Paris, BnF, lat. 8922

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
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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
Digital Images gallica.bnf
Description at archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr
Author Michela Galli


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.

Contents

Burchard chapter fol. Significant Variants Literature
BU01.021 What is found between Cavendum et summopere […] per os dicat Gregorii and Et alibi. Dolens inquit […] diu stare non poterit? The most common texts are:
  • Short version (see editio princeps fol. 3rb): Cur non perpendit, quia benedictio illi in maledictionem converitur.
  • Long version: Cur non videtur, cur non perpenditur [...] fiat hęreticus ordinatur. Et item. Quisquis contra hanc simoniacam […] tantummodo inaniter concupiscit.
 Fowler-Magerl, Fine Distinctions pp. 147–149; Fransen, Montpellier p. 306; Fransen, Valeur p. 6; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 22–23, 33
BU01.023 Is there an addition after c. 23?
  • In the editio princeps fol. 3va, c. 23 ends ... detestatio ne percussus, and c. 24 begins: Quod non oporteat ordinationes episcoporum diu differri. Quoniam quidam metropolitanorum quantum comperimus ne ...
  • In many Italian copies, c. 23 is followed by Si quis episcopus aut presbiter aut abbas per pecuniam […] et sit anathema sicut Simon Magus a Petro?
 Fransen, Montpellier p. 306
BU01.234 Are there additions after the end of book one? Normally, the last canon is c. 234 (Quia vero plurimi episcoporum ex aliis […] est in troadam). Three known additions are:
  1. Placet ut in anno bis concilia celebrentur […] assertione promulgabitur (a canon otherwise only known from Collectio XII partium);
  2. Erga simoniacos (an excerpt from JL 4431a, normally ending sanctimus)
  3. Fraterne mortis (JL †6613a)
 Dusil, Wissensordnungen p. 257 n. 258
BU02.007 Commonly, c. 23 (De rebus vero illorum vel peculiari) is displaced, so that the sequence of canons is "18, 23, 19-22, 24". See fol. 36r-36v of the editio princeps for the standard sequence. Fransen, Montpellier pp. 301, 307; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 33–34; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten p. 135
BU02.018-024 See fol. 54r of the editio princeps for the ending of book two („Wormser Ordnung Typ A“).
BU02.239 - end part Is there an addition after c. 15 (see fol. 58r of the editio princeps), namely an excerpt from JE 1317 beginning Pervenit ad me quod and ending per clericorum ambitum destruantur? Fransen, Montpellier p. 306; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 44–45
BU03.015 Is there a synodal order added after book three? The most common one is Schneider's Ordo 5 but there is considerable variety, as Schneider's discussion of the individual ordines makes clear. See fol. 81 of the editio princeps for the ending of book three („Wormser Ordnung Typ A“). Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 6–7, 14; Schneider MHG Ordines pp. 31-37; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 43; Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 41–45
BU03.241- end part While "German" copies (and Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, 3777) have the complete chapter (Si quis sacro uelamine consecratam in -- sine spe coniugii maneat), many deteriores break off with cohabitare tecto, followed by spatium or not. Sometimes, the missing text is added by a later hand; sometimes, c. 38 is merged with c. 49, or followed directly by c. 50. See fol. 117v-118r of the editio princeps for c. 38, fol. 118r for c. 39, and fol. 119v for cc. 49-50. Fransen, Montpellier p. 303–304; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 9–10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU08.038 Deteriores copies typically lack cc. 39-48; c. 49 may be incomplete or missing altogether. Sometimes, the two fragmentary canons cc. 38 and 49 are merged into one (grammatically disturbed) canon. See fol. 118r-119v of the editio princeps for a complete series of cc. 39-50. Fransen, Montpellier p. 303–304; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 9–10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU08.049-50 In the deteriores copies, c. 9 ends with similiter peniteat. Sin autem (note that in copies like London, BL, Cotton Claudius C.vi, the sin autem is missing too). Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten pp. 137-138, 155
BU12.009 Most copies which break off in c. 9 with sin autem also lack cc. 10-20. Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten pp. 137-138, 155
BU12.010-20 The canon is transmitted in a number of variants:
  • The phrase et post paululum is sometimes replaced by other words
  • de iepte discernens
  • What is the wording between asserendi copia profluus and hęc in suis narrat affectibus?
  • What is the wording between in malis promissis rescinde fidem and quod incaute novisti non facias. (One Italian branch here reads eloquentię fructu fecundus).
 Fransen, Montpellier p. 304; Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 12–13, 15–18; Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 61, 63–64
BU12.029 In deteriores copies, book 19 ends here. Fransen, Montpellier pp. 304–305; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10–11, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU19.108 In deteriores copies, book 20 ends with c. 57. Sometimes the missing canons are added by a later hand and/or other additions are found here, including JE †1996, JE 1362, and JK 744. Fransen, Montpellier p. 305; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 11; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU20.057 The canons of Seligenstadt are found in several Burchard copies, most commonly after the last book of the Liber. Jasper has disinguished two recensions, see his account in MGH Conc. 8. Rolker, Letters p. 112.- Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 pp. 24-26.
After book 20

Literature

Kéry, Collections pp. 136, 143-144, 148; Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 pp. 20-21.


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