Paris, BnF, lat. 3839
| Library | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | lat. 3839 |
| Century | s. XI2 (Mordek), fols. 86v-121v s. XIex (Kéry) |
| General region of origin | France |
| Collection | Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) |
| Collection 2 | [[Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana, Abbreviatio Ansegisi et Benedicti Levitae, and Collectio Dacheriana]] |
| Main author | Bruno Schalekamp |
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 3839 is a late eleventh-century manuscript of 120 folios in 2 cols. (330 x 245 mm (260 x 200 mm)). Its codicological composition reads as follows: 15 quires, 15 x IV120. (Early?) modern folio numbering in Arabic numerals are found on the recto side of each folio in a modern hand. The foliation skips numbers 54 and 57, without interruption or lacuna. Rubrication of contents is included on the top margins of every folio. Note also that Maassen previously dated fols. 1-86v of this manuscript as s. X. It was written by one hand in Caroline minuscule. The manuscript's origins are not completely clear but it must have been written in France according to Mordek. The manuscript's provenance is only known through its inclusion in the private collection of Philippe Hurault, bishop of Chartres (1592-1621), and was from 1622 onward in possession of the French Bibliothèque royale.
Contents
München Clm 6242 is a medium-sized codex and contains exclusively canonical material, which is dominated by the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana. Three other canonical collection are included, the Abbreviatio Ansegisi et Benedicti Levitae, the first chapters of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), and a very short excerpt of the preface and beginning of the Collectio Dacheriana.
See the digitized version: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100733146.
| folios | texts |
|---|---|
| Front cover and paper flyleaf | |
| 1ra-86vb | Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana |
| 86vb-121va | Abbreviatio Ansegisi et Benedicti Levitae |
| 121vb-122ra | Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), chapters I-VIII |
| 122ra-122vb | Collectio Dacheriana, praefatio and beginning of text. Seems to cut off in the middle of the first few paragraphs |
| Paper flyleaf and back cover |
Literature
Gaudemet, Les sources du droit canonique (1993), p. 26-27; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 16, 76, 81, 89, and 123; Laffitte, ‘La Librairie de Georges d’Amboise à Gaillon’ (1999), p. 261-273; Laffitte, ‘Une acquisition de la Bibliothèque du roi’ (2008), p. 42-98; Maassen, Geschichte der Quellen (1870), p. 443; Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium (1995), p. 524; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform (1975), p. 244; Mordek, Studien zur fränkischen Herrschergesetzbung (2000), p. 99 n. 93; Rambaud-Buhot, ‘Un corpus inédit de droit canonique’ (1968), p. 271-281; Reynolds, Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts (2009), cited in sources.
An edition of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) is currently being prepared by Sven Meeder, Gideon de Jong, and Bruno Schalekamp.
