Collectio Sanblasiana

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Title Collectio Italica
Key ?
Century saec. VI
Main author Christof Rolker


Title

The title Collectio Italica goes back to Wirbelauer; in the older literature it is known as Sammlung der Handschrift von Sanct Blasien (Maassen), Collectio canonum Sancti Blasii (BnF), or (most frequently) Sanblasiana (Kéry).

Manuscripts

The following extant manuscripts are known:

Maassen, Geschichte, 504 dates "Cod. Sanblasianus 6 [sic]" to the sixth century. Note that Kéry dates none of her mss that early; see Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, 7 1 for detail. Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, p. 122, also counts Clm 5508 as a copy of the Italica, but only with important qualifications: both BnF lat. 1455 and Clm 5508 "sollten in den betreffenden Teilen ... als (erweiterte) Italica-Überlieferungen [bezeichnet werden]" (p. 122 n. 48). Kéry, Collections p. 30 only mentions Clm 5508 as a copy of the Collectio Frisingensis I (p. 2) and the Collectio Diessensis (p. 4). She does not mention the Malibu manuscript. Instead, she additionally refers to a "large fragment" of the Italica in a private collection: "Cheltenham, Phillipps Collection, 17849, saec. VIIIex Italy; cf. CLA 2², no. 143, pp. 8, 49, 57. After World War II it was acquired by Dr. M. Bodmer (Cologny near Geneva)."

Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, p. 122 distinguishes five manuscripts (Cologne, BnF lat. 3836, Malibu, Sankt Paul, Lucca) as untouched by Carolingian influence from the other three manuscripts (Clm 5508, BnF lat. 1455 and 4279) which are influenced by Carolingian reworking but still preserve much ancient material ("haben viel Vorkarolingisches bewahrt").


Date

The most recent material is from the early sixth century; according to Maassen, the Sankt Paul manuscript (his "Cod. Sanblasianus 6") dates from the sixth century (Geschichte, p. 504).

Content and Structure

The collection is chronologically arranged. Wirbelauer (p. 123) divides the material into five sections (A-E):

  1. Conciliar canons (Nicaea to Antiochia)
  2. Symmachian Documenta (his "SD I")
  3. Papal letters "in chronologischer Abfolge von Siricius bis Leo"
  4. Creeds
  5. Appendices: Serdica to Julius and two letters of Gelasius I (JK 636 and 675)

Literature

Note that the Italica is not mentioned in the 2005 Clavis handbook (nor is it in the 2005 database).

Kéry, Collections p. 29ff.

Maassen, Geschichte p. 500-512.

Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, 122-125.

Categories

  • saec. VI
  • Collection
  • Italian
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