Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 4404

Settlement
Paris
Repository
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Shelfmark
Ms. lat. 4404
Creator of the description
Matthias M. Tischler
Initial encoding
Víctor Portella
Revisions
2025-05-15 (Victor Portella i Pahissa): Created entry.
Dating
802/814
Place of origin / provenance
region of Tours, for (?)· Saint-Sauveur d'Aniane
Successive provenance(s)
region of Tours, for (?)· Saint-Sauveur d'Aniane
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Matthias M. Tischler, 'Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat. 4404', Carolingian Catalonia Database, <https://ciceronianus.github.io/carolingian.cat/html/pages/manuscripts/paris_bnf_ms_lat_04404.html> [generated on 30 August 2026].

3rb-3rb, Alcuin (?) - Textus librorum legum

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Codex unicus for this short table of content, ascribed by Luitpold Wallach to Alcuin. The manuscript was copied by Audgarius whose name is written in form of a monogramme on fol. 214ra below (“AVDGARIVS NOMEN”). The manuscript is a unique compilation of legal texts accomplished by a ‘foreign person’ according to the colophon on fol. 3rb (“hos lege tu lector . felix feliciter omnes . et tu qui legis peregrini mei in bonis memento dilectissimae frater”; not mentioned by Colophons de manuscrits 1979, p. 39 sq.; Colophons de manuscrits 1982, p. 344). The manuscript was used by the lawyer Julien Brodeau (1585–1653) for the collation of the Lex Salica no later than May 25, 1612. This is perhaps the Aniane manuscript Étienne Baluze mentions for having used it for some texts in his Capitularia-edition of 1677. The manuscript came via Étienne de Rignac, conseiller des aides in Montpellier, to Paris and was on February 6, 1682 in the library of Colbert. It is mentioned in the catalogues of Étienne de Rignac and Étienne Baluze respectively: “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica. Lex Alamanorum. Lex Ribuariorum. Decreta Clotarij, Childeberti, Karoli Magni” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat 9364, fol. 74v) and “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica, Alamannorum, Ribuariorum” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Baluze, Ms. 100, fol. 176v). Baluze added on fol. 1r the note “Codex iste in bibliothecam Colbertinam delatus est e Gallia Narbonensi anno MDCLXXXII. Stephanus Baluzius”. Did he try to conceal the manuscript’s origin from Aniane with the generalizing geographical term “Gallia Narbonensis”?: BALUZE 1677, 1, Praefatio no LXXX; Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 589 col. a (“Is codex nono sæculo exaratus videtur”; the text is not mentioned); PERTZ 1835, p. XXI (“s. IX”); PERTZ 1839a, p. 733–735, here p. 733 (“aus den ersten Jahren des 9. Jahrhunderts”); PARDESSUS 1843, p. X–XIII no III, here p. XI and XIII; WAITZ 1846, p. 3 sq. (“9ten Jahrh. … auf westfränkischem Boden und zwar im Süden des Landes entstanden zu sein schein[t]”); HAENEL 1849, p. XLIV with n. 38 sq. and 41 sq. (“Scriptus est codex in Gallia saeculo IX”); PERTZ 1863, p. 2 (“primis saeculi IX annis in Gallia Narbonensi scriptus”); WATTENBACH 1875, p. 418 n. 1; CLEMEN 1889–1890, p. 258 with n. 2 (“Anfang des 9. Jahrhunderts”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905a, p. LXXI sq. (p. LXXI: “saec. IX”), here p. LXXI (the text is not identified); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905b, p. XXXVII (“saec. IX”); LINDSAY 1915, p. 472 (the text is not mentioned); LINDSAY 1923a, p. 45 (“803–814”); KRUSCH 1924, p. 181; TAFEL 1925, p. 54 (qualified as Lyons manuscript; the text is not mentioned); KRUSCH 1927, p. 180–188 (p. 180: “9. Jahrh.”), here p. 181 sq. and 188 (the text is not identified), and pl. VIII (fol. 197v); RAND 1927, p. 59 no 10; SCHRAMM 1928, p. 53 n. 2; RAND 1929, 1, p. 116 sq. no 45; RAND 1929, 2, pl. LVII (fol. 2v) and LVIII.1 (fol. 6r); RAND 1931, p. 591 with n. 10 and p. 592 with n. 1; LESNE 1938, p. 157 with n. 2, p. 162 with n. 2 and p. 517 with n. 18 (here qualified as possession of the Church of Lyons); RAND 1939, p. 425 n. 1 (“écriture de la fin du huitième ou du commencement du neuvième siècle, mais pas celle de Tours”); MICHELI 1939, p. 95 fig. 135 (fol. 6r, detail); CHARLIER 1945, p. 83 (qualified as used by Florus of Lyons); STEIN 1947, p. 125, 128 sq. and 400 (“between 800 and 813”); BUCHNER 1952, p. 61 with n. 5 and p. 71; BEYERLE/BUCHNER 1954, p. 33 sq. (“Wohl 1. Viertel des 9. Jahrhunderts”); Les manuscrits à peintures 1954, p. 43 no 107 (“Narbonnaise (?), première moitié du IXe siècle”); WALLACH 1958, p. 255–259 with n. 7 and 12 sq. (“s. IX … possible Turonian provenance … probably written between 803 and 804 … between the years from 804 to 814”); ECKHARDT 1962, p. XIII sq. (“nach Karls Kaiserkrönung im Jahre 800 geschrieben ... noch zu seinen Lebzeiten, also vor 28. 1. 