Appendix in BnF lat. 1454

Title	Appendix in BnF lat. 1454
Wikidata Item no.	?
Century	saec. VIII/IX
European region of origin	Northern France/Ecclesiastical Province of Tours?
Author	Till Stüber
Structure	farrago
No. of manuscripts	three

Transmission

In two manuscripts of the Collectio Quesnelliana (Paris, BnF, lat. 1454, saec. IX^3/4 [= Q] and lat. 3842A, saec. IX [= P]), this collection is followed by an appendix comprising a total of nineteen documents. The same appendix is also preserved in fragmentary form in the composite manuscript Paris, BnF, lat. 1458, saec. IX^1/2 [= O], fols. 64ra–87va (the fragment begins with the final words of the first item). On account of the close textual relationship to the two aforementioned Quesnelliana manuscripts, Mordek, Bibliotheca p. 413 already reached the plausible conclusion that the fragment contained in lat. 1458 represents the remnant of a now-lost manuscript of the Collectio Quesnelliana.

Date and place of composition

All three surviving manuscripts originate from northern France and were produced in the ninth century. However, the contents of the appendix open the possibility of an earlier date of composition: the terminus post quem for its compilation is the beginning of the eighth century, to which Michael D. Elliot dates the most recent text included therein (no. 4 = the penitential of Theodore of Canterbury in the recension of the so-called Discipulus Umbrensium). Noteworthy is the connection of several items to the ecclesiastical province of Tours. The Epistula episcoporum missa ad plebem (no. 15), for instance, is subscribed by four bishops of that province; the letter of Lupus and Eufronius is addressed to a bishop of Angers; and the same geographical context is suggested by the councils of Tours (461) and Vannes (461/491). The appendix may therefore have been compiled in the region of Tours, or else its compiler drew on sources originating from that area.

Structure and contents

The appendix itself exhibits no discernible organizing principle, whether thematic or chronological. It is therefore unlikely to represent a deliberately pre-conceived compilation of canonistic materials. Its formation is perhaps better understood as follows: to the archetype – a manuscript of the Collectio Quesnelliana – additional quires were appended, which the owner(s) gradually had filled with texts they considered worth preserving and that were otherwise unavailable in their library. Two items, namely a text entitled Differentia inter sacrificium et holocaustum (no. 1) – a late antique treatise on the merits of monastic life – and the Epistula episcoporum missa ad plebem (no. 15), an episcopal letter from Merovingian Gaul written around 560 AD, are transmitted exclusively in the appendix.

	Contents	Q	O	P
1	Differentia inter sacrificium et holocaustum	212v–213v	64ra	164r–165v
2	Ps.-Silverius: „Multis te transgressionibus“	213v–214r	64ra–rb	165v–166r
3	Leo I: „Remeantibus ad nos“ (J3 1030)	214r–216r	64rb–66ra	166r–168r
4	Iudicia Theodori (discipulus Umbrensium) - excerpts	216r–222v	66ra–71rb	168r–173v
5	Troianus of Saintes to Eumerius von Nîmes	222v	71rb	173v–174r
6	Caesarius of Arles: „Ecce manifestissime“	223r–224r	71va–72va	174r–175r
7	Gennadius of Marseille: Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum	224v–230r	72vb–76va	175r–180r
8	Scintillae de canonibus uel ordinationibus episcoporum	230r–v	76va–77rb	180r–v
9	Synod of Tours (461)	230v–232v	77rb–78rb	180v–182r
10	Synod of Paris (ca. 561)	232v–234v	78rb–79vb	182r–183v
11	Clovis I, Capitulary „Enuntiante fama“	234v-235r	79vb–80ra	183v
12	Synod of Orléans (511)	235r–237r	80ra–81vb	183v–185v
13	Statuta Ecclesiae antiqua	237r–240v	81vb–83vb	185v–187v
14	Gregory I: „Postquam excellentiae“ (J3 2859)	240v–241v	83vb–84rb	187v–188r
15	Epistula episcoporum missa ad plebem	241v–242r	84rb–vb	188r–189r
16	Epistula quae CCCXVIII episcopi Nicaeni transcripserunt	242r	84vb–85ra	189r
17	Letter of Lupus of Troyes and of Eufronius of Autun	242r–v	85ra–rb	189r–v
18	Synod of Vannes (461/91)	242v–244r	85rb–86rb	189v–190r
19	Notitia Galliarum (incl. Laterculus of Polemius Silvius)	244r–246r	86rb–87va	190r–191r

Literature

Mordek, Bibliotheca pp. 409-410, 412-414, 438-439; Stüber, Scintillae de canonibus