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- Record Id:
- 032-002034852
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034852
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000046.0x000022
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059294012.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22398
- Title:
- Aileranus Sapiens, Canon evangeliorum; Ansegisus, Collection of capitularies; Edictum Pistense; Lex Salica; Capitulare legibus additum; Capitulare missorum generale; Alcuin, Disputatio Pippini cum Albino; Lex Ribuaria
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains the collection of capitularies made in 827 by Ansegisus (d. c. 833), abbot of Fontenelles. The manuscript includes various other Carolingian legal texts and two short tracts on urine and prognostics.
Contents:
f. 2r: A fragment of a breviary to the Gospel of Matthew in a late-9th-century hand followed by a letter of Pope Hadrian IV (b. c 1100, d. 1159) from 29 January 1155 in a hand from the second half of the 12th century.
f. 2v: Aileranus Sapiens (d. 665), Canon evangeliorum (The Eusebian Canons) in a 10th-century hand.
ff. 3r-55r: Ansegisus (d. 833), Collection of capitularies.
ff. 55v-68v: Edictum Pistense (Edict of Pîtres).
ff. 69r-88v: Lex Salica (The Salic law).
ff. 88v-89v: Capitulare legibus additum (Augmented Capitulary of Laws).
ff. 89v-90v: Capitulare missorum generale (General Capitulary on Legates).
f. 90v: Alcuin (b. 735, d. 804), Disputatio Pippini cum Albino (The Dialogue between King Pippin and Alcuin), beginning: ‘P[ippinus] dixit quid est littera’.
f. 91r-104r: Lex Ribuaria (The Ribuarian Law).
f. 104r: A tract on prognostics beginning: ‘Dies egyptiaci in quibus nullis’.
f. 104v: A tract on urine, beginning: ‘Signa urina qua cognoscetur cum nocte in calice miseris'.
This manuscript contains a few later additions:
f. 105r: Two hymns, one for the Feast of the Annunciation, the other for the consecration of a church, containing musical notation in an 11th-century hand, beginning ‘A clara die turma’.
ff. 106r-106v: Paraphrase sur le Stabat, in French verse followed by a text titled ‘Poenitentia vera nunquam sera’ in a 17th-century hand, beginning: ‘Extrait de la relation du voyage de Perse fait par le R. P. Pacifique de Prouins Predicateur Capucin. Imprimé à Paris l’an 1631 fol. 384’.
f. 1r: A table of contents in French in an 18th-century hand on paper.
[f. 1v is blank].
Decoration:
Numerous initials in brown, green and red. Brown and red capitals. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034852
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002034852
- Container:
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- 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_100059294012.0x000001
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- Languages:
- French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 0924
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 267 x 215 mm (text space: 180 x 220 mm, in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 106 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); ff. 2 and 105 are parchment leaves; and f. 106 is a paper leaf (with fold-out) added at a later point in time.
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding over wooden boards, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘Capitularia Regum Francorum’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
? The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Vierzon, founded in 843: Pope Hadrian IV’s letter on f. 2r is addressed to the abbey of Vierzon (see Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 94).
Thomas Boone (b. 1790, d. 1873) and William Boone (b. 1795, d. 1870), London booksellers: purchased from them by the British Museum with other manuscripts on 12 February 1858 for £117.12.0 (see the note on f. [iv] recto).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, in the Years 1854-1855 (London: British Museum, 1875), pp. 541-42.
Rosamond McKitterick, The Carolingians and the Written Word (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 46, 52.
Lotte Kéry, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1999), p. 94.
Rudolf Buchner, Textkritische Untersuchungen zur Lex Ribvaria, Schriften des Reichsinstituts für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde, 5 (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1940), pp. 83-84.
Lex Ribvaria, ed. by Franz Beyerle and Rudolf Buchner, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Leges Germanicarum, III, 2 (Hannover: Hahn, 1954), p. 37.
Pactus legis Salicae, ed. by Karl August Eckhardt, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Leges Germanicarum, IV, 1 (Hannover: Hahn, 1962), p. 22.
Hubert Mordek, Bibliotheca capitolarium regum Francorum manuscript: Überlieferung und Traditionszusammenhang der fränkischen Herrschererlasse, Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Hilfsmittel, 15 (Munich: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 1995), pp. 220-23.
Collectio capitularium Ansegisi, ed. by Gerhard Schmitz, Monumenta Germaniae Historica : Capitularia regum Francorum, Nova series, 1 (Hannover: Hahnsche, 1996), pp. 98-99.
Bernhard Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), ed. by Birgit Ebersperger, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der Mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, 2 vols (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998, 2004), II: Laon-Paderborn, p. 100.
Wilfried Hartmann, Kirche und Kirchenrecht um 900: Die Bedeutung der spätkarolingischen Zeit für Tradition und Innovation im kirchlichen Recht, Monumenta Germaniae Historica Schriften, 58 (Hannover: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 2008), p. 95 (n. 186), 96 (n. 196), 326-27.
Thomas Faulkner, Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages: The Frankish Leges in the Carolingian Period, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series, 104 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 110, 143, 256.
Karl Ubl, Sinnstiftungen eines Rechtsbuchs. Die Lex Salica im Frankenreich, Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittelalter, 9 (Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2017), pp. 241, 251.
- 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.