Città del Vaticano, BAV, Reg. lat. 407

Place	Città del Vaticano (Vatican City)
Library	Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Shelfmark	Reg. lat. 407
Century	s. IXmed-3/4
General region of origin	near St. Gallen (Kéry/Reynolds), Swabian region or around Lake Constance (catalogue)
ISIL no.	unknown
Collection	Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)
Collection 2	Collectio II librorum/VIII partium
Main author	Bruno Schalekamp

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 407 is a ninth-century manuscript (third quarter) of 101 folios in 1 col. (fols. 1r-29r and 32v-101v) and 2 cols. (fols. 29v -32r) (230 x 195 mm). Its codicological composition is unknown and no quire signatures were included. Arabic numerals in the recto side of each folio in (early?) modern hand. It was written by one hand in Caroline minuscule. The manuscript's origins has been argued to either originate from the area (around) of St. Gallen according to Kéry and Reynolds, or from the Swabian region or around Lake Constance according to its catalogue. The codex's provenance is not completely clear, but it is known - at the earliest - to have been in possession of Christina, Queen of Sweden, in 1656, based on various notes by a librarian of Antwerp on fols. 1r-2r (see fol. 2r, for example: Volumen CXVIII Non Petauianum).

Contents

The manuscript is a medium-sized codex and contains mostly canonical material. Most prominently, the Collectio II librorum/VIII partium takes up about half of the folios, followed by an unknown 'collection' (?) of various patristic excerpts (Augustine, Jerome, Isidore, Gregory the Great, and Seneca among others) and some conciliar material (including Halitgar of Cambrai and the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)). It also includes the Notitia Galliarum in between the two books of the first canonical collection. According to Mommsen the Notitia Galliarum may have been copied from the manuscript St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 397, based on the ‘germanic type’ of ligatures. This may point to its provenance from the area around St. Gallen.

Fol. 74v of the manuscript, showing at the very bottom the first sentence of De ratione matrimonii

The codex seems to have been preserved in a mediocre state. Quite a few folios have water damage or small holes in them, which must have been created after the text was written. Most of the base text is still relatively readable, fortunately, but some corners - especially in the earlier folios of the work - have practically faded away. Early modern hands have sometimes glossed the contents of the manuscript, pointing to a later interest in its included canonical material.

See the digitized version: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.407.

folios	texts
	Front cover and flyleaf
1r	Blank page with previous manuscript signature
1v-54r	Collectio II librorum/VIII partium
29v-32r	In between both canonical books: the Notitia Galliarum
54r-101v	Various patristic excerpts, including works and sermons ascribed to Augustine, Jerome, Isidore, Gregory the Great, and Seneca on various topics such as the eucharist, penance and morality. Also includes some conciliar material. Not all have been identified but a few are listed below:
60r and 70r-71v	The Eucharistic sentences, commonly attributed to Cyprian, Ambrose and Hilary (Reynolds)
70r-71v	De obseruatione quattuor temporum
74v	The council of Ancyra (314), canon 11 with some minor deviations, and a decretal by pope Siricius
74v-75v	Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), chapters II and XI, here titled De ratione coniugum dicta sancti augustini
76v-77r	De consanguinitate
86v-87r	Halitgar of Cambrai's De vitiis et virtutibus, chapters 6-10
101r-v	Short excerpt of Pseudo-Seneca's Liber de moribus
101v	Excerpt of Pseudo-Aristoteles's Aenigmata
	Flyleaf and back cover

Literature

Fournier, ‘Notices sur trois Collections canoniques’ (1926), p. 513-526; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 77, 81, and 164; Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium (1995), p. 200, 804, and 963; Mommsen, Chronica minora Vol. 1 (MGH) (1892), p. 563; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform (1975), p. 120; Munier, Les ‘Statuta ecclesiae antiqua’ (1960), p. 48-49, 59-61, and 228; Pellegrin, Fohlen, Jeudy, Riou, Marucchi, Les manuscrits classiques latins Vol. 2 pars 1 (1978), p. 72-73; Reifferscheid, Bibliotheca patrum (1870), p. 357-360; Reynolds, Law and Liturgy (1994), p. 109 and 115 (IV), 20 no. 28, 24, 28-29 nos. 81 and 90, 31, and 33 no. 119 (VI), 35 (VII), and 311-317 (VIII); Reynolds, ‘The pseudo-augustinian ‘Sermo de conscientia’’ (1971), p. 311 and 313.

An edition of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) is currently being prepared by Sven Meeder, Gideon de Jong, and Bruno Schalekamp.