Pseudoisidore A1

The A1 version of the False Decretals is the most prominent of the six versions of this collection ever since Hinschius published his 1863 edition which is still being used today. He labelled the group of manuscripts A1 as he assumed that they were closed to the original form of the forgeries, and the main text of his edition is largely that of the A1 recension, or what Hinschius thought was A1 (Paris, BnF, lat. 9629, his Leithandschrift, is in fact an A/B manuscript).

Contents

The A1 version of the False Decretals is the complete version and contains the following texts:

• Preface
• Decretals from Clement I to Melchiades
  • Correspondence between Aurelius of Carthage and Damasus I
  • A conciliar ordo
  • table of contents
  • 50 Canones Apostolorum
  • 60 Decretals from Clement/Anaclete to Melchiades
• Councils
  • De primitiva ecclesia
  • Constitutum Constantini
  • Quo tempore actuum sit Nicenum concilium
  • Epistola vel praefatio Niceni concilii
  • Canons of 54 councils from the Greek councils up to and including Toledo XIII of 683
  • The Capitula of Martin of Braga are found in between the conciliar canons
• Decretals (and conciliar canons) from Silvester I to Gregory II
• Some 25 decretals and other pieces (pre-Pseudoisidorian forgeries, Pseudoisidorian forgeries, genuine materials)

The False Decretals in the Database

The present analysis (IS) includes only the forged decretals from Clement to Damasus. These decretals have the original rubrics of the forgers. The Clavis databse entries are based on the edition of Paul Hinschius, Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae (Leipzig 1863); online.

Editions and Literature

See the main article Pseudoisidore, False Decretals