814, und zwar in der Nähe von Tours (nicht in Lyon)”); HOMBURGER 1962, p. 46 n. 1; SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1962, 1, p. 535; COURCELLE 1964, p. 382 and pl. 66 (fol. 1v/2r); BISCHOFF 1965b, p. 240 with n. 50; PORCHER 1965, p. 63 with n. 29 and pl. XXVII (fol. 1v/2r); RAMBAUD-BUHOT 1965, p. 337; LEHMANN/ECKHARDT 1966, p. 13 (“saeculi IX. ineuntis”); ECKHARDT 1967, p. 2 sq.; BISCHOFF 1968, p. 311 (“Umkreis von Tours”); BEUTLER 1977, p. 45 with n. 23; MÜTHERICH 1977, p. 270 sq. with n. 30 and p. 274 n. 30; MCKITTERICK 1980b, p. 16 sq. and 19–21 (“written in the ninth century ... which presumably belonged to a magnate or court official, probably in the south or south-east of the kingdom … early-ninth century”), here p. 20; La Neustrie 1985, p. 65 sq. no 7 with fig. (fol. 2v) [MARIE-THÉRÈSE GOUSSET] and p. 82 (fig. 1v); HOFFMANN 1986, 1, p. 527 no 5a (“Tours? 9. Jahrhundert”); MCKITTERICK 1989, p. 45 with n. 67 (“written between 800 and 814 … a book from the Tours region, possibly belonging to a magnate or court official”), p. 48 table A (“s. IXin (800–14) … Tours region … law book (comital collection)”) and p. 59 with n. 82; KESSLER 1992, p. 654 and fig. 4 (fol. 1v/2r); The art of medieval Spain 1993, p. 160 sq. with n. 5 [JOHN WESLEY WILLIAMS]; MÜTHERICH 1994, p. 83 fig. 5 sq. (fol. 1v/2r and 197v), p. 84 and 86; MORDEK 1995a, p. 211 (“aus (der Nähe von) Tours”) and p. 456–463 (p. 456: “9. Jh., Anfang (nach 804), wohl Tours”), here p. 458 and 461; MORDEK 1996a, p. 64 with n. 114; DUTTON/KESSLER 1997, p. 72; FAVIER 1999, p. 350 sq. and fig. 19 (fol. 1v/2r); JULLIEN/PERELMAN 1999, p. 492; Trésors carolingiens 2007, p. 164 sq. no 40 [CHARLOTTE DENOËL]; ZANICHELLI 2012, p. 15; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 94 sq. no 4304 (“Umkreis von Tours … Zeit Karls des Großen”; the text is not mentioned); COMA Y FORT 2014, p. 135–137 no XI (p. 135: “siglo IX, concretamente copiada después de 803 … Proviene de la zona del valle del Loira, quizá de Tours … posiblement nos encontremos ante una copia preparade para la cancillería imperial o encargada por algún personaje relevante”), here p. 135 sq. with n. 109 and 112; GANZ 2015, p. 273; FAULKNER 2016, p. 108 (“produced at some stage shortly after 804”), 198 (“IXinc.”; mentioned among “legal manuscripts associated with Tours”) and 232 (“Tours … from 804 or so”); KLEINE 2016, p. 128 with n. 35; KOSTO 2016, p. 294 with n. 29; Les temps mérovingiens 2016; UBL 2017, p. 69 n. 11, p. 102 sq. with n. 19 and 21, p. 177 with n. 66, p. 190 with n. 127 sq. and p. 228 sq. with n. 40 sq. (“eine Produktion im Umfeld des Abtes Fridugis von Tours, und zwar im von Tours abhängigen Kloster Cormery ... Adressat[...] ... Benedikt von Aniane”); GLATTHAAR. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

232vb-233vb, Sine auctore - Capitulare legibus additum (a. 803)

Link to digitization: here.
The manuscript was copied by Audgarius whose name is written in form of a monogramme on fol. 214ra below (“AVDGARIVS NOMEN”). The manuscript is a unique compilation of legal texts accomplished by a ‘foreign person’ according to the colophon on fol. 3rb (“hos lege tu lector . felix feliciter omnes . et tu qui legis peregrini mei in bonis memento dilectissimae frater”; not mentioned by Colophons de manuscrits 1979, p. 39 sq.; Colophons de manuscrits 1982, p. 344). The Capitulare is added by a contemporary hand in a slightly darker ink. The manuscript was used by the lawyer Julien Brodeau (1585–1653) for the collation of the Lex Salica no later than May 25, 1612. This is perhaps the Aniane manuscript Étienne Baluze mentions for having used it for some texts in his Capitularia-edition of 1677. The manuscript came via Étienne de Rignac, conseiller des aides in Montpellier, to Paris and was on February 6, 1682 in the library of Colbert. It is mentioned in the catalogues of Étienne de Rignac and Étienne Baluze respectively: “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica. Lex Alamanorum. Lex Ribuariorum. Decreta Clotarij, Childeberti, Karoli Magni” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat 9364, fol. 74v) and “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica, Alamannorum, Ribuariorum” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Baluze, Ms. 100, fol. 176v). Baluze added on fol. 1r the note “Codex iste in bibliothecam Colbertinam delatus est e Gallia Narbonensi anno MDCLXXXII. Stephanus Baluzius”. Did he try to conceal the manuscript’s origin from Aniane with the generalizing geographical term “Gallia Narbonensis”?: BALUZE 1677, 1, Praefatio no LXXX; Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 589 col. a no 11 (“Decreta quæ in Lege Salica mittenda sunt, addita à Carolo Magno, anno tertio imperii sui. Is codex nono sæculo exaratus videtur”); N. N. 1819, p. 311; PERTZ 1835, p. XXI and 112 (“s. IX”); PERTZ 1839a, p. 733–735, here p. 735 (“aus den ersten Jahren des 9. Jahrhunderts”; the text is not mentioned); PARDESSUS 1843, p. X–XIII no III, here p. XII (with the wrong identification “le second capitulaire de 803; ce sont des additions de Charlemagne à la loi Salique. Mais ce capitulaire n’est pas terminé, le manuscrit étant incomplet à la fin”); WAITZ 1846, p. 3 sq. with n. 2 (“9ten Jahrh. … auf westfränkischem Boden und zwar im Süden des Landes entstanden zu sein schein[t] … andere Gesetze aus karolingischer Zeit”); HAENEL 1849, p. XLIV with n. 38 sq. and 42 (“Scriptus est codex in Gallia saeculo IX”); PERTZ 1863, p. 2 (“primis saeculi IX annis in Gallia Narbonensi scriptus”); BORETIUS 1883, p. 111 no 39; CLEMEN 1889–1890, p. 258 with n. 2 (“Anfang des 9. Jahrhunderts”); BORETIUS/KRAUSE 1897, p. XXII (“saec. IX. in.”