Collectio Sanblasiana

Title	Collectio Sanblasiana
Key	?
Alternative title	Collectio Italica
Century	saec. VI
Main author	Christof Rolker

Title

The collection is variously known as Sammlung der Handschrift von Sanct Blasien (Maassen), Collectio canonum Sancti Blasii (BnF), or (most frequently) Sanblasiana (Kéry, Elliot, Mirabile web).

Wirbelauer in 1993 argued that the collection should re-named Collectio Italica but this seems not to have been followed by more recent scholarship. Elliot in 2013 argued in favour of the older, "admittedly arbitrary", title.

Manuscripts

The following extant manuscripts are known:

• olim Cheltenham, Phillipps Collection, 17849 [now part of a private collection, see below]
• Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, 213
• Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana, 490
• Malibu, s.n. (olim "ehemalige Sammlung Ludwig XIV. 1") according to Wirbelauer
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1455
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 3836
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 4279
• Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, 7/1 (= Maassen's "Cod. Sanblasianus 6 [sic]", apparently)

Maassen, Geschichte, 504 dates "Cod. Sanblasianus 6 [sic]" to the sixth century. Note that Kéry dates none of her mss that early; see Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, 7/1 for detail. Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, p. 122, also counts Clm 5508 as a copy of the Italica, but only with important qualifications: both BnF lat. 1455 and Clm 5508 "sollten in den betreffenden Teilen ... als (erweiterte) Italica-Überlieferungen [bezeichnet werden]" (p. 122 n. 48).

Kéry, Collections p. 30 only mentions Clm 5508 as a copy of the Collectio Frisingensis I (p. 2) and the Collectio Diessensis (p. 4). She does not mention the Malibu manuscript. Instead, she additionally refers to a "large fragment" of the Italica in a private collection: "Cheltenham, Phillipps Collection, 17849, saec. VIIIex Italy; cf. CLA 2², no. 143, pp. 8, 49, 57. After World War II it was acquired by Dr. M. Bodmer (Cologny near Geneva)." According to Elliot, Canon Law p. 115 this copy (his "D3") was sold in 2008 and now, or at least in 2013, was owned by an unknown collector: "As of 2008 the manuscript was up for sale through Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books (item no. 1 in their catalogue from that year). D3 has since been sold and is now housed in a private European collection, the location of which is currently unknown"

Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, p. 122 distinguishes five manuscripts (Cologne, BnF lat. 3836, Malibu, Sankt Paul, Lucca) as untouched by Carolingian influence from the other three manuscripts (Clm 5508, BnF lat. 1455 and 4279) which are influenced by Carolingian reworking but still preserve much ancient material ("haben viel Vorkarolingisches bewahrt").

Date

The collection is commonly dated to the sixth century.

It draws on the Collectio prisca and the Dionysiana; the most recent material are the Symmachean materials of 498x514. This suggests a compilation not before the early sixth century.

According to Maassen, the Sankt Paul manuscript (his "Cod. Sanblasianus 6") dates from the sixth century (Geschichte, p. 504), but more recent scholarship (Kéry, Elliot) dates all manuscripts including the Sankt Paul manuscript to the eighth century or later.

Wirbelauer supported an early date on basis of the content; the collection, he argued, was compiled by a supporter of Symmachus ("Werk eines gemäßigten Symmachus-Anhängers", p. 127)

Elliott follows Wirbelauer for an orgin still in the sixth century but stresses that no clear terminus ante quem can be established. He points to the Collectio Colbertina and the Collectio Diessensis I sa drawing on the Sanblasiana, but stresses that both are difficult to date with any precision: "the Diessensis prima seems to have originated in the seventh century, while the Colbertina may be as early as the middle of the sixth or as late as the eighth century" (p. 234).

Content and Structure

The collection is chronologically arranged. Wirbelauer (p. 123) divides the material into five sections (A-E):

1. Conciliar canons (Nicaea to Antiochia)
2. Symmachian Documenta (his "SD I")
3. Papal letters "in chronologischer Abfolge von Siricius bis Leo"
4. Creeds
5. Appendices: Serdica to Julius and two letters of Gelasius I (JK 636 and 675)

Literature

Note that the Italica is not mentioned in the 2005 Clavis handbook (nor is it in the 2005 database).

Elliot, Canon Law, Chapter 5.3 (pp. 228ff.)

Kéry, Collections p. 29-31.

Maassen, Geschichte p. 500-512.

Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, 122-125.

Categories

• saec. VI
• Collection
• Italian
• this article is a stub
• not in Clavis