Novara, Archivio Storico Diocesano, XXX

Library	Novara, Archivio Storico Diocesano
Shelfmark	XXX
Olim shelfmark	66
Century	saec. IXex
Provenance	Novara chapter library
Script	Caroline Minuscule
European region of origin	Northern Italy
Collection	Collectio Dionysiana III
Collection 2	Collectio Novariensis
Collection 3	Collectio Novariensis concilii Chalcedonensis
Collection 4	Collectio Novariensis de re Eutychis
Collection 5	Collectio Vaticana in Vat. lat. 1342
Collection 6	Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana
Collection 7	Cresconius, Concordia canonum
Digital Images	not online as of September 2025
Description at	mirabileweb.it
Description at 2	capitularia.uni-koeln.de
Bischoff number	3627 on p. 321
Author	Christof Rolker

Novara, Archivio Storico Diocesano, XXX (olim Novara, Biblioteca Capitolare, XXX; olim Biblioteca Capitolare, 66) is a manuscript of the ninth or tenth century which contains a large number of canon law works. Mordek (as found here) describes it as containing the following texts:

• a fragment of the Collectio Vaticana in Vat. lat. 1342
• fol. 28r-34r the Collectio Novariensis concilii Chalcedonensis also found in Vat. lat. 1322 (Kéry)
• the only copy of the Collectio Novariensis de re Eutychis
• parts of Cresconius, Concordia canonum
• the prefaces to Collectio Dionysiana II and Collectio Dionysiana III (the only evidence that this version ever existed, or at least was in the making), followed by the metrical preface to the council of Nicaea (325) and the Nicene creed
• fol. 118r-232v the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana, and
• fol. 233r-265v the Collectio Novariensis also found in Novara, Archivio Storico Diocesano, LXXXIV etc.
• fol. 265v-267v Constitutum Pseudo-Silvestri
• from fol. 268 on, ninth-century materials:
  • fol. 268ra-rb Quierzy (a. 853)
  • fol. 268rb-272va Valence (a. 855)
  • fol. 272va-273vb Saint-Laurent-lès-Macon (a. 855)
  • fol. 273vb-274ra a version of JE 2697
  • fol. 274ra an unknown council (cf. Maassen, Eine burgundische Synode)
  • fol. 274ra-vb capitulary canons
  • fol. 275r-277v excerpts of Gregory I, Regula pastoralis,
  • fol. 277v-280r A Carolingian florilegium De baptismi officio
  • fol. 280r-v Etymologiae 7.12.1-14
  • fol. 281r-282r Council of Milan (a. 863)

There is further material in the manuscript, notably a dossier containing texts related to the theopaschitism and the papal double election of 530.

The first 69 folios of Novara, Archivio Storico Diocesano, XV are a copy of Novara XXX, fol. 118ff.

Literature

Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium pp. 393-395; Kéry, Collections pp. 10, 16, 25, 32, 39.