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905a, p. LXXI sq. (p. LXXI: “saec. IX”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905b, p. XXXVII (“saec. IX”); LINDSAY 1915, p. 472 (the text is not mentioned); LINDSAY 1923a, p. 45 (“803–814”); TAFEL 1925, p. 54 (qualified as a Lyons manuscript; the text is not mentioned); KRUSCH 1927, p. 180–188 (p. 180: “9. Jahrh.”), here p. 182 and p. 188 with n. 2, and pl. VIII (fol. 197v); RAND 1927, p. 59 no 10; SCHRAMM 1928, p. 53 n. 2; RAND 1929, 1, p. 116 sq. no 45; RAND 1929, 2, pl. LVII (fol. 2v) and LVIII.1 (fol. 6r); RAND 1931, p. 591 with n. 10 and p. 592 with n. 1; LESNE 1938, p. 157 with n. 2, p. 162 with n. 2 and p. 517 with n. 18 (here qualified as possession of the Church of Lyons); RAND 1939, p. 425 n. 1 (“écriture de la fin du huitième ou du commencement du neuvième siècle, mais pas celle de Tours”); MICHELI 1939, p. 95 fig. 135 (fol. 6r, detail); CHARLIER 1945, p. 83 (qualified as used by Florus of Lyons); STEIN 1947, p. 400 (“between 800 and 813 … subsequently added”); BUCHNER 1952, p. 71; BEYERLE/BUCHNER 1954, p. 33 sq. (“Wohl 1. Viertel des 9. Jahrhunderts”); Les manuscrits à peintures 1954, p. 43 no 107 (“Narbonnaise (?), première moitié du IXe siècle”); WALLACH 1958, p. 255 and 258 sq. (“s. IX … possible Turonian provenance … written by another, but contemporary scribe … probably written between 803 and 804 … between the years from 804 to 814”); ECKHARDT 1962, p. XIII sq. (“nach Karls Kaiserkrönung im Jahre 800 geschrieben ... noch zu seinen Lebzeiten, also vor 28. 1. 814, und zwar in der Nähe von Tours (nicht in Lyon)”); HOMBURGER 1962, p. 46 n. 1; SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1962, 1, p. 535; COURCELLE 1964, p. 382 and pl. 66 (fol. 1v/2r); BISCHOFF 1965b, p. 240 with n. 50; PORCHER 1965, p. 63 with n. 29 and pl. XXVII (fol. 1v/2r); RAMBAUD-BUHOT 1965, p. 337; LEHMANN/ECKHARDT 1966, p. 13 (“saeculi IX. ineuntis”); ECKHARDT 1967, p. 2 sq.; BISCHOFF 1968, p. 311 (“Umkreis von Tours”); BEUTLER 1977, p. 45 with n. 23; MÜTHERICH 1977, p. 270 sq. with n. 30 and p. 274 n. 30; MCKITTERICK 1980b, p. 16 sq. and 19–21 (“written in the ninth century ... which presumably belonged to a magnate or court official, probably in the south or south-east of the kingdom … early-ninth century”); La Neustrie 1985, p. 65 sq. no 7 with fig. (fol. 2v) [MARIE-THÉRÈSE GOUSSET] and p. 82 (fig. 1v); BÜHLER 1986, p. 350–354; HOFFMANN 1986, 1, p. 527 no 5a (“Tours? 9. Jahrhundert”); MORDEK 1986b, p. 37; MCKITTERICK 1989, p. 36 with n. 46, p. 45 with n. 67 (“written between 800 and 814 … a book from the Tours region, possibly belonging to a magnate or court official”), p. 48 table A (“s. IXin (800–14) … Tours region … law book (comital collection)”) and p. 59 with n. 82; KESSLER 1992, p. 654 and fig. 4 (fol. 1v/2r); The art of medieval Spain 1993, p. 160 sq. with n. 5 [JOHN WESLEY WILLIAMS]; MÜTHERICH 1994, p. 83 fig. 5 sq. (fol. 1v/2r and 197v), p. 84 and 86; MORDEK 1995a, p. 211 (“aus (der Nähe von) Tours”) and p. 456–463 (p. 456: “9. Jh., Anfang (nach 804), wohl Tours”), here p. 457 and 461 (“von anderer, etwa gleichzeitiger Hand”); MORDEK 1996a, p. 64 with n. 114; MORDEK 1996b, p. 493; DUTTON/KESSLER 1997, p. 72; FAVIER 1999, p. 350 sq. and fig. 19 (fol. 1v/2r); MORDEK 2000a, p. 37; Trésors carolingiens 2007, p. 164 sq. no 40 [CHARLOTTE DENOËL]; ZANICHELLI 2012, p. 15; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 94 sq. no 4304 (“Umkreis von Tours … Zeit Karls des Großen”); COMA Y FORT 2014, p. 135–137 no XI (p. 135: “siglo IX, concretamente copiada después de 803 … Proviene de la zona del valle del Loira, quizá de Tours … posiblement nos encontremos ante una copia preparade para la cancillería imperial o encargada por algún personaje relevante”), here p. 135 and 137; GANZ 2015, p. 273; FAULKNER 2016, p. 108 (“produced at some stage shortly after 804”), 110 sq. (“c. 805”), 145, 198 (“IXinc.”; mentioned among “legal manuscripts associated with Tours”) and 232 (“Tours … from 804 or so”); KLEINE 2016, p. 128 with n. 35; Les temps mérovingiens 2016; UBL 2017, p. 177 with n. 66, p. 227 with n. 36, p. 228 sq. with n. 40 sq. (“eine Produktion im Umfeld des Abtes Fridugis von Tours, und zwar im von Tours abhängigen Kloster Cormery ... Adressat[...] ... Benedikt von Aniane”) and p. 229 sq.; COUMERT 2023; GLATTHAAR. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

233vb-234rb, Sine auctore - Capitulare missorum

Link to digitization: here.
