Collectio Burgundiana
| Title | Collectio Burgundiana |
|---|---|
| Key | ? |
| Alternative title | Sammlung der burgundischen Handschrift ( Maassen ) |
| Size | medium (500 to 1000 canons) |
| Century | saec. VIII |
| General region of origin | Burgundy? Northern-France? |
| Main author | Sven Meeder |
| Structure | farrago |
| No. of manuscripts | one |
The Collectio Burgundiana is a collection of (excerpts from) authoritative canonical texts, including conciliar canons, papal letters, penitential decrees, monastic rules, and patristic works. It survives in only one manuscript, now in the Royal Library in Brussels: Bruxelles, KBR, 8780-8793 (https://opac.kbr.be/LIBRARY/doc/SYRACUSE/17328213). In fact, it appears that the Burgundiana seems to span the entire manuscript, which means that it includes a penitential section (also known as the Paenitentiale Burgundense) and the brief collection known as the Scintillae. Friedrich Maassen astutely identified the collection as die Sammlung der burgundischen Handschrift.
Manuscript
Brussels, KBR, MS 8780–8793 is a small, thick book, measuring 175 x 120 mm (ca. 125 x 77–88 mm), an easily transportable codex with generally well-prepared parchment of medium thickness. The manuscript counts 129 folios, on which several scribes worked, writing in a ligature-rich pre-Caroline script or an early Caroline minuscule. The pre-Caroline and early Caroline script appear to be contemporary and point to an eighth- or early ninth-century date. Both Lowe and Bischoff suggested a northern French or Belgian origin.
CLA 10, no. 1543 (as n. 2), p. 30; Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des
neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), vol. 1: Aachen – Lambach (Veröffentli-
chungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutsch-
lands und der Schweiz), Wiesbaden 1998, p. 156, no. 725
Till Stüber, Die ‘Scintillae de canonibus uel ordinationibus episcoporum’. Eine kleine Kanonessammlung aus der Merowingerzeit, in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien 56 (2022), pp. 15–47; Maassen, Geschichte p. 636, Kéry Collections p. 86
