• Brittany (?)
• Normandy (?)
• Fécamp (?)

Fécamp

• Law
• Canon Law
• Penitentials

A very large and complex collection of secular laws, canon laws and penitential texts, including:

• Liber ex lege Moysi (1–13)
• Various notes and excerpts, also concerning world chronology (13-17)
• Virtutes quas Dominus dominica die fecit, on the days of Creation, also known as Epistil Ísu (17-18)
• An earlier scribe's subscription, copied also in Orléans, Médiathèque, 221 and Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021 (18)
• Commentary on Matthew 11:29 (18)
• Canones Hibernenses, recension A (19-160; cf. also 177, 279-280, 302, 305-307, 312)
• Excerpta de libris Romanorum et Francorum, also known as Canones Wallici (160-164)
• Canones Adomnani (164, 173-175, 283)
• Iudicia Theodori, recension D (also known as Capitula Dacheriana) (164-173)
• Penitential of Vinnian, extracts (176-177)
• Canon laws, Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (183-264)
• Excerpts from the Vetus Gallica and from Gregory the Great, Epistolae (264-273)
• Extracts from the Bible and the Fathers (273-280)
• Praefatio Gildae, Synodus Aquilonalis Brittanniae, Synodus Luci Victoriae, Excerpta de libro Dauidis (280-283)
• Chapters concerning prayer and penance (283-286)
• Paenitentiale Bigotianum (286-299)
• Theodulf of Orléans, Capitula (300-302)
• Proverbia Grecorum, extracts (303–4)
• Liber Pontificalis (308-310)
• Chapters on ecclesiastical offices (310-312)
• Capitulare legibus additum of AD 803, Capitulare missorum of AD 803, excerpts from the _Lex Salica (312-338)
• Pseudo-Felix of Messina, Epistola to Pope Gregory (338-343)
• Theodulf of Orléans, episcopal statutes (343-350)
• Paenitentiale Egberti (351-356)
• De penitentia Hieronimi presbiteri (355-356)
• Scribal colophon (356).

• Certainly written by a Breton scribe
• Possibly written in Brittany
• Some contents probably derive from a Breton exemplar / archetype

This is the famous Codex Bigotianus containing numerous Hiberno-Latin penitential tracts as well as recension A of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis. The contents of this MS—which was written by a Breton scribe named discipulus Maeloc (as revealed by the faded colophon on p. 356, col. b; cf. PMSB 309), and which preserves a few Old Breton glosses—must derive from a collection very similar to that of Cambrai, BM, 625, one of the numerous Breton MSS to preserve full or partial copies of the Hibernensis. Bischoff (Kat. III, 89), Mordek (1995: 433), Dumville (2004: 167) and several other scholars indicate Brittany as the area of origin of this MS; in fact, it seems difficult to establish with certainty whether the Bigotianus was written in Brittany or rather by a Breton scribe working in a scriptorium outside of Brittany (such as Fécamp, for example). In any case, in view of the close textual links with MSS such as the above-mentioned Cambrai 625, as well as Orléans, Médiathèque, 221 and Paris, BnF, Lat. 12021 (Flechner 2019: I, 128), it is likely that the scribe—whoever he was and wherever he may have been working—copied at least some of this manuscript's contents from an older Breton exemplar.

Bauer 2008: 81; Bieler 1963: 12–13, 21–2; Bischoff 1974: 145 (§39); BNCG IV, 304–17; BnF Archives et Manuscrits; Bradshaw 1889: 412, 414–15, 473–4, 487; CLH 740 (§578), 751 (§580), 755 (§582), 762 (§588), 789 (§620), 791 (§621); Deuffic 2008: 79, 128 (n. 220), 136 (n. 268, '1ère moitié du Xe s.'); DGVB 6; Dumville 1984b: 214; Dumville 1994: 93 (n. 26), 94 (n. 28); Dumville 2004: 167; Flechner 2008: 28–30; Flechner 2019: I, 128–32; Fleuriot 1985: 67; Innovating Knowledge; L&S §903; Lemoine 1985: 291; Lemoine 2001: 261–2; Lemoine 2005: 21; Lemoine 2008: 191; Meeder 2009: 182; Mordek 1995: 433–5; PMSB 309 (§77); Riché 2004: 21; Schrijver 2011: 9; Simpson (McKee) 1999: 287–8; Smith 1992: 170 (n. 93); Stokes 1879–80: 328, 345–6; Wright 2006: 194, 202.

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