Paris, BnF, lat. 3842A

Paris, BnF, lat. 3842A is a copy of the Collectio Quesnelliana (fol. 1-179?) with an appendix fol. 180v-188r (mainly conciliar canons but also a royal capitulary, Statuta ecclesiae antiqua and JE 1743) similar to that in Paris, BnF, lat. 1454.

According to Mordek, Bibliotheca p. 438 it was written in the middle or third quarter of the ninth century, perhaps in Paris. It was at Beauvais in the 15th century and still there when Hardouin used the manuscript, as Vanspauwen p. 591 pointed out (pace Kéry, p. 27).

The manuscript was used by Quesnel alongside Oxford, Oriel College Library, 42 for his edition of the Quesnelliana.

Content

According to the (much more detailed!) analysis of Jacqueline Rambaud-Buhot, revised by Jacqueline Sclafer (see https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc61810g) the manuscript contains:

• fol. 1r-8r: texts on the first six councils, the definition of "canon" (Isidore), and the Canones Apostolorum; conciliar canons; glosses on Dionysio-Hadriana; Osius of Cordoba
• fol. 8r-22v extracts from the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana, the same ones as in Paris, BnF, lat. 1454, fol. 12v-33v
• fol. 22r-22v Isidore's preface
• fol. 22v-24v Constitutum Silvestri; also in Paris, BnF, lat. 1454
• fol. 25r-164r Collectio Quesnelliana
• fol. 164r-185v diverse materials, mainly conciliar canons but also penitential materia, letters by Silverus, Leo I, and Gregory I, episcopal letters
• fol. 185v-187r Statuta Ecclesiae antiqua
• fol. 188r- diverse conciliar canons, episcopal letter, and a letter by Gregory I
• fol. 190r-191r Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Galliarum

Links

• Description: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc61810g
• digitzed (from b/w microfilm): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10073809x

Literature

• Mordek, Kirchenrecht, p. 239
• Mordek, Bibliotheca p. 438-439
• Aäron Vanspauwen, [Review of:] Matthew J. J. Hoskin: The Manuscripts of Leo the Great’s Letters. The Transmission and Reception of Papal Documents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Plekos 24 (2023), pp. 587–599. https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/5836/