Paris, BnF, lat. 12097

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
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Library Paris, BnF
Shelfmark lat. 12097
Olim shelfmark Sangerm. 936
Century saec. VI2/4 (shortly after 524)
Century 2 saec. VI - saec VII
Provenance ?
Place of origin Arles or Lyon (Kéry)
European region of origin Southern France
Collection Collectio Corbeiensis
Collection 2 Fulgentius Ferrandus, Breviatio canonum
Digital Images gallica.bnf
Description at archivesetmanuscrits.bnf
Description at 2 leges.uni-koeln
CLA CLA V 620
Bischoff number 4728 on p. 182
Author Christof Rolker


The bulk of Paris, BnF, lat. 12097 was written in Southern France in the sixth or seventh centuries; only the first and the last quaternio (fols. "a" to "g" and 225r-232v, respectively) were added later. The codex was used by Schwartz for EOMIA (his Codex Corbeiensis or simply C). The Date is controversial, but Kaiser, Beobachtungen pp. 85-86 made a strong case that the main hand wrote only part of the papal catalogue and hence the manuscript was written in 524 or shortly thrreafter.

It contains a large number of canon law (in the widest sense) texts, including most famously the only extant copy of the Collectio Corbeiensis on fol. 9r-92r. Mordek called the text fol. fol. 177v-178v the Collectio Corbeiensis systematica. For a very detailed analysis of the contents, see Kaiser, Beobachtungen pp. 66-83.

Literature

Kéry, Collections pp. 6-7, 23, 48.- Kaiser, Beobachtungen.