Abbreviatio Ansegisi et Benedicti Levitae

An abbreviation of the capitulary collections of Ansegis and Benedictus Levita was compiled in the early eleventh century in northern France. Several copies exist: Paris, BnF, lat. 3839 (11th century, France), fol. 86v–121v (fragment), Paris, BnF, lat. 3839A (late 11th century, from Saint-Aubin at Angers), fol. 34r– 76r, Paris, BnF, lat. 17526 (12th century, France), fol. 24r–58r (fragment), Montpellier, Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire H. 137 (late 11th century, France), fol. 172v–229v, Palermo, Archivio della Cattedrale, 14 (12th century, France), fol. 71r–112v. The Montpellier copy has a capitulatio, the Paris manuscripts do not.

The abbreviation was used in the first of the collections found in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf. which came to Milan from Reims. It was also used for the Collectio XVII librorum; Schmitz has identified the copy in the Ms Montpellier 137 as the closest to the Poitevine collection. The abbreviation was also used for the Collectio CCCXLII capitulorum, which was probably compiled at Lyon, and for the Lothringian Collectio IV librorum in Köln, Dombibliothek, 124.

Literature

Kéry, Collections pp. 122–124.