Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 1537

Settlement
Paris
Repository
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Shelfmark
Ms. lat. 1537
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Clara Renedo Mirambell
Revisions
2024-07-05 (Clara Renedo i Mirambell): Created entry.
2025-06-17 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Updated content.
Dating
11th c.
Place of origin / provenance
Septimania (?),
Successive provenance(s)
later in Narbonne (?)
Online catalogues
Archives et manuscrits - BnF
Scans
Scan (colors)
Quote as
Matthias M. Tischler, 'Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 1537', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/paris_bnf_ms_lat_01537.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

3r-64v, - Institutio canonicorum Aquisgranensis a. 816

Link to digitization: here.
Here a copy of the model which Louis the Pious had sent to Archbishop Sicarius of Bordeaux (see the emperor’s letter on fol. 1r–3r), but today with a loss of text between fol. 16v and 17r jumping from ch. 10 (expl.: “… Turpis lucri adpetitio est . plus de presentibus . quam de futuris cogitare ;”) to the beginning of ch. 82. On the upper margin of fol. 1r was an ownership inscription that was erased when the manuscript was transferred to Colbert’s library. However, at the end of the codex, in the lower third of fol. 64v, there is a 13th-century ownership inscription, which has been largely erased: “Iste liber est prioratus B‹…› Santonensis Diocesis”. If this exlibris is correctly read, the manuscript would have once belonged to the diocese of Saintes, which would confirm the special transmission of the Institutio canonicorum Aquisgranensis with Louis the Pious’ letter to Archbishop Sicarius of Bordeaux. It could be that this manuscript is that mentioned in the very brief modern description of the 17th-century contents in the catalogue of manuscripts given by Cardinal Pierre de Bonzi, archbishop of Narbonne (1673–1703), to M. Boudon for Colbert, among the 2o format codices as “Concilium Aquisgranense DCCCXVI.” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 9364, fol. 53r–54r, here fol. 53r): Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 147 col. a (“Is codex undecimo saeculo exaratus videtur”); Conciliorum Galliae Collectio 1789, p. VI; PERTZ 1835, p. XXIV (“s. X.”) and 219 (“sec. X.”); MAASSEN 1866, p. 200; BORETIUS 1883, p. 338 no 169; BORETIUS/KRAUSE 1897, p. XXI (“saec. X. vel XI.”); WERMINGHOFF 1899, p. 481 (“s. XI.”); WERMINGHOFF 1901, p. 18 (“saec. XI.”); WERMINGHOFF 1902a, p. 639 with n. 1 (“saec. XI.”); WERMINGHOFF 1906, p. 311 no 42 and p. 457 (“saec. XI.”); LAUER 1940, p. 58 sq.; SCHIEFFER 1976, p. 243 sq. n. 70; MORDEK 1995a, p. 1550 (“10. Jh.”); SCHMITZ 2007, p. 523 with n. 130. Digitization: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10465800c.