Florilegium in Yale, Beinecke 442

Title	Florilegium in Beinecke 442
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Century	?
Main author	Christof Rolker

A number of copies of the long version of the False Decretals contains a florilegium of excerpts from the register of Gregory the Great. The florilegium contains 46 (Kerner et al., ) or 47 (Fowler-Magerl) fragments, all but the first beginning with et alibi. The oldest manuscript according to Kerner et al is New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 442, where it is found on fol. 232r-234v (between the Gregory letters and the Lateran Synod of 649).

Shailor in the online Beinecke catalogue provides beginning and end as follows:

Quae secuntur ex epistolis predicti gregorii papae per diuersa loca sunt. excerpta. ac primum ex epistola eiusdem secundino seruo dei recluso directa. In extremum epistolae requisisti quid eis respondendum sit qui dilectionem tuam...[second rubric:] Sequentia epistolarum uerba de diuersis locis sunt excerpta. prolixitatem uero uitantes capita epistolarum non prenotauimus. Ratio nulla permittit ut propriis cuiusquam usibus applicetur...et ab omni aduersitate seruet ille [followed by erasure] sosatque custodiat.

Kerner et al., Textidentifikation, 35-37 showed that two erroneous inscriptions in Burchard's Liber decretorum can be explained by the use of this florilegium.

Fowler-Magerl pointed out that the florilegium drew on the C+P transmission of the letters of Gregory (on which see Collectio Pauli), and (like C+P itself) its "circulation was limited for the most part to northern France and Lorraine and neighboring regions" (239)

Literature

Kerner et al., Textidentifikation pp. 238-240; Fowler-Magerl, Use of Gregory pp. 35-39