Collectio Sanblasiana

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

Title

The title Collectio Italica goes back to Wirbelauer; in the older literature including Kéry, it is known as Sanblasiana.

Manuscripts

According to Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, p. 122, the Italica is an important pre-Carolingian collection extant in five pre-Carolingian manuscripts:

• Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, 213
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 3836
• Malibu,
• Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, 7 1 (= Maassen's "Cod. Sanblasianus 6", apparently)
• Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana, 490

and three later ones:

• München, BSB, Clm 5508
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1455
• Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 4279

Kéry, Collections p. 30 lists only six manuscripts (Cologne, Lucca, Sankt Paul, and the three Paris mss) and additionally refers to a "large fragment" in a private collection: "Cheltenham, Phillipps Collection, 17849, saec. VIII™ Italy; cf. CLA 27, no. 143, pp. 8, 49, 57. After World War IT it was acquired by Dr. M. Bodmer (Cologny near Geneva)."

Date

The terminus ante quem is that of the earliest known manuscript, which is dated to the sixth century.

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

The Italica is not mentioned in the Clavis handbook.

• Kéry, Collections p. 29-31.
• Maassen, Geschichte p. 504.
• Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste, 122-125.

Categories

• not in Clavis
• saec. VI
• Collection
• Italian
• this article is a stub
• not in Clavis