Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 4977
Two manuscripts were bound together to make the present Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 4977. The first contains a version of 74T (Clavis key XA); it is incomplete (damaged) at the end. The second part of the manuscript (which is incomplete at the beginning) contains a canonical collection (Clavis key XB). Folios are missing in the manuscript between the present folios 49 and 50 and between folios 58 and 59.
The manuscript has been cited as an example of how canons of the 74T were transmitted together with Burchard and the Collectio V librorum. It has been pointed out that folio 24 is the last folio of what is now the third quire. Closer observation reveals, however, that the first (fol. 17) and last folios (fol. 24) of the third quire are merely pasted together by means of a strip of parchment. The outside of the first folio of the quire belongs to a different side of parchment than the outside of the last folio. It is a case of two separate fragmentary manuscripts being bound together in a way that the resulting manuscript appeared complete. [205]
Links
- For a description, see https://capitularia.uni-koeln.de/en/mss/vatikan-bav-vat-lat-4977/
- Online at https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4977
Literature
For the first six folios of the present manuscript see Kuttner, Some Roman Manuscripts, pp. 7–9. He recognized the use of Gratian. – Kéry, Collections p. 280.
