Paris, BnF, lat. 8922
| Library | Paris, BnF |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | lat. 8922 |
| Century | saec. XI |
| Terminus post quem | 1050 |
| Terminus ante quem | 1082 |
| Provenance | Echternach Abbey |
| Place of origin | Echternach |
| European region of origin | Eastern France |
| Collection | Burchard abbreviation |
| Description at | archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr |
| Author | Lotte Kéry |
Paris, BnF, lat. 8922 contains a large abbreviation of Burchard on fol. 12-172v with the Council of Seligenstadt (added between books 19 and 20; fol. 155v-156v). The abbreviation is supplemented with a number of additional texts by later hands, including JE +1336 (fol 46r-v), the Concordate of Worms, an oath of Berengar, and a number of papal letters.
The manuscript was commissioned by Abbot Régimbert of Echternach (1051–1081), as stated in a marginal note on fol. 2v.
According to Kéry, Collections pp. 143-144 and 148 it also contains a leave of another Burchard copy, the rest of which is today Tarragona, Biblioteca Pública, 35, fol. 1-132.
Codicology
This manuscript, produced at Echternach between 1051 and 1081, is written on parchment, with drypoint ruling. It consists of 172 folios, organized into 22 quires, each laid out in two columns of 35 lines. The text was copied by nine different scribes, identified as hands A to I, each responsible for specific sections.
The manuscript features decorated initials, including two large gold initials with orange ink and colored backgrounds (fols. 2v and 4), as well as smaller colored initials throughout. Additional elements include a family tree diagram (f. 82), Greek characters (f. 45v), musical notation in Lorraine neumes (f. 173v), and marginal annotations, including a 12th-century note and a “probacio penne” (f. 112).
It is bound in a 19th-century tree calf leather binding, restored later in that same century, bearing the red spine and gold-stamped title "BURCHARDUS", along with the emblem of Louis-Philippe. Provenance stamps from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (1792–1802) are visible on folios 1 and 173v.
This description is based on the BnF catalog entry compiled by Amandine Postec.
Literature
Kéry, Collections pp. 136, 143-144, 148; Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 pp. 20-21.
