Collectio Pithouensis

Title	Collectio Pithouensis
Key	?
Alternative title	Sammlung der Pithou'schen Handschrift
Century	saec. VI
Main author	Christof Rolker

The Collectio Pithouensis (saec. VI) is a small canon law collection extant only in Paris, BnF, lat. 1564. This copy is incomplete as the manuscripts is fragmentary; the quires after fol. 136 are lost (Maassen).

The most recent material it contains dates from the sixth century, and Dunn and others have argued the collection was compiled still in this century. Kaiser has argued that the Collectio Corbeiensis was improved from the Pithouensis.

The manuscript

See Category:Manuscript of Collectio Pithouensis (1 entry)

• Paris, BnF, lat. 1564

Literature

Kéry, Collections pp. 48-49; Maassen, Geschichte p. 604; Geoffrey Dunn, Collectio Corbeiensis, Collectio Pithouensis, and the Earliest Collections of Papal Letters, in: Collecting Early Christian Letters. From the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity, ed. Bronwen Neil and Pauline Allen (2015), 179–205 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316135655.