Auxerre, BM, 269

Library	Auxerre, BM
Shelfmark	269
Century	sec. XII
Provenance	?
European region of origin	France (Pontigny?)
Collection	Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum
Digital Images	bvmm.irht.cnrs
Description at	arca.irht.cnrs
Author	{{subst:Lotte Kéry}}

In the inventory of the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny at the end of the 12th century, a "Volumine uno, Decreta Gratiani" was recorded as number '153'. The same manuscript is described as "in-folio atlantico, elegans et completo" in later inventories, following the seizure of the abbey during the French Revolution.

The manuscript is in fragments. Individual folios or fragments are preserved in the following libraries:

C.1: Cleveland Museum of Art, MS 54.531

C.2: London, Victoria & Albert Museum, MS 8985 A

C.3: Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis EM. 16: 9

C.5: https://auctions.dreweatts.com/past-auctions/blooms1-10015/lot-details/0c39fa15-f9f2-4830-aca7-ad3600f19865

C.10: London, Victoria & Albert Museum, MS 8985 E

C.14: London, Victoria & Albert Museum MS 8985 F

C.19-20: Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 205

C.22: London, Victoria & Albert Museum MS 8985 B.

C.23: Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis EM. 16: 8.

C.24-25: Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 4874 E, no. 2.

C.26: London, Victoria & Albert Museum MS 8985 C

C.27: London, Victoria & Albert Museum MS 8985 D

C.35: Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, 269

Literature

W. Cahn, A Twelfth-Century Decretum Fragment from Pontigny. Cleveland Museum of art Bulletin 62 (1975) 7-59. – Mordek, Review of Melnikas 409.