Città del Vaticano, BAV, Pal. lat. 574

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
Library Città del Vaticano, BAV
Shelfmark Pal. lat. 574
Olim shelfmark St. Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, 25.2.20
Century saec. VIII-IX
Provenance Lorsch
European region of origin Southern Germany
Specific region of origin Upper Rhine region
Collection Collectio Laureshamensis
Digital Images digi.vatlib.it
Description at bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital
Description at 2 digi.ub.uni-heidelberg
Description at 4 individual.utoronto.ca
CLA CLA I 96
Bischoff number 6543 referring to 6534 on p. 415, 414
Author User:Lotte Kéry


Pal. lat. 574 contains one of two known copies of the Collectio Laureshamensis (fol. 2v-147v); Maassen knew the collection from this manuscript only and named it after its medieval home. It was written around 800 in the Upper Rhine region or Alemannia ((Bischoff), or perhaps North-Eastern France or in the Cologne area (Loew). According to Bischoff, Pal. lat. 574 is similar to Pal. lat. 493, and one part of the latter (containing the Decretum Gelasianum) may indeed have been part of Pal. lat. 574. Parts of Pal. lat. 574 (fol. 152-165) in 1762/63 or 1770 were taken to Sankt Blasien and from there to Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, where they formed part of the manuscript "25.2.20" until 1923, when they were returned to the BAV (Kautz).

Literature

Maassen, Geschichte pp. 585-591; Morkdek, Bibliotheca pp. 771-773; Kéry, Collections p. 49; Elliot at http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/sigla.html#mss