Paris, BnF, lat. 4283
| Library | Paris, BnF |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | lat. 4283 |
| Century | saec. XII |
| Provenance | ? |
| European region of origin | unknown |
| Collection | Burchard of Worms, Liber decretorum |
| Collection 2 | Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283 |
| Digital Images | gallica.bnf (from microfilm) |
| Author | Christof Rolker |
Paris, BnF, lat. 4283 is a composite manuscript. The first quaternio is the missing first quire of Troyes, BM, 1386; it contains Burchard's preface and the first 27 chapters of the Liber decretorum. The rest of BnF lat. 4283 has been described as a miscellany of separate (small) collections by Fransen and is partly found in the data base with the key FE (see Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283).
Division of the materials
Brommer and Fransen anaysed BnF lat. 4283 indepentendly of each other and divided the materials in different ways.
Brommer described fol. 1-48 as but one collection, a Burchard abbreviation drawing on the first 16 books. He identified the Sententiae sanctorum patrum (fol. 9r-11r) as excerpts from 74T similiar to those in Stuttgart, WLB, HB.VI.107 and Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.j.q. 2, and identified the Burchard material on fol. 11-47.
Fransen recognized the first quire as a separate codicologial unit (his Part A) and divided the second part of the manuscript in two parts (Parts B and C), the second of which he further divided in two large sections: Part B (fols. 9-57), part C1 (fol. 58r–65v and 77r–v; key FE02); part C2 (fol. 66r–76v, key FE03). He identified further sub-sections.
Ex divinis preceptis (also found elsewhere e.g. CA07.112) and Tribulationibus et calamitatibus are found on fol. 9r (image) as the first piece of the new quire, immediately before the heading Sententiae sanctorum patrum and in a different hand. Ex divinis preceptis seems to be attributed to Pope Paschal I rather than Paschal II here (S. Paschalis pape). Fransen p. 171 treats the two texts as the first piece of his "part B"; Brommer does not mention them. Blumenthal, Paschal II reports BnF lat. 4283 as the only textual witness of Tribulationibus et calamitatibus (JL -).
The Burchard excerpts begin fol. 11r with a capitulatio (41 numbered entries, in two colums) under the heading Liber primus. They end fol. 48r (sic) with Explicit liber XVI. Fransen p. 171 treats it as a separate work ("Abrégé des seize premiers livres du Décret de Burchard de Worms").
Literature
Brommer, Kurzformen pp. 31-32; Fransen, Collections canoniques dans le manuscrit 4283; Kéry, Collections p. 139-141 (first quire), 147 (fol. 11-47 [sic]).
