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Egerton MS 2832
- Record Id:
- 032-001984890
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001984890
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000057.0x0002fb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056032097.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2832
- Title:
- Collection of Canon Laws, Lex Salica; Lex Ripuaria; Capitulare Legibus Additum; Capitulare Missorum; Recapitulatio Solidorum; Capitulare Missorum Specialia; Capitulare Haristallense; Capitula Legi Addita; Capitula Legibus Addenda
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This manuscript consists of a collection of canon laws of the Merovingian and Carolingian period. It was produced in Northern France at the very end of the 9th century.
This volume was originally bound together with Paris, BnF lat. MS 4633 and Egerton MS 269. It has been divided in three different parts later, probably in the 16th century when in the possession of Pierre and François Pithou (see Provenance).
Lacking folios have been supplemented in the 17th century (ff. 6-7; 10-11).
Contents:
ff. 3r-4r: Fragment from the prologue of the Lex salica, (only the end, f. 3r), followed by capitula of the Lex salica emendata.
ff. 4v-27r: Lex Salica Emendata in seventy chapters, beginning: 'Si quis ad mallum legibus dominicis manitus fuerit'.
ff. 27r-44v: Lex Ripuaria, preceded by capitula (ff. 27r-29r).
ff. 45r-46v: Continuation of the Capitulare Legibus Additum (2-11). The beginning of the capitulation 2 is lacking but has been supplemented by a 16th-century hand.
ff. 46v-47v: Capitulare Missorum (Capitulary on legates) (1-28), beginning: 'Capitula de causis amonendis, de ecclesiis emendandis. Ubi in unum locum plures'.
ff. 47v-48v: Recapitulatio Solidorum, elaborated around 802-806 at the court of Charles the Great, it stated sums to pay for penance.
f. 48v: Capitulare Missorum Specialia (Special capitularies on legates).
ff. 48v-50v: Capitulare Haristallense, in the common version, beginning: 'XI anno feliciter regi domno nostro Karoli gloriosissimo regis in mense martio facta capitulare'.
ff. 50v-52r: Capitula Legi Addita, beginning: 'Incipit capitula Hluduvici imperatoris. Si quis cum altero de qualibet'.
ff. 52r-53v: Capitula Legibus Addenda, (1-16), beginning: 'De honore ecclesiarum. Si quis autem ex levi causa'.
Decoration:
Large and small initials in brown, a few with simple red penwork decoration.
Rubrics and numbers in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001984890
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001984890
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056032097.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 170 mm (text space: 175 x 120 mm)
Foliation: ff. ii + 53 ( + 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf after f. 2; ff. I and II are book-plates affixed to the inside upper cover; ff. 1 and 2 are paper flyleaves; ff. 6-7 and 10-11 are 17th-century parchment leaves.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Speckled binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France.
Provenance:
Pierre Pithou (b. 1539, d. 1596), lawyer, historian and humanist, and François Pithou (b. 1543, d. 1621), lawyer and humanist: note on their ownership by Desmares (f. 2r); used by Pierre Pithou for an edition of the Lex Salica.
François Desmarets, sieur of Palis and Luyères (b. 1630, d. 1697), lawyer, honorary doctor of law from the University of Paris: notes in Latin regarding the manuscript (e. g., ff. 4v; 9v); table of contents in his handwriting (f. 2r); inscription 'Desmares in curia patronus' (f. 2r).
One of the Presidents Le Peletier des Forts, probably Michel Le Peletier, marquis of Saint-Fargeau (b. 1760, d. 1793), lawyer, deputy of the National Convention and president à mortier: book-plate with arms (f. I).
Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchess of Berry (b. 1798; d. 1870): book-plate with 'Bibliothèque de Rosny' (f. II); sale of the Rosny library, 1837, lot 2401.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (b. 1784, d. 1855), French deputy and book collector: table of contents in French written by him, including his initial 'B' (f. 1r).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham: acquired with the other Barrois manuscripts in 1849.
Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his manuscript Barrois MS. 214; the Ashburnham-Barrois sale, 10 June 1901, lot 332 (inscribed '332' in blue pencil, in the lower left corner of the upper pastedown), bought by the British Museum, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum, 1907), no. Eg. 2832.
Wilhelm Köhler, 'Die Karolingischen Miniaturen', in Zweiter Bericht über die Denkmäler Deutscher Kunst (Berlin: Reimer, 1912), pp. 51-77 (p. 62).
Raymund Kottje, 'Zum Geltungsbereich der Lex Alamannorum', in Die transalpinen Verbindungen der Bayern, Alemannen und Franken bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, ed. by Helmut Beumann and Werner Schroder (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1987), pp. 359-77 (p. 353).
Rosamond McKitterick, The Carolingians and the Written Word (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 46, 52.
H. Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium regum Francorum manuscripta Uberlieferung und Traditionszusammenhang der frankischen Herrschererlasse (Munich, 1995), pp. 226-31.
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Die Divisio regnorum von 806 zwischen handschriftlicher Überlieferung und Historiographischer Rezeption', in Herrscher und Fürstentestamente im Westeuropäischen Mittelalter ed. by Brigitte Kasten (Cologne: Böhlau, 2008), pp. 193-258 (p. 244).
Thomas Faulkner, Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages: The Frankish Leges in the Carolingian Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 111, 133, 139, 143, 206, 207.
Karl Ubl, 'Gab es das Leges-Skriptorium Ludwigs des Frommen?', Deutsches Archiv, 70 (2014), 43-65 (p. 56).
'London, British Library, Egerton 2832' in Capitularia. Edition of the Frankish Capitularies, ed. by Karl Ubl and others, (Cologne, 2014) [accessed 27 June 2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.