Collectio Dionysiana II

Title	Collectio Dionysiana II
Key	DY
Alternative title	Zweite Redaction der Conciliensammlung (Maassen)
Alternative title	Sammlungen des Dionysius Exiguus (Maassen)
Alternative title	Dionysiana altera (Schwartz)
Alternative title	Codex canonum ecclesiasticorum Dionysii Exigui
Size	Small (100 to 500 canons)
Terminus post quem	496
Terminus ante quem	523
Century	saec. VI
Place of origin	Rome
European region of origin	Central Italy
General region of origin	Southern Europe and Mediterranean
Main author	User:Christof Rolker

General

Dionysius Exiguus soon after he had compiled the first version of the Dionysiana felt the need to improve on his first translation. Doing so, he added more material (importantly, 50 of the Canones Apostolorum, renumbered the canons, and wrote a new preface. In three manuscripts, this conciliar material is combined with a decretal collection containing a total of 38 decretals (of popes Siricius, Innocent I, Zosimus, Bonifacius I, Celestinus I, Leo I, Gelasius I, and Anastasius II) and one imperial rescript. This decretal collection is introduced by a dedicatory letter to a certain priest Julian.

The revised version is known as the Dionysiana II (DY in the database), although scholars disagree whether the decretal collection is an integral part of it or not. In the database, it has the key DX.

Content and Structure

Prefatory Matter and Canon Numbering

In the copy of this second version of the Dionysiana in Oxford, Bodleian Library, e Mus. 103 (9th century, northeastern France) and in separate copies of the prologue in the Mss Paris, BnF, lat. 1451, Paris, BnF, lat. 3846, and Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, Cod. 212 the introductory letter is directed to a bishop Stephan of Salona on the Dalmatian coast.

In the Bodleian copy the letter is followed by a capitulatio with rubrics for all of the canons in the collection. The Greek canons from the councils of Nicaea through Constantinople are numbered without interruption from 1 to 165. Dionysius says that the collection he was using as his source also numbered them so. The canons of Chalcedon are numbered separately and so are the canons of Sardica. Following Sardica is a group of canons from three brief African collections: the Brevarium Hipponense of 397, the Codex Apiarii Causae of 419 and the Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta. Dionysius referred to this group of canons as Synodus apud Carthaginem Africanorum quae constituit canones CXXXVIII and numbered the individual canons accordingly from 1 to 138. The compilers of the Collectio Hispana would take these texts from the Dionysiana.

Copies similar to that in the Bodleian manuscript are found in Paris, BnF, lat. 1536 (10th century) and Paris, BnF, lat. 3848 (13th century) and in St. Petersburg, Publičnaja Biblioteka im. M. E. Saltykova-Ščedrina, F.v.II.3 (7th century, Burgundy).

Addition of the Decretals?

Modern scholarship often describes (or at least treats) the Dionysiana II as containing the reworked conciliar canons and papal decretals, just as Juret presented it in his edition.

However, Abigail Firey pointed out that there are only three manuscripts containing the second version of the councils and the decretal collections, and that this may well be the result of a later combination of the materials rather than reflecting Dionysius' original plan. Indeed, already Maassen had referred to the Dionysiana II as the "zweite Redaction der Conciliensammlung" and treated the "Decretalensammlung" as a separate work by a different compiler: "Es unterliegt daher nicht dem mindesten Zweifel, dass diese Decretalen nicht von Dionysius selbst in die Sammlung aufgenommen, sondern ein späterer Zusatz sind." (p. 436). Maassen p. 438 also pointed out that Pope Zachary in Gaudio magno when quoting both councils and decretals from a version of the Dionysiana still distinguished liber canonum and liber decretorum, indicating an existence as two distinct collections still in the eighth century.

The manuscripts

There are 2 manuscripts of the Dionysiana II described in this Wiki. See Category:Manuscript of DY and the individual entries:

• Paris, BnF, lat. 3837
• Paris, BnF, lat. 3847, excerpt
• Paris, BnF, lat. 10399, excerpt
• Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 5845
• Modena, Biblioteca Capitolare, O.I.12

The editions

The editio princeps of the Dionysiana II was published by Christophe Justel in 1628, using the Bodleian manuscript. As Firey points out, Justel must have used a different source for the decretal part. This edition was reprinted with minimal changes in 1643, and again in 1661 as part of the Bibliotheca iuris canonici veteris, edited by his son Henri together with Guillaume Voel. The 1661 edition in turn was reprinted in Migne PL 67.137–230 (councils) and 230–316 (decretals).

The present analysis is based on Migne PL 67. For the conciliar canons, only the material not in the first version has been entered in the database with the key DY. For the conciliar canons which were rearranged, no separate entry was created; insted, the numbering of Juret (as found in PL 67) is given in the location column of the decretal part of the fist version (search DY in the "Location" like here). The „African canons“ are listed separately with the same key. The decretal part of the second version was entered into the databased from Migne PL 67. The decretals of each pope are divided into paragraphs and these are numbered separately for each pope, not separately for each letter. The key is DX.

• Codex canonum ecclesiasticorum Dionysii Exigui, ed. Christophe Justel (Paris 1628 and 1643).
• Bibliotheca iuris canonici veteris [...] vol. 1, ed. Guillaume Voel and Henri Justel (Paris 1661), 97–180. Online at https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dozp_JFtZCgC/page/n6/mode/1up
• PL 67, col. 137–316. Online at https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecurs108unkngoog/page/n76/mode/1up

Literature

See Dionysiana I. - The Brevarium Hipponense of 397, the Codex Apiarii Causae of 419 and the Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta after 419 were edited by Charles Munier, Concilia Africae A. 345 – A. 525 (CCL 149, Turnhout 1974), pp. 22–53, 98–148 and 173–247 respectively. For a description of these texts see F. L. Cross, History and Fiction in the African Canons, Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 12 (1961), pp. 227–247. – For the source of the decretals used by Dionysius Exiguus see Wurm, Studien und Texte, pp. 108 ff. Also Jasper, The Beginning of the Decretal Tradition, pp. 28 n. 111, 35 f, 50 f, 53 and 60 n. 249. – Kéry, Collections pp. 11-21; for the Quesnelliana pp. 27–29.

Categories

• Which key should be used in the categories (DX or DY)?
• belongs to: Dionysiana group
• small (100 to 500 canons) collection
• from Rome
• saec. VI
• based on Migne
• Collection only partly in database (only additional material not in Dionysiana I, location colum used to indicte rearrangements)
• Perhaps split the article (see discussion page)?

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