Paris, BnF, lat. 12445

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
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Library Paris, BnF
Shelfmark lat. 12445
Century saec. IX 3/4
Provenance
Place of origin Reims
European region of origin Eastern France
Collection Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana
Collection 2 Collectio Sancti Amandi
Collection 3 Capitula Angilramni
Collection 4 Collectio canonum in Paris lat. 12445 and Berlin Phill. 1741
Digital Images gallica.bnf.fr (from microfilm)
Description at archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr
Description at 2 leges.uni-koeln.de
Description at 3 glossen.germ-ling.uni-bamberg.de
Description at 4 mirabileweb.it
Author Christof Rolker


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The manuscript is a copy of Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana and a short collection known from this manuscript and Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1741 (another Hadriana copy).

Contents

According to Böhringer and Bibliotheca legum, the manuscript contains the following materials:

Folio Content
1ra - 2rb Notitia Galliarum
2rb - 4rb Praefatio to the False Decretals
4va - 6ra Ordo 2 (ed. Schneider
6ra - 6vb Correspondence including JK †
6vb - 8vb Pseudoisidorians passages on Nicaea
8bis v Excerpts on ecclesiastical structure (parochies, dioceses)
9ra -11vb Pseudoisidorian opening section of a special version of the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (see Seckel/Fuhrmann pp. 25-28)
11vb-17va Three canons and glossary
17va - 150vb Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (capitulatio and main text)
151ra - 153ra Decretum Gelasianum
153ra - 156ra Canones Theodori
156va - 163ra Capitula Martini
163ra - 166vb Capitula Angilramni
167ra - 184vb Canon law collection only known from this manuscript
185ra - 187va Hincmar of Reims, Marriage tract (ed. Böhringer)
187va - 199vb Roman law (excerpts from Codex Theodosianus; see Conrad. Note that Böhringer follows Conrad here but the Bibliotheca legum does not. They instead identify the following pieces as separate entities:
194va - 196vb Constitutiones Sirmondianae (1-7)
196vb - 198vb, 199vb - 202vb, 210vb - 214rb, 216vb - 219va, 220vb - 224rb, 234rb - 235ra Lex Romana Visigothorum
202vb Gelasius JK 637 (according to Böhringer but not Bibliotheca legum)
202vb - 203ra Excerpts from the writings of Augustine, four conciliar canons, letter by Leo of Burges, Victorius of Le Mans, and Eustachius of Tours also found in the Collectio Pithouensis (according to Böhringer but not Bibliotheca legum).
210ra - 210vb Leges novellae (Nov. Valent. 8,1 and 8,2)
237ra - rb Epitome Iuliani, ch. 366 and 511

Literature

Maassen, Geschichte p. 852.- Williams, Codices pp. 86, 112-114, 130.- Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium pp. 31-32.- Stratmann, MGH Fontes iuris 14, passim.- Böhringer, ‘Der eherechtliche Traktat im Paris. lat. 12445, einer Arbeitshandschrift Hinkmars von Reims’, DA 46 (1990) 18-47.- eadem, MGH Conc. 4 Suppl. 1, passim.- Jasper, Early letters p. 184 n. 172 (excerpts from Pseudoisidore).- Kéry, Collections pp. 16, 84, 107, 117, 170.