Paris, BnF, lat. 12445
| Library | Paris, BnF |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | lat. 12445 |
| Olim shelfmark | Saint Germain 366 |
| Century | saec. IX3/4 |
| Terminus ante quem | August 871 |
| Provenance | Saint Germain |
| 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 |
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| Description at | archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr |
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| Author | Christof Rolker |
Paris, BnF, lat. 12445 is a codex produced around 870 in the environment of Hincmar of Reims. It contains a number of canon law collections (including the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana), some Roman law, and works of Hincmar.
The manuscript is closely related to Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1741 (another Hadriana copy).
BnF lat. 12445, Phillipps 1741, and Hincmar of Reims
The close relation between Paris, BnF, lat. 12445 and Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1741 has long been noted by Roman law scholars (e.g. Haubold, Opuscula vol. 2 p. XCVI). Hänel pp. LXXXV-LXXXVI counted them together as no. 71/72 in his list of manuscripts conntaining substantial parts of the Lex Romana Visigothorum. Conrad in 1910 was the first to point out that Paris, BnF, lat. 12445 was used by Hincmar of Reims; more recent research has confirmed that Hincmar indeed used these materials frequently in several of his works, e.g. for the Opusculum LV capitulorum.
Contents
According to Böhringer and Bibliotheca legum, the manuscript contains the following materials:
| BnF lat. 12445 | Content | Phil. 1741 | |
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| 1ra-2rb | Notitia Galliarum | ||
| 2rb-4rb | Praefatio to the False Decretals | ||
| 4va-6ra | Ordo 2 (ed. Schneider, MGH Ordines pp. 141-186; pp. 152-153 on BnF lat. 12445) | ||
| 6ra-6vb | Correspondence including JK †241 | ||
| 6vb-8vb | Pseudoisidorians passages on Nicaea | ||
| 8bis v | Excerpts on ecclesiastical structure (parochies, dioceses). The recto is empty. | 2v-3r | |
| 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 a glossary (differrent from that in Phil. 1741, fol. 19r-26r) | ||
| 17va-150vb | Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (capitulatio and main text) | 27r-33v, 35r-176v | |
| 151ra-153ra | Decretum Gelasianum (JK 700) | ||
| 153ra-156ra | Canones Theodori | ||
| 156va-163ra | Capitula Martini | ||
| 163ra-166vb | Capitula Angilramni | ||
| 167ra-184vb | Canon law collection only known from this manuscript. It begins with JK 764 (complete; Hispana version) and ends in mid-sentence of Carthage IV c. 85. Also, there is a change of hand fol. 184/185. Note that the Bibliotheca legum treat all the following materials as part of one very large canon law collection ("167ra-237rb Kirchenrechtliche Sammlung aus verschiedenen Quellen"), but Böhringer does not. | 193r-208r | |
| 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 in treating fol. 187va-199vb as one unit, while the Bibliotheca legum instead identifies the following pieces as separate entities (but all within the canon law collection fol. 67ra-237rb): | 179r-192r, 7v-9r, 9r-11r | |
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| 202vb | Gelasius JK 637 (according to Böhringer but not Bibliotheca legum) | 11r | |
| 202vb-203ra | According to Böhringer but not Bibliotheca legum: 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 where it is attributed to Leo the Great). | 11r-12v, 34v | |
| 204vb-208rb | Hincmar's Rotula prolixa (according to Böhringer but not Bibliotheca legum). | 13r-16v | |
| 208rb-208vb | Gregory I, JE 1860, Hilary JK 562, | 192v-193r | |
| 209ra-210ra | Gregory I JE 1729, Hilary JK 555, Leo JK 485, Gregory I, JE 1325, JE 1502, JE 1390 (end only) | desunt | |
| 210ra-224rb | Böhringer: Roman law not found in the Lex Romana Visigothorum: Leges novellae (Nov. Valent. 8,1 and 8,2) | desunt | |
| 224va-236rba | Gelasius I JK 664 (short version like Quesnelliana), Felix III JK 611, Gregory II, Decreta; series of canons on marital law (several conciliar canons, little Roman law, any many decretals: JK 255, JK 764, JE 1747, JE 1903, JE 1904, JE 1636, JK 339, JK 402, JK 286, JK 636, JK 544, JE 1495, JE 1496, JE 1753, JE 1770, JE 1820, JE 1918, JE 1915, JK 632. The passage also repeats a part of Hincmar's marriage tract. | desunt | |
| 236rb-237ra | JK 374; Rome 853 cc. 13-15, 18-23; Epitome Iuliani cc. 366, 511; JE 1482 | 16v-18r |
Sources
According to Böhringer, Traktat pp. 33-34 the formal sources of the canon law material in BnF lat. 12445 includes Pseudoisidore (though only for a handful of texts, namely the Capitula Angilramni and the African councils from the Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis), the Hadriana, the Collectio Sancti Amandi, the Registrum Gregorii. For some materials, the use of the Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis is possible but given the unusual readings Böhringer suspected the use of an unknown (lost) Hispana version and/vor the parallel use of the Collectio Sancti Amandi here. Above all she stressed Hincmar's ecclectic use of many sources, perhaps including lost ones, and the rarity of several of the decretals in BnF lat. 12445.
Literature
Maassen, Geschichte pp. 352, 403, 442 (Hadriana).- 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.
