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
Digital Images	gallica.bnf.fr
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	8v	Short version of c. 21 (like editio princeps fol. 3rb).	Fowler-Magerl, Fine Distinctions pp. 147–149; Fransen, Montpellier p. 306; Fransen, Valeur p. 6; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 22–23, 33
BU01.023	8v	C. 23 is missing. After c. 22, c. 23 correspond to the editio princeps c. 24 begins: Quod non oporteat ordinationes episcoporum diu differri. Quoniam quidam metropolitanorum quantum comperimus ne ... See the editio princeps fol. 3va, c. 23 ends ... detestatio ne percussus.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 306
BU01.234	32r	No additions after the end of book one (Quia vero plurimi episcoporum ex aliis […] est in troadam). See fol. 32r in the editio princeps.	Dusil, Wissensordnungen p. 257 n. 258
BU02.018-024	35rv	The manuscript follows the standard sequence cc. 18-24 as the editio princeps fol. 36r-36v, but the numbering is different because of 2 missing canons: c. 3 is missing, so c. 18= c. 17 here. The sequence would be: 17-20, c. 21 here = c. 23 editio princeps (c. 22 of the editio princeps is missing too: Admittuntur passim [...] abstrahatur).	Fransen, Montpellier pp. 301, 307; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 33–34; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten p. 135
BU02.239 - end part	46v	Addition BT26 De monachorum monateriorumque libertate incipit: Quam sit necessarium monasteriorum quieti prospicere; explicit: Aprilis indictione quarta. (JE 1366 ? Gregorius episcopis omnibus quam sit necessarium monasteriorum quieti [...] promovehat). See fol. 54r of the editio princeps for the ending of book two („Wormser Ordnung Typ A“).
BU03.015	49v	No 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
BU03.241- end part	63v	No addition after book three. 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
BU08.038	85v	Like "German" copies (and Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, 3777), it has the complete chapter (Si quis sacro uelamine consecratam in -- sine spe coniugii maneat). See fol. 117v-118r of the editio princeps for c. 38, fol. 118r for c. 39, and fol. 119v for cc. 49-50. Note that c. 38 is numbered c. 36 because c. 14 and c. 16 are missing.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 303–304; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 9–10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU08.049-50	85v-86v	After c. 38 (here = c. 36) there is an added canon (incipit: fidem irritam fecerunt explicit: sicut bonum est castitatis premium ita). Cc. 39-41, 43, 45 are missing. 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
BU12.009	108v	C. 9 is missing. 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). See in the editio princeps fol. 154v.	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	108v-109v	Only c. 13 is missing. Most copies which break off in c. 9 with sin autem also lack cc. 10-20. See the editio princeps fol. 156r.	Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten pp. 137-138, 155
BU12.029	110r	The book ends with c. 28; c. 29 is missing. See editio princeps fol. 157.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 304; Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 12–13, 15–18; Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 61, 63–64
BU19.108	155r 157v	In deteriores copies, book 19 ends here. In Bnf, la. 8922 the book 19 is complete and it ends with the Council of Salegunstadt.	Fransen, Montpellier pp. 304–305; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10–11, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
BU20.057	172v	In deteriores copies, book 20 ends with c. 57. Here it's complete.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 305; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 11; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
After book 20	172-173	Additions, see biblissima: f. 172v [BERENGARIUS TURONENSIS, Confessio fidei, 1079:] "Ego Bergarius corde credo et ore confiteor...-... ea recesserant" (P.L., 150, 411). — Addition de la fin du XIe s. f. 173. "ALEXANDER [II papa] episcopus servorum [sic] Dei Udoni carissimo fratri Trevirorum archipresuli... Litteris tuis dilectissime frater susceptis quendam sacerdotem...-... constringere prevaleas.Vale" (P.L., 146, 1414-1415); cf. Jaffé-L, n° 4758 (3526). — "GREGORII papae VII [illisible]. Si quis clericus contra patrum regulas [illisible] arma...-... per gratiam" (éd. d'après cet unique ms. par S. Löwenfeld, Epistolae pontificum romanorum ineditae, Berlin, 1885, n° 120, 58-59); cf. Jaffé-L., n° 5289. — "P[ASCALIS II] episcopus servus servorum Dei venerabili confratri B[runoni] Trevirorum archiepiscopo... Frater noster Leodiensis episcopus misit ad nos...-... protulisse judico. Datum iiii idus novembris" du 11 nov. 1106 (éd. d'après cet unique ms. par Ph. Jaffé, Bibliotheca rerum germanicarum, 5, Berlin, 1869, 508-509), cf. Jaffé-L., n° 6099 (4589), et à la suite "Hoc decretum sanxit Bruno archiepiscopus...-... excommunicatione persequatur". — Additions du début du XIIe s., de différentes mains. f. 173v. Fragment avec notation musicale: "Quid videbitis in Sunamite...-... fabricata es manu artificis" (Ct 7, 1); cf. même texte, ms. B.n.F., lat. 8917, 101v, provenant également d'Echternach. — Addition du XIIe s. — Note sur les aumônes et les prières des Quatre temps: "In primo quatuor temporum jejunio quod in marcio...-... angustiis liberare amen". — Addition de la fin du XIe s.	Rolker, Letters p. 112.- Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 pp. 24-26.

Literature

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