Montecassino, Archivio dell’Abbazia, 541
Library | Archivio e Biblioteca dell’Abbazia |
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Shelfmark | 541 |
Century | s. XIin |
General region of origin | Southern Italy |
Collection | Quadripartitus |
Collection 2 | Cresconius |
Collection 3 | Collectio Dacheriana |
Main author | Bruno Schalekamp |
Main author | Christof Rolker |
Monte Cassino, Biblioteca statale del Monumento nazionale di Montecassino, 541 is an early eleventh-century manuscript of 296 pages in 2 cols. (360x 270mm). Its codicological composition is unknown as of yet. Written in southern Italy, it has been in possession of the Monte Cassino Abbey since very soon after it was compiled. It was written by various hands in distinct Beneventan script in saec. XIin according to Kerff and Kéry.
Contents
The manuscript contains for the vast majority canon law material, as well as some patristic excerpts, episcopal and papal epistles, and an explanation of the Rule of Benedict. It was possibly compiled by order of abbot Theobald of Monte Cassino (1022-1035) at Monte Cassino, according to Kerff. Furthermore, according to both Kerff and Mordek, this manuscript is a direct copy of Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1347.
It is interesting to note what was added to the compilation for the reader. While most of the 'base text' stayed the same, a few pages of new contents, such as the ordo de celebrando concilio, an explanation 'on councils' (p. 5), and various excerpts of conciliar law with 'baptism' as central theme, were added and deemed relevant to its original textual structure. Some omissions can be found, too, such as an unknown text titled nonnullo stulti dogmate and two unknown canonical texts. Even more striking, is that around the time of copying Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1347, a text in Beneventan script was added to that same manuscript - an epistle of Gregory the Great to Marinianus of Ravenna titled quam sit necessarium - which cannot be found in its direct copy expounded on here.
pages | texts |
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Front cover | |
1-4 | Ordo de celebrando concilio |
4 | Ordo in susceptione presbiterorum |
5 | De conciliis |
5-8b | Various excerpts of epistles |
9a-123b | Cresconius, Concordia canonum |
123b-124a | Definitio fidei of the Council of Chalcedon (451) |
124ab | The symbol of the first Council of Nicaea (325) |
124b-126b | The symbol and Definitio fidei of the first Council of Constantinople (381) |
126b-140b | Various excerpts of various epistles and conciliar legislation, including: |
126b-130b | Epistle of pope Leo I to bishop Anastasius of Thessaloniki |
130b-134a | Epistle of Jerome to Lucian |
134a-137a | Epistle of bishop Mansuetus of Milan to emperor Constantine |
137a-139a | The symbol of the synod of Milan (680) |
139ab | Expositio sancti Augustini |
139b-140b | Expositio euangelii beati Gregorii papa omelia VII |
140b-143b | Collection of canons in the style of Fulgentius Ferrandus' Breviatio canonum |
143-147b | Glossary of synonyms on the Rule of Benedict in Latin, as well as various canons, such as the Canones apostolorum and from councils in northern Africa and the eastern Mediterranean |
147b-235b | Collectio Dacheriana, in ‘form B’ |
235b-236a | Epistle of Aeneas of Paris to Hincmar of Reims: Epistola ad Hincmarum Remensem archiepiscopum |
236b-285b | Collectio canonum Quadripartitus, book 4, including prologue, list of titles, and epilogue |
285b-296b | Excerpts of conciliar law with the central theme of baptism |
Back cover |
Literature
Bergmann, Stricker, Goldhammer, Wich-Reif, Katalog (2005), p. 920-921, n. 438; Blume, Bibliotheca librorum (1834), p. 221-222; Inguanez, Codicem Casinensium (1940), p. 199-203; Kerff, Quadripartitus (1982), p. 18-20; Kéry, Canonical collections (1999), p. 34; Lowe, The Beneventan script (1914), p. 352; Maassen, Geschichte (1870), p. 853; Mordek, Kirchenrecht (1975), p. 101, 172, and 262; Mordek, ‘Zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung’ (1967), p. 577; Schmitz, Bussbücher Vol. 1 (1883), p. 718; Zechiel-Eckes, Cresconius.
See also Michael Elliot's extensive work and draft editions of the Quadripartitus on his own website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/.