Collectio Diessensis

Title	Collectio Diessensis
Key	?
Alternative title	Sammlung der Handschrift von Diessen
Century	saec. VII
European region of origin	Southern France
Specific region of origin	Gaul
Author	Christof Rolker

The Collectio Diessensis extant only in München, BSB, Clm 5508 (fragments of which are now München, BSB, Clm 29550/4). In its present, albeit fragmentary form, the Collectio Diessensis consists of 66 documents in total, primarily including synodal acts (Greek, African, Roman and Gallican), papal letters (from Siricius to Hormisda) and a couple of Symmachan documents, which originated with the Laurentian schism in Rome at the beginning of the sixth century.

Contents of the Collectio Diessensis

No.	Numbering	Document	fols.
Text loss: nos. I–V
1	[VI]	Canones apostolorum (Dion. I) – end	1ra–vb
2	VII	Antioch 341 (Isid.)	1vb–5rb
3	VIII	Laodicaea 363/4 (Isid.)	5rb–7rb
4		Constantinople 381 (Isid.)	7rb–vb
5	VIIII	Statuta Ecclesiae antiqua	7vb–11ra
6.1	X	Serdica 342 – Epitome	11ra–vb
6.2	XI	Serdica 342 – unabridged canons	11vb–15vb
7	XII	Arles 314	15vb–17rb
8	XIII	Carthage, 25 May 419	17rb–23ra
9	XIIII–XVI	Regesta ecclesiae Carthaginensis excerpta – beginning	23ra–39vb
Text loss: nos. XVII–XXI
10	[XXII]	Chalcedon 451 (Dion. I) – end	40ra–va
11	XXIII	Siricius: „Directa ad decessorem“ (J3 605)	40va–44rb
12	XXIIII	Epao 517	44va–46rb
13	XXV	Innocent I: „Etsi tibi frater“ (J3 665) – beginning	46va–47vb
Text loss: nos. XXVI–XXVII
14	[XXVIII]	Innocent I: „Magna me gratulatio“ (J3 691) – end	48ra
15	XXVIIII	Zosimus: „Exigit dilectio tua“ (J3 745)	48ra–49ra
16	XXX	Boniface I: „Ecclesiae meae“ (J3 787)	49ra–va
17	XXXI	Rescript of Emperor Honorius „Scripta beatitudinis“	49va–50ra
18		Celestine I: „Cuperemus quidem“ (J3 821)	50ra–51vb
19	XXXII	Celestine I: „Nulli sacerdotum“ (J3 823)	51vb–52rb
20	XXXIII	Gesta de nomine Acacii	52rb–55ra
21	XXXIIII	Leo I: „Quam laudabiliter pro“ (J3 919)	55ra–60rb
22	XXXV	Leo I: „Diuinis praeceptis“ (J3 922)	60rb–63ra
23	XXXVI	Leo I: „Regressus ad nos“ (J3 1086)	63ra–64ra
24	XXXVII	Leo I: „Relatione sancti fratris“ (J3 897)	64ra–65rb
25	XXXVIII	Leo I: „Lectis fraternitatis“ (J3 898)	65rb–vb
26	XXXVIIII	Leo I: „Cum de ordinationibus“ (J3 916)	65vb–68ra
27	XL	Gelasius I: „Necessaria rerum“ (J3 1270)	68ra–73ra
28	XLI	Gelasius I: „Probabilibus desideriis“ (J3 1338)	73rb–va
29	XLII	Gelasius I: „Diligenter inuestigauimus“ (J3 1322) – beginning	73va–vb
Text loss
30	[XLIII]	Rome 499 – end	74ra–75vb
31		Libellus Johannis diaconi	75vb–76ra
32		Rome 502	76ra–79rb
33		Zosimus: „Ex relatione fratris“ (J3 750)	79rb–va
34	XLIIII–XLVIII	Rome 501	79va–85va
35	XLVIIII	Symmachus: „Hortatur nos“ (J3 1460)	85va–86rb
36	L	Hormisda: „Benedicta Trinitas“ (J3 1530)	86rb–87vb
37	LI	Edict of Emperor Glycerius „Supernae maiestatis“	87vb–88vb
38	LII	Order of publication by the PPO Italiae „Quemadmodum“	88vb–88ara
39	LIII	Leo I: „Epistolas fraternitatis“ (J3 1098)	88ara–91ra
40	LIIII–LV	Valence 374	91ra–92rb
41	LVI	Turin 398 – beginning	92rb–vb
Text loss: no. LVII
42	[LVIII]	Orange 441 – end	93ra
43	LVIIII	Vaison 442	93ra–94rb
44	LX	Vaison 529 – beginning	94rb–vb
Text loss: nos. LXI–LXVIIII
45	[LXX]	Ps.-Hieronymus: De septem gradibus Ecclesiae – end	94ara–96vb
46b	LXXI	Agde 506 (cc. 9b–49)	96vb–100vb
47	LXXII	Vannes 461/91	100vb–102rb
48	LXXIII	Letter of the Amoritan bishops „Dominis beatissimis“	102rb–vb
49	LXXIIII	Éauze 551	102vb–103vb
50	LXXV	Paris 614	103vb–106ra
51	LXXVI	Clichy 627	106rb–107avb
46a	LXXVII	Agde 506 (cc. 1–9a)	107avb–108vb
52	LXXVIII	Letter of Lupus and Euphronius „Domino sancto“	108vb–109rb
53	LXXVIIII	Ps.-Vigilius of Thapsus: De Trinitate, book VI	109rb–112ra
54	LXXX	Constitutum Silvestri	112ra–114vb
55	LXXXI	Gesta Liberii	114vb–117ra
56	LXXXII	Gesta de Syxti purgatione	117ra–118rb
57	LXXXIII	Gesta de Polychronii Ierosolymitani	118rb–120rb
58	LXXXIIII	Gesta synodi Sinuessanae de Marcellino	120rb–123va
59	LXXXV	Ps.-Clement: „Quoniam sicut a“ (J3 †27)	123va–124vb
60	LXXXVI	Dicta s. Ambrosii de die prima	124vb–125vb
61	LXXXVII	Synodal letter from Serdica	125vb–126vb
62	LXXXVIII	Definitio fidei from Chalcedon	127ra–128va
63	LXXXVIIII	Symbolum Nicaenum (including the Tomus Damasi)	128va–129vb
64	XC	Expositio fidei	129vb–130ra
65	XCI	Sermo. Credimus Iesum Christum	130ra–rb
66	XCII	De fide catholica. Nos patrem	130rb–va
67		Colophon	130va–vb

containing material similar to the Collectio Sanblasiana; the most recent material are canons from Clichy 626 (Maassen, p. 631). According to Hoskin p. 106, the first part of the Diessensis depends on the Dionysiana. specifically a Collectio Dionysiana I "for its conciliar material", while the second draws on the Collectio Frisingensis I. He also proposed that the similarities to Collectio Teatina (sequence of the letters and textual variants) can best be explained by a common source which he labeled "proto-3".

Links

• Mirabile https://www.mirabileweb.it/title/collectio-diessensis-title/172990

Literature

Maassen, pp. 624-636; Kéry, Collections pp. 3-4; Hoskin, Manuscripts p. 106.