The manuscript was copied by Audgarius whose name is written in form of a monogramme on fol. 214ra below (“AVDGARIVS NOMEN”). The manuscript is a unique compilation of legal texts accomplished by a ‘foreign person’ according to the colophon on fol. 3rb (“hos lege tu lector . felix feliciter omnes . et tu qui legis peregrini mei in bonis memento dilectissimae frater”; not mentioned by Colophons de manuscrits 1979, p. 39 sq.; Colophons de manuscrits 1982, p. 344). The Capitulare is added by a contemporary hand in a slightly darker ink. The manuscript was used by the lawyer Julien Brodeau (1585–1653) for the collation of the Lex Salica no later than May 25, 1612. This is perhaps the Aniane manuscript Étienne Baluze mentions for having used it for some texts in his Capitularia-edition of 1677. The manuscript came via Étienne de Rignac, conseiller des aides in Montpellier, to Paris and was on February 6, 1682 in the library of Colbert. It is mentioned in the catalogues of Étienne de Rignac and Étienne Baluze respectively: “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica. Lex Alamanorum. Lex Ribuariorum. Decreta Clotarij, Childeberti, Karoli Magni” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat 9364, fol. 74v) and “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica, Alamannorum, Ribuariorum” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Baluze, Ms. 100, fol. 176v). Baluze added on fol. 1r the note “Codex iste in bibliothecam Colbertinam delatus est e Gallia Narbonensi anno MDCLXXXII. Stephanus Baluzius”. Did he try to conceal the manuscript’s origin from Aniane with the generalizing geographical term “Gallia Narbonensis”?: BALUZE 1677, 1, Praefatio no LXXX; Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 589 col. a no 11 (“Decreta quæ in Lege Salica mittenda sunt, addita à Carolo Magno, anno tertio imperii sui. Is codex nono sæculo exaratus videtur”); PERTZ 1835, p. XXI and 114 (“s. IX”); PERTZ 1839a, p. 733–735, here p. 735 (“aus den ersten Jahren des 9. Jahrhunderts”; the text is not mentioned); PARDESSUS 1843, p. X–XIII no III, here p. XII (with the wrong identification “le second capitulaire de 803; ce sont des additions de Charlemagne à la loi Salique. Mais ce capitulaire n’est pas terminé, le manuscrit étant incomplet à la fin”); WAITZ 1846, p. 3 sq. with n. 2 (“9ten Jahrh. … auf westfränkischem Boden und zwar im Süden des Landes entstanden zu sein schein[t] … andere Gesetze aus karolingischer Zeit”); HAENEL 1849, p. XLIV with n. 38 sq. and 42 (“Scriptus est codex in Gallia saeculo IX”); PERTZ 1863, p. 2 (“primis saeculi IX annis in Gallia Narbonensi scriptus”); BORETIUS 1883, p. 114 sq. no 40; CLEMEN 1889–1890, p. 258 with n. 2 (“Anfang des 9. Jahrhunderts”); BORETIUS/KRAUSE 1897, p. XXII (“saec. IX. in.”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905a, p. LXXI sq. (p. LXXI: “saec. IX”), here p. LXXII (“item capitularia quaedam”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905b, p. XXXVII (“saec. IX”); LINDSAY 1915, p. 472 (the text is not mentioned); LINDSAY 1923a, p. 45 (“803–814”); TAFEL 1925, p. 54 (qualified as Lyons manuscript; the text is not mentioned); KRUSCH 1927, p. 180–188 (p. 180: “9. Jahrh.”), here p. 182 and p. 188 with n. 2, and pl. VIII (fol. 197v); RAND 1927, p. 59 no 10; SCHRAMM 1928, p. 53 n. 2; RAND 1929, 1, p. 116 sq. no 45; RAND 1929, 2, pl. LVII (fol. 2v) and LVIII.1 (fol. 6r); RAND 1931, p. 591 with n. 10 and p. 592 with n. 1; LESNE 1938, p. 157 with n. 2, p. 162 with n. 2 and p. 517 with n. 18 (here qualified as possession of the Church of Lyons); RAND 1939, p. 425 n. 1 (“écriture de la fin du huitième ou du commencement du