Avranches, BM, 146

Place	Avranches
Library	Bibliothèque municipale
Shelfmark	MS 146
Century	s. XI²-XII¹ (Taranne)
General region of origin	Northern France
ISIL no.	unknown
Collection	Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)
Collection 2	Pseudoisidore, False Decretals, Capitula Angilramni
Main author	Bruno Schalekamp

Avranches, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 146 is a late eleventh to early twelfth-century manuscript of 166 folios in 2 col. and 40 lines (365 x 275 mm, flyleaf 315 x 245 mm). Its codicological composition reads as follows: 21 quires, 20 x IV¹⁶⁰ + (IV – 1)¹⁶⁶; quire signatures start at I⁸ (primus) until VII⁵⁶ (VII), next thirteen quires labelled A⁶⁴ through N¹⁵⁹, last quire is not signed; modern foliation in Arabic numerals in lead pencil. The manuscript was written in one hand, possibly the scribe was called Osborne according to Samaran, Marichal, in late Caroline minuscule with illuminated script. Its provenance is definitely from Northern France, either from the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel according to Alexander, the Abbey of Saint-Omer-Saint-Bertin or Thérouanne according to Kéry.

Contents

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folios	texts
	Front cover and flyleaf
1r	Short description of contents in a modern hand (saec. XVIII)
1va-2va	Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Galliae
2va-160vb	Pseudoisidore, False Decretals
156ra-159rb	Pseudoisidore, Capitula Angilramni
159rb-160vb	Epistles of Pseudoisidore, titled: Epistola ad Leudefredum and Epistola ad Massonam
160vb-161rb	Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)
161rb-164ra	Excerpts of Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, book 8, chapters 5-6
164rb-165rb	List of popes since St. Peter and until Honorius II, including years, months and days of their pontificate
165va-166vb	He sunt proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis
	Flyfleaf and back cover

Literature

Alexander, Norman illumination at Mont Saint-Michel (1970), p. 224; Hinschius, Decretales, p. XII n. 14, XVIII n. 15, XXXIII n. II, CLXIV n. 12, and CLXV; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 74, 81, 100, and 114; Mordek, 'Dictatus papae e Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis' (1974), p. 6-7; Nortier, Les bibliothèques médiévales (1966), p. 67 n. 39, 87, and 90; Samaran, Marichal, Catalogue des manuscrits Vol. 7 (1984), p. 449; Somerville, ‘The Council of Beauvais, 1114’ (1968), p. 497 n. 29; Taranne, Catalogue général des manuscrits Vol. 4 (1872), p. 501; idem, Vol. 10 (1889), p. 67-68.