Firenze, BML, Ashburnham 53

Library	Firenze, BML
Shelfmark	Ashburnham 53
Century	saec. XII
European region of origin	unknown
Collection	Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (A' version)
Collection 2	Collectio Tripartita
Description at	mirabileweb.it
Main author	Martin Brett
Main author	Christof Rolker

Firenze, BML, Ashburnham 53 (no. 9 in the 1887 Florence catalogue) on fol. 1-14vb contains a fragment of the first part of the Collectio Tripartita (elsewhere described as excerpts from Pseudo-Isidore: Kéry, Collections p. 106), followed by a copy of Anselm (A').

The manuscript was written in Italy; at Terni saec. XV, later owned by Count Boutourlain; bought by the notorious Libri, who sold it to Lord Ashburnham; later bought by the Italian state (Blumenthal, Early Councils pp. 65-66).

Brett describes the Tripartita fragment as follows:

The Preface, and [Tripartita A] 1. 1 - 20. 1, breaking off in mid-sentence on the first line of the verso of the leaf, leaving the rest of the column blank. On fol. 15ra the capitulatio for Anselm of Lucca Bk I begins in the same hand. The rubrics and capitulations for 1. 15 onwards were never inserted.

The copy of Anselm contains a pro-monastic forgery (JE †1996) after Collectio 5.64.

Not to be confused with the manuscript described as "Ashburnham 53" by ARCA. This is manuscript no. 53 in the Florence catalogue (I codici ashburnhamiani pp. 79-83).

Links

For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition, see Brett/Nowak, Tripartita

Literature

Catalogue of the manuscripts at Ashburnham Palace s.p. no. 53; I codici ashburnhamiani della R. Biblioteca mediceo-laurenziana di Firenze pp. 12-13 no. 9; Blumenthal, Early Councils pp. 65-66; Gilchrist, Monastic forgeries p. 269; Kéry, Collections pp. 106, 219