literature

Mordek, Bibliotheca, p. 895; Kéry, Collections pp. 77, 83, and 165; Sven Meeder, ‘A collection of no authority: canon law and the Collectio 91 capitulorum’, Early Medieval Europe 32 (2024), pp. 82–105. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emed.12686