Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1357

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
Library Città del Vaticano, BAV
Shelfmark Vat. lat. 1357
Siglum V
Century saec. XII
Provenance
European region of origin Northern France
Collection Ivo of Chartres, Decretum
Digital Images digi.vatlib.it
Description at The Ivo of Chartres project
Author Martin Brett


Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1357 is a copy of Ivo's Decretum (siglum V in Brett's edition).

saec. XII, double columns, with alternating red and blue initials. French.

Vat. lat. 1357 is very close to Paris, BnF, lat. 14315 (= P; see Landau 1984, 9, Kuttner/Elze 1986, 122-24, listing the few added texts at the end) in what it includes and omits. It cannot be a copy of P, since it has a long addition to Decretum 11.102 otherwise found only in M, with which it sometimes agrees against P elsewhere, it lacks many of P’s idiosyncracies, and contains some substantial variants in the main text which were only added in the margins of P later. The text has been extensively corrected – particularly by the insertion of missing words, or even whole canons – though the notes below record only the most substantial of these. Most may be no more than corrections from the exemplar, though occasionally they suggest a return to another form of the source. However, at the end of the text, but in the main hand, are seven canons omitted in the main text (and P) – Decretum 16.19-21, 39-40; 17.32, 45. These were presumably drawn from a second exemplar which resembled CRSM rather than P or Paris, BnF, lat. 3874 (= B). The distinction between the main hand and later annotators in the text below is entirely provisional. In book 1, and occasionally in book 16, a smaller hand has added a number of rubrics which sometimes resemble, but do not agree with, those found in M. The rubricator who inserted the initial letters for each canon was extremely accident-prone, sometimes absurdly so.

For the sigla of Brett's edition, see the list in the article on Ivo's Decretum.

Links

For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition, see Brett, Decretum.

Literature

Kéry, Collections p. 251