neuvième siècle, mais pas celle de Tours”); MICHELI 1939, p. 95 fig. 135 (fol. 6r, detail); CHARLIER 1945, p. 83 (qualified as used by Florus of Lyons); STEIN 1947, p. 400 (“between 800 and 813 … subsequently added”); BUCHNER 1952, p. 71; BEYERLE/BUCHNER 1954, p. 33 sq. (“Wohl 1. Viertel des 9. Jahrhunderts”); Les manuscrits à peintures 1954, p. 43 no 107 (“Narbonnaise (?), première moitié du IXe siècle”); WALLACH 1958, p. 255 and 258 sq. (“s. IX … possible Turonian provenance … written by another, but contemporary scribe … probably written between 803 and 804 … between the years from 804 to 814”); ECKHARDT 1962, p. XIII sq. (“nach Karls Kaiserkrönung im Jahre 800 geschrieben ... noch zu seinen Lebzeiten, also vor 28. 1. 814, und zwar in der Nähe von Tours (nicht in Lyon)”); HOMBURGER 1962, p. 46 n. 1; SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1962, 1, p. 535; COURCELLE 1964, p. 382 and pl. 66 (fol. 1v/2r); BISCHOFF 1965b, p. 240 with n. 50; PORCHER 1965, p. 63 with n. 29 and pl. XXVII (fol. 1v/2r); RAMBAUD-BUHOT 1965, p. 337; LEHMANN/ECKHARDT 1966, p. 13 (“saeculi IX. ineuntis”); ECKHARDT 1967, p. 2 sq.; BISCHOFF 1968, p. 311 (“Umkreis von Tours”); BEUTLER 1977, p. 45 with n. 23; MÜTHERICH 1977, p. 270 sq. with n. 30 and p. 274 n. 30; MCKITTERICK 1980b, p. 16 sq. and 19–21 (“written in the ninth century ... which presumably belonged to a magnate or court official, probably in the south or south-east of the kingdom … early-ninth century”); La Neustrie 1985, p. 65 sq. no 7 with fig. (fol. 2v) [MARIE-THÉRÈSE GOUSSET] and p. 82 (fig. 1v); BÜHLER 1986, p. 350–354; HOFFMANN 1986, 1, p. 527 no 5a (“Tours? 9. Jahrhundert”); MORDEK 1986b, p. 37; MCKITTERICK 1989, p. 36 with n. 46, p. 45 with n. 67 (“written between 800 and 814 … a book from the Tours region, possibly belonging to a magnate or court official”), p. 48 table A (“s. IXin (800–14) … Tours region … law book (comital collection)”) and p. 59 with n. 82; KESSLER 1992, p. 654 and fig. 4 (fol. 1v/2r); The art of medieval Spain 1993, p. 160 sq. with n. 5 [JOHN WESLEY WILLIAMS]; MÜTHERICH 1994, p. 83 fig. 5 sq. (fol. 1v/2r and 197v), p. 84 and 86; MORDEK 1995a, p. 211 (“aus (der Nähe von) Tours”) and p. 456–463 (p. 456: “9. Jh., Anfang (nach 804), wohl Tours”), here p. 457 and 461 (“von anderer, etwa gleichzeitiger Hand”); MORDEK 1996a, p. 64 with n. 114; MORDEK 1996b, p. 493; DUTTON/KESSLER 1997, p. 72; FAVIER 1999, p. 350 sq. and fig. 19 (fol. 1v/2r); MORDEK 2000a, p. 37; Trésors carolingiens 2007, p. 164 sq. no 40 [CHARLOTTE DENOËL]; ZANICHELLI 2012, p. 15; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 94 sq. no 4304 (“Umkreis von Tours … Zeit Karls des Großen”); COMA Y FORT 2014, p. 135–137 no XI (p. 135: “siglo IX, concretamente copiada después de 803 … Proviene de la zona del valle del Loira, quizá de Tours … posiblement nos encontremos ante una copia preparade para la cancillería imperial o encargada por algún personaje relevante”), here p. 137; GANZ 2015, p. 273; FAULKNER 2016, p. 108 (“produced at some stage shortly after 804”), 110 sq. (“c. 805”), 145, 198 (“IXinc.”; mentioned among “legal manuscripts associated with Tours”) and 232 (“Tours … from 804 or so”); KLEINE 2016, p. 128 with n. 35; Les temps mérovingiens 2016; UBL 2017, p. 177 with n. 66, p. 227 with n. 36, p. 228 sq. with n. 40 sq. (“eine Produktion im Umfeld des Abtes Fridugis von Tours, und zwar im von Tours abhängigen Kloster Cormery ... Adressat[...] ... Benedikt von Aniane”) and p. 229 sq.; GLATTHAAR. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

234rb-234va, Sine auctore - Capitulare per missos cognita facienda (a. 803/813)

Link to digitization: here.
