Collectio Arelatensis

Title	Collectio Arelatensis
Key	no key yet
Alternative title	Sammlung der Kirche von Arles (Maassen)
Alternative title	Epistolae Arelatenses (Gundlach)
Alternative title	Liber auctoritatum ecclesiae Arelatensis (BnF, lat. 5537)
Alternative title	Liber privilegium ecclesiae Arelatensis (Jasper)
Wikidata Item no.	Q113556984
Size	?
Terminus post quem	557
Terminus ante quem	560
Century	saec. VI
Place of origin	Arles
European region of origin	Southern France
Author	Christof Rolker
No. of manuscripts	some (2–9)

The Collectio Arelatensis is a canonical collection containing decretals from various popes and other material relating to the Gallic church and Arles in particular. It was created shortly after 557 and is preserved in three manuscripts from the ninth and tenth centuries. The place of origin is usually assumed to be Arles, but a Roman origin has also been suggested.

The Arelatensis is one of the two most important sources for the transmission of the letters of Pelagius I (the other being the Collectio Britannica). Created during the pope's lifetime, it contains eleven of his letters in chronological order, possibly an indication of the use of the register. The Arelatensis also contains letters from Popes Symmachus and Vigilius.

Manuscripts

Maassen and Gundlach p. 1 list the following manuscripts (folio numbers according to Gundlach):

1. Paris, BnF, lat. 2777, fol. 20r-42v (saec. IX); see Jasper, p. 86.
2. Paris, BnF, lat. 3849, fol. 1-53 (saec. IX)
3. Paris, BnF, lat. 5537, fol. I-III and 1-92 (saec. XI-XII)
4. Paris, BnF, lat. 3880, fol. 70r-91v; see Kéry, Collections p. 89

Maassen also mentions "Cod. Carpentor. Peirescii 74" (apparently Carpentras, BM, 74, once owned by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc) as a modern copy of an old Arles manuscript.

For Arelatensis manuscripts described in this Wiki, see Category:Manuscript of Collectio Arelatensis (number of entries: 2).

Edition

Ed. Wilhelm Gundlach in MGH Epp. 3, pp. 1–83 (online).

Literature

Maassen, Geschichte, pp. 768–771. - Jasper, Beginning pp. 32 and 86-87. (Not in Kéry, Collections.)