Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Voss. lat. qu. 69

Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Voss. lat. qu. 69 is the eponymous manuscript of the so-called Leiden glossary which in various versions are found in 27 manuscripts and which according to Lapidge may have been compiled at Canterbury in the time of Theodore. As Elliot pointed out, this would make them extremely valuable sources to understand Anglo-Saxon canon law. Lapidge argued that the glosses use the Collectio Sanblasiana (pointing inter alia to the possible English home of the Cologne copy. Brett argued against this, and instead favoured a version of the Dionysiana, specifically an enlarged version of the Dionysiana II; he also conceded that it was difficult to exclude (some version of) the Dionysio-Hadriana. Elliot pointed out that the manuscript tradition of the Leiden glosses is complicated, and that the compilers may have used several canonical collections to produce the glossae. Specifically, he suggested that "there were several Italian collections―among them almost certainly a copy of an enlarged Coll.Dion.II, and very probably a copy of Coll.Sanb.―in Canterbury during Theodore's day".

Literature

Lapidge, School of Theodore and Hadrian (1986); Brett, Theodore; Mettke, Vocabularius Sancti Galli, in: ²VL (1999), col. 479-482; Elliot, Sanblasiana (analysis and transcription); Lapidge, Anglo-Latin Literature (2006)

Categories

• Manuscript
• not in Clavis
• not in Kéry
• not digitzed
• 9th c.