The manuscript was copied by Audgarius whose name is written in form of a monogramme on fol. 214ra below (“AVDGARIVS NOMEN”). The manuscript is a unique compilation of legal texts accomplished by a ‘foreign person’ according to the colophon on fol. 3rb (“hos lege tu lector . felix feliciter omnes . et tu qui legis peregrini mei in bonis memento dilectissimae frater”; not mentioned by Colophons de manuscrits 1979, p. 39 sq.; Colophons de manuscrits 1982, p. 344). The Capitulare is added by a contemporary hand in a slightly darker ink. The manuscript was used by the lawyer Julien Brodeau (1585–1653) for the collation of the Lex Salica no later than May 25, 1612. This is perhaps the Aniane manuscript Étienne Baluze mentions for having used it for some texts in his Capitularia-edition of 1677. The manuscript came via Étienne de Rignac, conseiller des aides in Montpellier, to Paris and was on February 6, 1682 in the library of Colbert. It is mentioned in the catalogues of Étienne de Rignac and Étienne Baluze respectively: “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica. Lex Alamanorum. Lex Ribuariorum. Decreta Clotarij, Childeberti, Karoli Magni” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat 9364, fol. 74v) and “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica, Alamannorum, Ribuariorum” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Baluze, Ms. 100, fol. 176v). Baluze added on fol. 1r the note “Codex iste in bibliothecam Colbertinam delatus est e Gallia Narbonensi anno MDCLXXXII. Stephanus Baluzius”. Did he try to conceal the manuscript’s origin from Aniane with the generalizing geographical term “Gallia Narbonensis”?: BALUZE 1677, 1, Praefatio no LXXX; Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 589 col. a no 11 (“Decreta quæ in Lege Salica mittenda sunt, addita à Carolo Magno, anno tertio imperii sui. Is codex nono sæculo exaratus videtur”); PERTZ 1835, p. XXI and 146 (“s. IX”); PERTZ 1839a, p. 733–735, here p. 735 (“aus den ersten Jahren des 9. Jahrhunderts”; the text is not mentioned); PARDESSUS 1843, p. X–XIII no III, here p. XII (with the wrong identification “le second capitulaire de 803; ce sont des additions de Charlemagne à la loi Salique. Mais ce capitulaire n’est pas terminé, le manuscrit étant incomplet à la fin”); WAITZ 1846, p. 3 sq. with n. 2 (“9ten Jahrh. … auf westfränkischem Boden und zwar im Süden des Landes entstanden zu sein schein[t] … andere Gesetze aus karolingischer Zeit”); HAENEL 1849, p. XLIV with n. 38 sq. and 42 (“Scriptus est codex in Gallia saeculo IX”); PERTZ 1863, p. 2 (“primis saeculi IX annis in Gallia Narbonensi scriptus”); BORETIUS 1883, p. 155 sq. no 67; CLEMEN 1889–1890, p. 258 with n. 2 (“Anfang des 9. Jahrhunderts”); BORETIUS/KRAUSE 1897, p. XXII (“saec. IX. in.”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905a, p. LXXI sq. (p. LXXI: “saec. IX”), here p. LXXII (“item capitularia quaedam”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905b, p. XXXVII (“saec. IX”); LINDSAY 1915, p. 472 (the text is not mentioned); LINDSAY 1923a, p. 45 (“803–814”); TAFEL 1925, p. 54 (qualified as Lyons manuscript; the text is not mentioned); KRUSCH 1927, p. 180–188 (p. 180: “9. Jahrh.”), here p. 182 and p. 188 with n. 2, and pl. VIII (fol. 197v); RAND 1927, p. 59 no 10; SCHRAMM 1928, p. 53 n. 2; RAND 1929, 1, p. 116 sq. no 45; RAND 1929, 2, pl. LVII (fol. 2v) and LVIII.1 (fol. 6r); RAND 1931, p. 591 with n. 10 and p. 592 with n. 1; LESNE 1938, p. 157 with n. 2, p. 162 with n. 2 and p. 517 with n. 18 (here qualified as possession of the Church of Lyons); RAND 1939, p. 425 n. 1 (“écriture de la fin du huitième ou du commencement du neuvième siècle, mais pas celle de Tours”); MICHELI 1939, p. 95 fig. 135 (fol. 6r, detail); CHARLIER 1945, p. 83 (qualified as used by Florus of Lyons); STEIN 1947, p. 400 (“between 800 and 813 … subsequently added”); BUCHNER 1952, p. 71; BEYERLE/BUCHNER 1954, p. 33 sq. (“Wohl 1. Viertel des 9. Jahrhunderts”); Les manuscrits à peintures 1954, p. 43 no 107 (“Narbonnaise (?), première moitié du IXe siècle”); WALLACH 1958, p. 255 and 258 sq. (“s. IX … possible Turonian provenance … written by another, but contemporary scribe … probably written between 803 and 804 … between the years from 804 to 814”); ECKHARDT 1962, p. XIII sq. (“nach Karls Kaiserkrönung im Jahre 800 geschrieben ... noch zu seinen Lebzeiten, also vor 28. 1. 