Città del Vaticano, BAV, Pal. lat. 585
| Library | Città del Vaticano, BAV |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | Pal. lat. 585 |
| Siglum | Va2 |
| Century | saec. XI |
| Provenance | |
| Place of origin | Worms |
| European region of origin | Western Germany |
| Biblissima QID | Q88887 |
| Collection | Burchard of Worms, Liber decretorum |
| Digital Images | digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de |
| Digital Images 2 | digi.vatlib.it |
| Digital Images 3 | digi.vatlib.it |
| Description at | digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de |
| Description at Biblissima | portail.biblissima.fr |
| Author | Christof Rolker |
Città del Vaticano, BAV, Pal. lat. 585 (Hoffmann/Pokorny's V; siglum Va2 in the new edition) together with Città del Vaticano, BAV, Pal. lat. 586 is a two-volume copy of Burchard's Liber decretorum written at Worms in the first quarter of the eleventh century.
The double codex belongs to the manuscripts produced at Worms under the supervision of Burchard himself and shows numerous signs of last-minute changes to the arrangement of the materials. An ordo synodalis (Schneider's no. 17) and the decrees of Seligenstadt 1023 are added in Pal. lat. 586 after book twenty of Burchard.
The arrangement of the canons in the Palatini is different from that of most copies but similar to that of the editio princeps which therefore is thought to have been based on a manuscript very similar to Pal. lat. 585/586. This peculiar arrangement is known as ‘Order of Worms, type A’ as opposed to ‘Order of Worms, type B’ found in almost equally early copies including Frankfurt, UB, Barth. 50, and almost all later manuscript. Indeed, there are only two other extant manuscripts of ‘type A’: Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f. 86 and M.p.th.f. 167.
Note that the Palatini were used to train a Transkribus model: https://www.transkribus.org/model/bdd-wormser-scriptorium-expanded-0.1.
Literature
Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 29-58; Schneider, MGH Ordines p. 471; Jasper, MGH Conc. 6/1 p. 11; Kéry, Collections p. 134
