Paris, BnF, lat. 3858

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
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Library Paris, BnF
Shelfmark lat. 3858
Century saec. XII
Provenance ?
European region of origin unknown <-- manuscript cannot at present be categorized in one of our regions according to Categories for manuscripts by region. -->
Collection Collectio Tripartita
Description at archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr
Author Martin Brett


Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 3858 contains the first version of the Collectio Tripartita. Its siglum in the Brett/Nowak edition is R. It is the base manuscript for the Tripartita entries in the Clavis canonum database (IT).

saec XII1/2, written in long lines; from Troyes.

BnF, lat. 3858 contains a complete text of the first version of the Tripartita but with readings in detail closer to the second than those of HQA (= Berlin, SBPK, Hamilton 345, Paris, BnF, lat. 4282, and Alençon, BM, 135). Against the other first version mss the text of Z (Paris, BnF, lat. 3858) is much closer to J (Paris, BnF, lat. 13656 than to TGO (København, KB, Thott 555 4°, Gonville and Caius, 455 (393), and Bodleian Library, D’Orville 46), and may well have been copied from it. It omits almost all the texts marked with a cross there, except Tripartita A1.4.8B, but is apparently unique in including 1.4.8A – largely repeated in Tripartita A1.12.1-2a. The conclusion of Tripartita B29 links it (loosely) rather to HQ than to T. It is a good clear copy, only lightly corrected, though much smaller hands have inserted some of the rubrics, and many cross-references to Gratian. See too Szuromi (2010) 74-6, 139-41.

Links

For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition, see Brett/Nowak, Tripartita.

Literature

Kéry, Collections p. 245.