Paris, BnF, lat. 12448

Library	Paris, BnF
Shelfmark	lat. 12448
Olim shelfmark	Harlay 386
Century	saec. IX or X in
Provenance	Saint-Germain
European region of origin	Northern Italy; probably Eastern France (Kéry)
Collection	Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana
Collection 2	Collectio Novariensis
Collection 3	Lex Romana canonice compta
Digital Images	gallica.bnf.fr
Description at	archivesetmanuscrits.bnf
Author	Lotte Kéry

Paris, BnF, lat. 12448 (olim Sangerm. Harlay 386) is the sole copy of Lex Romana canonice compta. It is commonly dated to the tenth century, but Bischoff thought an earlier date possible too. According to Kaiser, the manuscript was written by four scribes: hand 1 parts 1 and 3, hand 2 part 2, hand 3 parts 4 and 5, hand 4 the rest (?)

The manuscript contains rich Roman and canon law materials:

part 1:

• fol. 1r-78r: large parts of the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana.
• fol. 78r-79ra Short version of the Roman councils of 743 and 826
• fol. 79ra-112v Lex Romana canonice compta

part 2:

• fol. 113v Gregory I

part 3:

• fol. 113v-124v Isidore, Roman law, Decretum Gelasianum.
• fol. 124v-131r excerpts from the Collectio Novariensis (see Kéry, 23)

part 4:

• fol. 131v-138r excerpts from the letters of Gregory the Great (cf. Jasper, p. 76-77 esp 77 n. 333)
• fol. 138r-v Julianus Pomerius

part 5

• fol. 138v-139r Gregory I

part 6

• fol 139-166v Gregory I, Liber pontificalis, Ps.-Ambrose, Paul the Deacon, excerpts from Bede, Canones Gregorii

Literature

Maassen, pp. 188-189, 193, 283-284, 307-308, 443, 452, 721, 888 (Roman law), and 950; Mor, Lex romana; Kéry, pp. 17, 32, and 161; Kaiser, Epitome Iuliani, esp. 494-499