Paris, BnF, lat. 14315

Paris, BnF, lat. 14315 is a copy of Ivo's Decretum (P in Brett's edition); saec. XII, double columns. The manuscript certainly later was at St Victor, but was written perhaps in the Chartres area (P. Stirnemann). The text has been extensively corrected; the earlier state of the text was nearer Paris, BnF, lat. 3874 (= B) than the later. It shares with B some distinctive readings which seem to require an ultimate common archetype, but it was clearly distinct from B even before correction. From the outset it was closest to Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1357 (= V) among the complete copies, both in what it included and omitted and in some detailed readings; the later alterations show that it had been collated with another exemplar even closer to V; there are some changes which cannot be explained so, but several (e.g. in 15.58) where a second hand in P has added passages now only known otherwise from the main text of V, and V cannot be a copy of P, since it lacks many of its minor peculiarities. In the passages where they overlap PVB sometimes agree with S against CM. The book was known to Fronteau, who occasionally added variants from it in notes, or silently amended the text of M on its authority, and it provided the basis of Fournier’s classic account of the collection.

Links

• description: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc75083x
• digital images (from b/w microfilm) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10036020g
• Brett's edition: https://ivo-of-chartres.github.io/decretum.html

Literature

Kéry, Collections p. 251