814, und zwar in der Nähe von Tours (nicht in Lyon)”); HOMBURGER 1962, p. 46 n. 1; SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1962, 1, p. 535; COURCELLE 1964, p. 382 and pl. 66 (fol. 1v/2r); BISCHOFF 1965b, p. 240 with n. 50; PORCHER 1965, p. 63 with n. 29 and pl. XXVII (fol. 1v/2r); RAMBAUD-BUHOT 1965, p. 337; LEHMANN/ECKHARDT 1966, p. 13 (“saeculi IX. ineuntis”); ECKHARDT 1967, p. 2 sq.; BISCHOFF 1968, p. 311 (“Umkreis von Tours”); BEUTLER 1977, p. 45 with n. 23; MÜTHERICH 1977, p. 270 sq. with n. 30 and p. 274 n. 30; MCKITTERICK 1980b, p. 16 sq. and 19–21 (“written in the ninth century ... which presumably belonged to a magnate or court official, probably in the south or south-east of the kingdom … early-ninth century”); La Neustrie 1985, p. 65 sq. no 7 with fig. (fol. 2v) [MARIE-THÉRÈSE GOUSSET] and p. 82 (fig. 1v); BÜHLER 1986, p. 350–354; HOFFMANN 1986, 1, p. 527 no 5a (“Tours? 9. Jahrhundert”); MORDEK 1986b, p. 37; MCKITTERICK 1989, p. 36 with n. 46, p. 45 with n. 67 (“written between 800 and 814 … a book from the Tours region, possibly belonging to a magnate or court official”), p. 48 table A (“s. IXin (800–14) … Tours region … law book (comital collection)”) and p. 59 with n. 82; KESSLER 1992, p. 654 and fig. 4 (fol. 1v/2r); The art of medieval Spain 1993, p. 160 sq. with n. 5 [JOHN WESLEY WILLIAMS]; MÜTHERICH 1994, p. 83 fig. 5 sq. (fol. 1v/2r and 197v), p. 84 and 86; MORDEK 1995a, p. 211 (“aus (der Nähe von) Tours”) and p. 456–463 (p. 456: “9. Jh., Anfang (nach 804), wohl Tours”), here p. 457 and 461 (“von anderer, etwa gleichzeitiger Hand”); MORDEK 1996a, p. 64 with n. 114; MORDEK 1996b, p. 493; DUTTON/KESSLER 1997, p. 72; FAVIER 1999, p. 350 sq. and fig. 19 (fol. 1v/2r); MORDEK 2000a, p. 37; Trésors carolingiens 2007, p. 164 sq. no 40 [CHARLOTTE DENOËL]; ZANICHELLI 2012, p. 15; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 94 sq. no 4304 (“Umkreis von Tours … Zeit Karls des Großen”); COMA Y FORT 2014, p. 135–137 no XI (p. 135: “siglo IX, concretamente copiada después de 803 … Proviene de la zona del valle del Loira, quizá de Tours … posiblement nos encontremos ante una copia preparade para la cancillería imperial o encargada por algún personaje relevante”), here p. 137; GANZ 2015, p. 273; FAULKNER 2016, p. 108 (“produced at some stage shortly after 804”), 145, 198 (“IXinc.”; mentioned among “legal manuscripts associated with Tours”) and 232 (“Tours … from 804 or so”); KLEINE 2016, p. 128 with n. 35; Les temps mérovingiens 2016; UBL 2017, p. 177 with n. 66, p. 227 with n. 36, p. 228 sq. with n. 40 sq. (“eine Produktion im Umfeld des Abtes Fridugis von Tours, und zwar im von Tours abhängigen Kloster Cormery ... Adressat[...] ... Benedikt von Aniane”) and p. 229 sq.; GLATTHAAR. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.

234va-234vb, Sine auctore - Capitulare de latronibus (a. 804/814)

Link to digitization: here.
Here only ¶ 1–4 med., incomplete at the end; expl.: “… bonam famam habentium reprobentur”. The manuscript was copied by Audgarius whose name is written in form of a monogramme on fol. 214ra below (“AVDGARIVS NOMEN”). The manuscript is a unique compilation of legal texts accomplished by a ‘foreign person’ according to the colophon on fol. 3rb (“hos lege tu lector . felix feliciter omnes . et tu qui legis peregrini mei in bonis memento dilectissimae frater”; not mentioned by Colophons de manuscrits 1979, p. 39 sq.; Colophons de manuscrits 1982, p. 344). The Capitulare is added by a contemporary hand in a slightly darker ink. The manuscript was used by the lawyer Julien Brodeau (1585–1653) for the collation of the Lex Salica no later than May 25, 1612. This is perhaps the Aniane manuscript Étienne Baluze mentions for having used it for some texts in his Capitularia-edition of 1677. The manuscript came via Étienne de Rignac, conseiller des aides in Montpellier, to Paris and was on February 6, 1682 in the library of Colbert. It is mentioned in the catalogues of Étienne de Rignac and Étienne Baluze respectively: “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica. Lex Alamanorum. Lex Ribuariorum. Decreta Clotarij, Childeberti, Karoli Magni” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. lat 9364, fol. 74v) and “Codex Theodosianus. Lex Salica, Alamannorum, Ribuariorum” (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection Baluze, Ms. 100, fol. 176v). Baluze added on fol. 1r the note “Codex iste in bibliothecam Colbertinam delatus est e Gallia Narbonensi anno MDCLXXXII. Stephanus Baluzius”. Did he try to conceal the manuscript’s origin from Aniane with the generalizing geographical term “Gallia Narbonensis”?: BALUZE 1677, 1, Praefatio no LXXX; Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum 1744a, p. 589 col. a no 11 (“Decreta quæ in Lege Salica mittenda sunt, addita à Carolo Magno, anno tertio imperii sui. Is codex nono sæculo exaratus videtur”); PERTZ 1835, p. XXI and 129 (“saec. IX.”); PERTZ 1839a, p. 733–735, here p. 735 (“aus den ersten Jahren des 9. Jahrhunderts”; the text is not mentioned); PARDESSUS 1843, p. X–XIII no III, here p. XII (with the wrong identification “le second capitulaire de 803; ce sont des additions de Charlemagne à la loi Salique. Mais ce capitulaire n’est pas terminé, le manuscrit étant incomplet à la fin”); WAITZ 1846, p. 3 sq. with n. 2 (“9ten Jahrh. … auf westfränkischem Boden und zwar im Süden des Landes entstanden zu sein schein[t] … andere Gesetze aus karolingischer Zeit”); HAENEL 1849, p. XLIV with n. 38 sq. and 42 (“Scriptus est codex in Gallia saeculo IX”); PERTZ 1863, p. 2 (“primis saeculi IX annis in Gallia Narbonensi scriptus”); BORETIUS 1883, p. 180 no 82 (“saeculi noni initio”); CLEMEN 1889–1890, p. 258 with n. 2 (“Anfang des 9. Jahrhunderts”); BORETIUS/KRAUSE 1897, p. XXII (“saec. IX. in.”