Pseudoisidore AB

The AB version of the False Decretals was called thus by Hinschius because he assumed it was a derivative, mixed version drawing on both A and B. This was mainly due to his dating of the principal manuscript, Vat. lat. 630, to the eleventh century although in fact it was produced in the ninth century. Both the structure and the text of AB are closer to the Hispana than other versions of Pseudoisidore. Hinschius explained this by later reworking, but modern scholarship prefers the much simpler explanation that AB is the earliest of the major recensions, and that B and C in particular are derivative of AB (Fuhrmann p. 156). Like A1, AB (and also B and C) contain all three parts of the False Decretals (first decretal part, conciliar part, second decretal part) but are slightly shorter in part three.

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See the main article Pseudoisidore, False Decretals