Collectio Colbertina

Title	Collectio Colbertina
Key	?
Century	saec. VI? VII? VIII?
Place of origin	Gaul? Italy? Northern France?
General region of origin	Southern Europe and Mediterranean?
Author	Christof Rolker

The Collectio Colbertina extant only in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1455 fol. 1-79 takes its name from the former owner of this manuscript, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. The collection contains the full Collectio Sanblasiana and excerpts from the Collectio Quesnelliana.

Maassen, Geschichte p. 536 treated it as a separate collection ("Sammlung der Colbert’schen Handschrift"), and so did Elliot, Canon Law, p. 240: "[...] the Collectio Colbertina (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Lat. 1455 [s. ix3/4–4/4, Reims region]), compiled no earlier than the mid sixth century by combining the entirety of Coll.Sanb. with material from other collections, including Coll.Quesn." Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, p. 194 treats the Colbertina as a separate collection, but for some materials like a version of the Sanblasiana (pp. 194 and 122 n. 48). The place of origin is unknown; Kéry, Collections p. 31 reports "Gaul (Maassen); Northern France or Rhine region (Van Hove) (Stickler: more likely in Italy); Le Bras, “Notes III’ 514 n. 3: perhaps Rome?". Likewise, the date is uncertain, as Elliot, Canon Law, p. 234 noted: "the Colbertina may be as early as the middle of the sixth or as late as the eighth century."

The manuscript

For manuscripts, see Category:Manuscript of Collectio Colbertina (number of entries: 1).

• Paris, BnF, lat. 1455

Literature

• Kéry, Collections p. 30 (as a copy of Sanblasiana) and 31-32 (Colbertina).
• Maassen, Geschichte p. 536-542.
• Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, pp. 193-194 and 122.