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Paris, BN, lat. 4404

January 01, 1970

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 4404 is a medieval manuscript from the 9th century containing, among other legal texts, the Breviary of Alaric, and is notable also for containing illustrations of rulers.

Frontispiece of BN lat. 4404, from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The earliest examples of illustrations of rulers may have been illuminations in legal manuscripts, with lat. 4404 frequently cited as an instance: its frontispiece depicts Theodosius, Valentian, Marcian, and Majorian.[1] The Breviary of Alaric is the only text in the manuscript with annotations.[2]

The version of the Lex Salica was called a shortened version by Georg Heinrich Pertz, but Jean Marie Pardessus and Georg Waitz referred to it as amplification. Waitz, following Pardessus, refers to the Lex Salica in 4404 as "the only manuscript where no trace of Christianity can be found", apparently neglecting the introduction to the text which speaks of the Franks as a people of God. While those authors saw in the version in 4404 "the most ancient" version of the text, Simon Stein argues that the number of mistakes alone is sufficient to prove that this is not the case.[3]

Provenance edit

The manuscript hails from Gaul, early 9th century, most likely from Tours or thereabouts.[4] Some date and locate it more precisely—Samuel Collins dates production in 804, in the Tours scriptorium.[5] A note by Étienne Baluze (1630-1718) explains that the manuscript came from Gallia Narbonensis and became part of the library of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683). Before that, it was most likely owned by Julien Brodeau (1585-1653), a lawyer from Paris.[4]

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References edit

  1. ^ Karkov, Catherine E. (2004). The Ruler Portraits of Anglo-Saxon England. Boydell. p. 207. ISBN 9781843830597.
  2. ^ McKitterick, Rosamond (1989). The Carolingians and the Written Word. Cambridge UP. p. 45. ISBN 9780521315654. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  3. ^ Stein, Simon (1947). "Lex Salica, I". Speculum. 22 (2): 113–134. doi:10.2307/2854721. JSTOR 2854721. S2CID 162901729.
  4. ^ a b "Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Lat. 4404" (in German). University of Cologne. 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
  5. ^ Collins, Samuel W. (2012). The Carolingian Debate Over Sacred Space. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 194. ISBN 9781137295057.

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