Canones ecclesiae Gallicanae (fragment)

France, 12th century

Parchment

i, 2, i' leaves

320–325 × 205–210 mm

Latin

1 (ff. 1ra–2vb) Canons of the Gallican church

Rubric: INcipit consilium uasense id est habitum era ccclxxx Incipiunt capitula

Incipit: vt gallicani episcopi in galliis non discutiantur

Explicit: quos studiosissime indicasse ostendit

Note: Contains canons from the council of Vaison in 442, the council of Orléans in 533, and the beginning of the council of Paris in 552.

Editions: Concilia Galliae a. 314-506, pp. 94–104; Concilia Galliae a. 511-695, pp. 98–103, 160–169.

Physical Description

Support

Binding/Endleaves

Locus: LCI, SL1, SR1, RCI

Support: Paper

Leaf dimensions: 325 × 210 mm

Textblock

Locus: ff. 1–2

Support: Parchment

Leaf dimensions: 320 × 205 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil.

Running titles in brown ink.

Condition

Textblock

Parchment darkened, faded and spotted, which somewhat affects legibility.

Layout

Columns: 2

Written lines: 51

Written area: 265 × 160 mm

Script

Textblock

Hand 1

Pregothic minuscule.

Additions

Binding/Endleaves

(LCI) Top of page, in pencil by a modern hand: ‘A 919’, ‘efter A. 248: Stockholm’, ‘se katalogblad A 919’; bottom of page, in pencil by a modern hand: ‘Omrubr. 1892 31 dec’.

(f. SL1r) Top of page, in black ink by a modern hand: ‘Canones ecclesiae Gallicanae 442-555. Uttaget från perg.blads depoten och rubricerade d. 31 Dec. 1892’.

Textblock

(f. 1r) Top of page, in pencil by a modern hand: ‘442.’, ‘Canones eccl. Gallicanae An. 442-555’.

(f. 1v) Bottom of page, in brown ink by an early modern hand (upside down): Three lines in Swedish.

(ff. 1r–2r) Scattered notes in pencil and ink by a modern and an early modern hand. The notes by the modern hand provides dates for different paragraphs.

Decorations

Textblock

Description:

Main text in brown ink, rubrics in red.

Initials:

Plain initials over 1-2 lines in red.

Binding

Description:

Modern binding. Parchment and marbled paper over cardboard. LCO: National Library book label with current signum.

Binding dimensions: 330 × 215 × 5 mm

Contemporary: No

Early provenance unknown. A note in Swedish on f. 1v shows that the fragment was used as a cover for accounts or other documents in 1582. This means that the fragment or the manuscript it belonged to may have been in Sweden since the Middle Ages.

Acquisition

The fragment was taken from a collection of uncatalogued parchment leaves in the National Library 31 December 1892 and bound in the current binding (see f. SL1r).