Collectio Bonaevallensis I

The Collectio Bonaevallensis prima belongs to a number of chronologically arranged collections compiled in Gaul in the sixth and seventh centuries, particularly in the south – at Arles, in the Rhône Valley and at Lyon. Of major significance is their transmission of Gallic councils.

It is divided in 31 titles and was compiled in the early 9th century in Gaul. Mordek recognized that its most recent formal source is the Institutio canonicorum of the council of Aachen in 816. The collection is found only in the Ms Paris, BnF, lat. 3859, fol. 1r–54r. The present analysis (BA) was made by supplementing the 38 analysis of Mordek with information from the manuscript. The principle source of the Bonaevallensis prima is the Vetus Gallica. Mordek recognized similarities to a number of early Gallic chronologically arranged collections as well, although no known collection is the direct source. The compiler was the abbot Godo of Bonneval (near Chartres). This attribution is based on the fact that running across the top, the sides and bottom of folios 55v and 56r is the note: Godo Bonaevallis humilisque monasticus abbas codicis huius opus sanctorum canonae factum donat. There are also similarities to the Dionysio-Hadriana and the late 7th century Gallic Collectio Sancti Amandi, which is transmitted together with the Hadriana.

The Collectio Bonnaevallensis was analysed by Hubert Mordek, Die Rechtssammlungen der Handschrift von Bonneval – ein Werk der karolingischen Reform, DA 24 (1968), pp. 339–429. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, pp. 50–53 and 57. 39

Categories

• key is BA
• medium (500 to 1000 canons) collection
• from southern France
• terminus post quem 800
• terminus ante quem 820
• saec. IX
• Collection
• Clavis enrties based on manuscript