Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1352

Library	Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Shelfmark	lat. 1352
Century	s. XI2
General region of origin	Italy
Collection	Quadripartitus
Collection 2	[[Burchard of Worms, Liber decretorum (excerpts of)]]
Main author	Bruno Schalekamp

Vaticano, Citta del, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, lat. 1352 is an eleventh-century manuscript (second half) of 97 folios in 1 col. (fols. 1r-91r and 92r-97v) and 2 cols (fols. 91r-v) (275 x 180 mm). Its codicological composition reads as follows: III⁶ + 6 x IV⁵³ + (I + 1)⁵⁶ + (IV +1)⁶⁵ + 3 x IV⁸⁹ + (III + 1)⁹⁷; quire signatures in Roman numerals start at I⁶ until XI⁸¹, modern foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. It was written in Italy, but the exact location of its composition is unknown as yet and was written by various hands from saec. XI-XII in late Caroline minuscule. It has been in possession of the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana since 1594.

Contents

Fol. 5v of the manuscript, which includes the first two canons of the second book of the Quadripartitus

Manuscript Vat. lat. 1352 is a medium-sized eleventh-century codex and contains mostly canonical material (notably and most prominently the Quadripartitus). Some excerpts of Burchard of Worm's Liber decretum were included in the original composition, from about half of his books. While this makes up the bulk of the manuscript, a few (lesser or better trained) hands have added songs and prayers at the very end, as well as a verse from pope Gregory the Great's famous Moralia in Iob. The work also includes an added folio with a diagram of the Arbor iuris, better known as a table of consanguinity. These mix of contents make Vat. lat. 1352 an interesting and insightful read, as some of the biggest works in canon law and theological commentary were associated with a minor canonical collection from close to two hundred years before. This version of the Quadripartitus, furthermore, is one of three which includes all books of the collection. It also contains a small amount of beautiful capitals, two of which can be seen on fol. 5v visible on the side.

folios	texts
	Front cover
1r-84r	Collectio canonum Quadripartita (Quadripartitus), books 1-4
1r-4v	Book 1, including dedicatory letter, preface, and list of titles
4v-16r	Book 2, including preface and list of titles. Fol. 6ra-vb is a restored page
16r-52r	Book 3, including preface and list of titles
52r-84r	Book 4, including preface, list of titles, and epilogue. Fol. 56r-v includes two mall excerpts of books 17 and 19 of Burchard’s Decretum. Fol. 62r includes an Arbor iuris-diagram. The folio itself is an added folio
84v-96v	Excerpts of books 1-3, 5-6, 9-10, 12, 16-17, and 19 of Burchard’s Decretum
96v-97r	Cantus, titled Dum medium silentium
97r	Gregory the Great: Moralia in Iob, chapter 22 verse 5. Added by an untrained and later hand. Also includes an unknown short prayer at the bottom of the fol.: Respice domine famulum..., which was also added by a later hand
	Multiple flyfleafs and back cover

Literature

Brommer, ‘Die bischöfliche Gesetzgebung’ (1974), p. 114; Florio, Inventarium Vol. 3 (1613), p. 77-78; Kerff, Quadripartitus (1982), p. 30-32; Kéry, Canonical collections (1999), p. 168; Ladner, Images and Ideas Vol. 1 (1983), p. 267, n. 102; Ladner, ‘Understanding of Symbolism’ (1979), p. 244-245, nos. 102 and 109; Maassen, Geschichte (1870), p. 852; Meens, ‘Penitentials and the practice of penance’ (2006), p. 15, n. 40; Mordek, Kirchenrecht (1975), p. 172; Munier, Les sources patristiques (1957), p. 15; Schmitz, Bussbücher Vol. 1 (1883), p. 718; Vol. 2 (1898), p. 385, 391, 399, and 472; Selborne, Ancient Facts (1888), p. 230, 236, and 327-331.

See also Michael Elliot's extensive work and draft editions of the Quadripartitus on his own website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/.

Categories

• Manuscript
• digitized
• saec XI
• from Italy