Arras, BM, 644 (CGM 572)

{{Infobox manuscript

   | library        = Arras, BM
   | shelfmark      = 644 (CGM 572)
   | biblissima = Q208049
   | descriptionat = [https://archive.org/details/catalogue04fran/page/228/mode/1up archive.or (CGM 4 p. 228)
   | descriptionat2 = [https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md91sf268b07 arca.irht.cnrs.f
   | digitalimages  = [https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md91sf268b07 arca.irht.cnrs.f
   | bischoffnumber = 88 on p. 26
   | author1        = [[User:Christof Rolker|Christof Rolke]
   | normregion     = Eastern France
   | coll           = Collectio Quesnelliana
   | century        = saec. VIII-IX
   | clanumber      = CLA VI 713
   | provenance     = Saint-Vaast at Arras

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Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, 644 (CGM 572) is a copy of the [[Collectio Quesnellian].

Description

The manuscript has 212 folios (20 are lost) written in long lines by several scribes. The script is Caroline minuscle. Loew stressed the similarities to Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 191 in content, script, and layout. According to him, both are the product of the same scriptorium. One of the scribes according to Bischoff may have beeen trained in Saint Amand. Kéry, Collections p. 27 provides the following description:

saec. VIII-IX, probably Northeastern France or Northwestern Austrasia; probably from the same scriptorium as Einsiedeln 191; Prov. Saint-Vaast at Arras; cf. A. Goldbacher, CSEL 58 (1923) LXI; CLA 6, no. 713, p. 4 and p. 42; CLA Suppl. p. 56.

Shelf Mark and Sigla

Note that the shelf mark is sometimes given as "644 (572)" (Kéry), "CGM 572 / Ms 644" (CCF) or "644 (CGM 572)" ([https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md91sf268b07 CNRS), sometimes as "572 (644)" (Turner, d'Avray). The manuscript should not be confused with Arras, BM, 114 (644), a sixteenth-century manuscript (see [https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md18rb690s6b her).

Turner, EOMIA and Wurm, Studie cite it as Ψ. Elliot, [https://www.academia.edu/4591285/Canon_Law_Collections_in_England_ca_600_1066_The_Manuscript_Evidence Canon Law refers to it as C1 (or Ar, see [http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/manuscripts/texts/quesnelliana.html her). d'Avray, Papal jurisprudence used Arras 644 (his Qa) as the "base manuscript" for his Quesnelliana texts.

History

The codex later was in the possession of Abbot Saewold of St Peter’s at Bath who donated it with other books to Saint Vaast. Whether he acquired the books he donated while still in England, or only after 1068 on the Continent, is unknown.

Contents

According to the description of Marie-Christine Duparc as reported by d'Avray, the Arras manuscript contains

• fol. 2r-3r: Catalogue of popes from St Peter to Honorius I (625-638) and Severinus (d. 640)
• fol. 3v-212: The [[Quesnellian], "complete apart from the randomly excised folios" (d'Avray, p. 42)
• fol. 212v Pseudo-Silvester, Damnatio Vigilii (addition) ((Elliot)
• fol. 212v-213v Preface to the [[Dionysian] (addition also found in Paris, BnF, lat. 1454 and Paris, BnF, lat. 3842A) ((Elliot)
• fol. 213v (addition) Imperatores Gratianus, Valentinianus et Theodosius

Literature

Note that the manuscript was unknown to Maassen, Geschichte.

Turner, EOMIA 1.1.2 p. xii.- Wurm, Studien und Text p. 83.- Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform p. 239.- Kéry, Collections p. 27.- Elliot, Canon Law esp. 108-109 (his C1).- d'Avray, Papal jurisprudence pp. 27-28 and passim.

[[Category:Manuscrip] [[Category:Digitized Manuscrip] [[Category:Manuscript from Eastern Franc] [[Category:Manuscript of Collectio Quesnellian] [[Category:Manuscript of early papal letter] [[Category:Manuscript in Arras, B]