Florilegium in Montecassino MS 372

Title	Florilegium in Montecassino MS 372
Key	FM
Century	saec. XI
Place of origin	Montecassino (?)
European region of origin	Central Italy
Author	Christof Rolker
No. of manuscripts	one

The florilegium in Montecassino, Archivio dell’Abbazia, 372, pp. 149-160 (FM) was compiled in the early eleventh century at San Nicola della Cicogna, a priory of Montecassino, or at Montecassino; it is only known from this manuscript. It draws on the Collectio Hibernensis and the Vatican Collection in Nine Books, and the False Decretals; it has parallels to the Collection in Five Books which according to Reynolds go back to a shared source.

The short dossier contains is clearly monastic in content. It begins with a cleverly selected series of patristic excerpts which address the question of "holy simplicity"; read together, they heavily imply that even Saint Jerome approved of monks studying canon law. It was edited by Reynolds; his edition was the basis for the addition of the florilegium to the database in 2019.

Literature

Roger E. Reynolds, Further evidence for the influence of the Hibernensis in southern Italy: an early eleventh-century canonistic florilegium at Montecassino (Cod. 372), in: Peritia 19 (2005); Rolker, Canon Law pp. 119-121.