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905a, p. LXXI sq. (p. LXXI: “saec. IX”), here p. LXXII (“item capitularia quaedam”); MOMMSEN/MEYER 1905b, p. XXXVII (“saec. IX”); LINDSAY 1915, p. 472 (the text is not mentioned); LINDSAY 1923a, p. 45 (“803–814”); TAFEL 1925, p. 54 (qualified as Lyons manuscript; the text is not mentioned); KRUSCH 1927, p. 180–188 (p. 180: “9. Jahrh.”), here p. 182 and p. 188 with n. 2, and pl. VIII (fol. 197v); RAND 1927, p. 59 no 10; SCHRAMM 1928, p. 53 n. 2; RAND 1929, 1, p. 116 sq. no 45; RAND 1929, 2, pl. LVII (fol. 2v) and LVIII.1 (fol. 6r); RAND 1931, p. 591 with n. 10 and p. 592 with n. 1; LESNE 1938, p. 157 with n. 2, p. 162 with n. 2 and p. 517 with n. 18 (here qualified as possession of the Church of Lyons); RAND 1939, p. 425 n. 1 (“écriture de la fin du huitième ou du commencement du neuvième siècle, mais pas celle de Tours”); MICHELI 1939, p. 95 fig. 135 (fol. 6r, detail); CHARLIER 1945, p. 83 (qualified as used by Florus of Lyons); STEIN 1947, p. 400 (“between 800 and 813 … subsequently added”); BUCHNER 1952, p. 71; BEYERLE/BUCHNER 1954, p. 33 sq. (“Wohl 1. Viertel des 9. Jahrhunderts”); Les manuscrits à peintures 1954, p. 43 no 107 (“Narbonnaise (?), première moitié du IXe siècle”); WALLACH 1958, p. 255 and 258 sq. (“s. IX … possible Turonian provenance … written by another, but contemporary scribe … probably written between 803 and 804 … between the years from 804 to 814”); ECKHARDT 1962, p. XIII sq. (“nach Karls Kaiserkrönung im Jahre 800 geschrieben ... noch zu seinen Lebzeiten, also vor 28. 1. 814, und zwar in der Nähe von Tours (nicht in Lyon)”); HOMBURGER 1962, p. 46 n. 1; SAMARAN/MARICHAL 1962, 1, p. 535; COURCELLE 1964, p. 382 and pl. 66 (fol. 1v/2r); BISCHOFF 1965b, p. 240 with n. 50; PORCHER 1965, p. 63 with n. 29 and pl. XXVII (fol. 1v/2r); RAMBAUD-BUHOT 1965, p. 337; LEHMANN/ECKHARDT 1966, p. 13 (“saeculi IX. ineuntis”); ECKHARDT 1967, p. 2 sq.; BISCHOFF 1968, p. 311 (“Umkreis von Tours”); BEUTLER 1977, p. 45 with n. 23; MÜTHERICH 1977, p. 270 sq. with n. 30 and p. 274 n. 30; MCKITTERICK 1980b, p. 16 sq. and 19–21 (“written in the ninth century ... which presumably belonged to a magnate or court official, probably in the south or south-east of the kingdom … early-ninth century”); La Neustrie 1985, p. 65 sq. no 7 with fig. (fol. 2v) [MARIE-THÉRÈSE GOUSSET] and p. 82 (fig. 1v); BÜHLER 1986, p. 350–354; HOFFMANN 1986, 1, p. 527 no 5a (“Tours? 9. Jahrhundert”); MORDEK 1986b, p. 37; MCKITTERICK 1989, p. 36 with n. 46, p. 45 with n. 67 (“written between 800 and 814 … a book from the Tours region, possibly belonging to a magnate or court official”), p. 48 table A (“s. IXin (800–14) … Tours region … law book (comital collection)”) and p. 59 with n. 82; KESSLER 1992, p. 654 and fig. 4 (fol. 1v/2r); The art of medieval Spain 1993, p. 160 sq. with n. 5 [JOHN WESLEY WILLIAMS]; MÜTHERICH 1994, p. 83 fig. 5 sq. (fol. 1v/2r and 197v), p. 84 and 86; MORDEK 1995a, p. 211 (“aus (der Nähe von) Tours”) and p. 456–463 (p. 456: “9. Jh., Anfang (nach 804), wohl Tours”), here p. 457 and 461 (“von anderer, etwa gleichzeitiger Hand”); MORDEK 1996a, p. 64 with n. 114; MORDEK 1996b, p. 493; DUTTON/KESSLER 1997, p. 72; FAVIER 1999, p. 350 sq. and fig. 19 (fol. 1v/2r); MORDEK 2000a, p. 37; Trésors carolingiens 2007, p. 164 sq. no 40 [CHARLOTTE DENOËL]; ZANICHELLI 2012, p. 15; COMA Y FORT 2014, p. 135–137 no XI (p. 135: “siglo IX, concretamente copiada después de 803 … Proviene de la zona del valle del Loira, quizá de Tours … posiblement nos encontremos ante una copia preparade para la cancillería imperial o encargada por algún personaje relevante”), here p. 137; BISCHOFF 2014, p. 94 sq. no 4304 (“Umkreis von Tours … Zeit Karls des Großen”); GANZ 2015, p. 273; FAULKNER 2016, p. 108 (“produced at some stage shortly after 804”), 145, 198 (“IXinc.”; mentioned among “legal manuscripts associated with Tours”) and 232 (“Tours … from 804 or so”); KLEINE 2016, p. 128 with n. 35; Les temps mérovingiens 2016; UBL 2017, p. 177 with n. 66, p. 227 with n. 36, p. 228 sq. with n. 40 sq. (“eine Produktion im Umfeld des Abtes Fridugis von Tours, und zwar im von Tours abhängigen Kloster Cormery ... Adressat[...] ... Benedikt von Aniane”) and p. 229 sq.; ESDERS e. a. 2024; GLATTHAAR. Digitization: http://gallica.bnf.fr.