Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 4977

The second part of the composite manuscript Vat. lat. 4977 (fols. 24-89) on fols. 24-70 contains a canonical collection with no other known transmission. Its Clavis key is XB. It is incomplete at the beginning due to loss of folios that occurred before it was bound together with another manuscript containing a 74T version.

The collection begins on fol. 24r with the end of an excerpt from an unidentified papal letter. This is followed by extracts from other papal letters and conciliar canons taken from the Dionysio-Hadriana. It also contains excerpts from the Liber decretorum of Burchard and the Beneventan Collectio V librorum. The most recent text in the collection deals with sacrifice and is what Robert Somerville calls an „enigmatic fragment“: Sive per bonos sacerdotes … custodit et benedicit (canon 189). It is attributed to Gregorii pape et Urbani secundi pape. The same inscription appears in the Beneventan Collectio Casinensis which also has extracts from Burchard and the Collectio V librorum. Folios are missing in the manuscript between the present folios 49 and 50 and between folios 58 and 59. [205]

Literature

For the use of the Collectio V librorum see Reynolds, The South-Italian Canon Law Collection, pp. 278–295. – For the canon attributed to both Gregory VII and Urban II see Somerville, Urban II, p. 124 n. 203. – Kéry, Collections p. 280.