Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283

Title	Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283
Key	FE
Size	Small (100 to 500 canons)
Terminus post quem	1115
Terminus ante quem	1199
Century	saec. XII
Main author	Fowler-Magerl, Linda

The first eight folios of Paris, BnF, lat. 4283 were once part of a copy of the Liber decretorum of Burchard. The rest of this copy is now in the Ms Troyes, BM, 1386, fol. 137–301. Gérard Fransen divided the rest of the present manuscript (FE in the present analysis) into two parts, B and C. Part B, which extends to folio 57, has the key FE01. Part C is divided into two sections the first of which, on folios 58r–65v and 77r–v, has the key FE02. The second section, on folios 66r–76v, has the key FE03. The content is varied, but there is enough material from northern France to suggest that the material was assembled there, perhaps in the vicinity of Reims.

Part B begins with the first decree of the council held in 1108 at Benevento by pope Paschal II. This is followed by a letter of Paschal to Raoul, archbishop of Reims, written between 1113–1115 regarding an episcopal election at Cambrai. The letter apparently survives only in this manuscript. Then follow several brief collections, each written by a different scribe. The third of these collections is an abbreviation of the first 16 books of Burchard, each book preceeded by a capitulatio. In the present analysis only those texts which are not found in Burchard are registered. The section ends with the confession of Berengar of Tours in 1059 and the forgery attributed to Gregory I, Quam sit necessarium (JE † 1366).

Part C contains excerpts from the Liber decretorum of Burchard, a letter of Peter Damian to pope Alexander II dealing with simony, excerpts from the Theodosian Code, a number of forgeries, an extract from a letter of Hincmar of Reims (Migne PL 126. 253–254) and canons from the council held at Reims by pope Calixtus II in 1119.

Literature

See Gérard Fransen, Collections canoniques dans le manuscrit 4283 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, in: Liber Amicorum Monseigneur Onclin (Gembloux 1976), pp. 169–197. Fransen edits both texts of pope Paschal II in part B (p. 172 f) and other unidentified texts. For other uses of the canon of the council of Benevento in canon law collections see Blumenthal, Decrees and decretals, p. 27 n. 59. – Bruce Brasington, A Note on Two Panormia-Derivative Collections, BMCL 22 (1998), pp. 14 f. Brasington found in the second section of part C series of excerpts from the Liber decretorum of Burchard in the same sequence as those in the prologue to the Panormia of Ivo of Chartres. – For the transmission of the canons of the council of Reims (1119) see Robert Somerville, The Councils of Pope Calixtus II: Reims 1119, , in: Proceedings of the 5th ICMCL, pp. 35–50. [204] Idem, The councils of Pope Calixtus II and the Collection in Ten Parts, BMCL 11 (1981), pp. 80–86. – The letter of Peter Damian to pope Alexander II is edited by Kurt Reindel, Die Briefe des Petrus Damiani 3 Nr. 140 (MGH, Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit 4, 3, Munich 1989), pp. 478–487. – Kéry, Collections p. 147.

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