Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Lat. 4403 B
Repository:
Paris (France)Bibliothèque Nationale
Lat. 4403 B
Siglum (by Eckhardt 1962): C 5
Digital image available at BnF
History:
Origin:
partly 8th/partly 9th century, Gaul (Hänel); 8th century
(foll. 1-7) / 9th
century (rest up to 95r), Luxeuil (Liebs); end of the 8th century,
Luxeuil
(Mordek); 8th/9th century (Mommsen,
Meyer); 8th
century (CLA) /
(beginning of the) 1st third of the 9th/9th
century, between Germany and France (?), partly around Trier area, school of
Luxeuil (Bischoff HA); end of the 8th
century, written in Luxeuil (Bischoff)
(Eckhardt 1962); 1st third of the 9th century, Luxeuil
(Bischoff)
Provenance:
Library of Charles IX. in Fontainebleau. Former
shelfmarks: 1052 (Rigault); 1151 (Dupuy); 5181 (Regius).
Physical description:
Quires: (IV-1)7 + 7.IV78 + (IV-1)85 + V95 + 2.IV111 + (II-1)114. The quires have been inverted: The fourth quire originally followed the second, the seventh quire the fifth. The order of the leaves is mixed up in quire one (2, 4-7, 1, 3) and quire four (25, 26, 23, 24, 29, 30, 27, 28). Quire numbers: fol. 3v, 15v, 22v, 28r, 38v, 62v, 70v.
Number: 115 foll. (fol. 19 & 19bis)
Size: 256 x 175 mm (gr. Part: 250 x 175)
Text block: 240 x 140 mm (gr. Part: 204 x 150 mm)
Lines: 32-33
Script: Blend of Caroline minuscule and half-uncial, multiple scribes, partly a mix of uncial and half-uncial, as well as charter hand on f. 95r (for further details, cf. Bischoff, Katalog 3, p. 94).
Binding: Brown leather on wood with golden printing (Leges Theodosii) and the coat of arms of Louis XIV.
Glosses:
Contents:
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1 - 95r
Lex Romana Visigothorum, Epitome Monachi. Incipit: [quam quatuor] menses permittatur quibus ex[actis] etiam si aliud beneficium dominorum [Epitome II, 6, 1, ed. Hänel p. 41]; due to a confused order the beginning of the Epitome starts on fol. 2r (ed. Hänel, p. 5-452). Explicit: … ut neuter coniugum sit locuplitior. Fol. 46v has a 10th-century list of names in reversed typeface, which von Boeren (p. 43) interpreted as a toll register, Bischoff (p. 94) as a list of wrongdoers. Transcription in Boeren p. 43, who locates the list to North-East-France. The names, however, are also traceable in 10th-century diplomas from Cluny.
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95v
Paulinus of Aquileia, neumed hymn for the feast of St. Peter and Paul (ed. Boucherie, Melanges latins, p. 10 f.).
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96v - 111v
Lex Salica (C-version). list of titles, excerpt from the prologue
and
text . Incipit:
INCIPIT PACTUS SALICAE LEGIS.
PRIMA DE MANNIRE … Explicit: … SOLIDUS XV CULPABILIS IUDICETUR EXC. CAP. ET
DEL. 111v: The last title is followed by a blessing from the
10th century (barely readable): Maria cuncta te cumfondat … Transcription in Boeren p. 43
f.
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112r - 114v
Greek fragment (sermon to Lucas)
