Berlin, SBPK, lat. fol. 197
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz lat. fol. 197 from Maria Laach contains the second recension of the Collectio Tripartita (= S in the Brett/Nowak edition). The palaeographical date is conventionally given as s.xii/xiii, but this seems too late.
It is an eccentric copy of the second version of the Tripartita. Apart from the idiosyncratic way in which A 2.44 comes after Toledo XII, rather than Toledo VII, it has a massive capitulatio to the whole work on fos 1v-18v in which the canons after B 29.284 have been added in another hand. The recto of fo.19 is blank, and fos 19v-21v have a synodal order (Schneider Ordo 17, beginning ‘Hora conuenienti quando episcopo uel eius uicario’ and ending ‘dies indulgentie uocatur’, and including a text of the Admonitio synodalis). A much later text beginning ‘Sicut in construenda domo precipuus est architectoris’ and ending ‘uniuersali ecclesie nec alteri cuicumque’ is added in a hand of s.xvi1 on fo. 22r-v; fo. 23r is blank. A list of popes in the main hand on fos 23v-4 runs up to Urban [II], but was subsequently continued to Hadrian [IV]. This is followed by the Ivonian preface (ending as Berlin, SBPK, Hamilton 345 = H does, above, though with variants), and then by the Tripartita preface proper. The usual capitulationes for each section are then inserted in the text in the conventional way. Both the first capitulatio and the text lack A1.66-7. Uniquely, it marks a clear break after A 2.49 with a distinctive explicit, and has a large decorated initial to the first cap. of A2.50. The manuscript was used by Friedberg, and in the apparatus (though not the table in the preface) he sometimes gave a double numbering of Trip. B in brackets, treating A2.50 as B. 1. The text ends at B 29.284, followed by five additions apparently peculiar to it. It has A 1.14.14, 1.38.26a and the added canons after B 9.2, and has the rearranged versions of A 2.39 and B 17. The detailed readings of S are puzzling. Usually, though not always, they align it closely with CLRX, (as with the marginal notes to A 2.2.1) against KNDM, W or BVP, but in A 2 there are a considerable number of cases where the main text has the reading of the earlier version (and particularly H) against all the other copies of the later form. There are two striking cases in A 2.50. In c 30 a passage has dropped out from all the other later mss by eyeskip, but is present in S, and in c 38 a last sentence is found in the earlier mss, but only in S among the later ones. The effect is less visible in Part B, though still present. Elsewhere in Part B the inscriptions are often truncated or absent, and a number of canons are also abbreviated. There are numerous corrections in another hand, some minor marginal additions, and frequent lexical glosses. It is probably not significant that S, like W, sometimes numbers canons in A 1 which are the only ones in the name.
Links
- HSP https://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/HSP000473CE00000000
- Brett/Nowak edition of Tripartita: http://ivo-of-chartres.github.io/tripartita.html
Literature
Kéry, Collections p. 244
