Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1352
| Place | Citta del Vaticano (Vatican City) |
|---|---|
| Library | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana |
| Shelfmark | lat. 1352 |
| Century | saec. XI2 |
| General region of origin | Italy |
| ISIL no. | unknown |
| Collection | Quadripartitus |
| Collection 2 | Burchard of Worms, Liber decretorum (excerpts of) |
| Main author | Bruno Schalekamp |
Vaticano, Citta del, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, lat. 1352 is an eleventh-century manuscript (second half) of 97 folios in 1 col. (fols. 1r-91r and 92r-97v) and 2 cols (fols. 91r-v) (275 x 180 mm). Its codicological composition reads as follows: III6 + 6 x IV53 + (I + 1)56 + (IV +1)65 + 3 x IV89 + (III + 1)97; quire signatures in Roman numerals start at I6 until XI81, modern foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink. It was written in Italy, but the exact location of its composition is unknown as yet and was written by various hands from saec. XI-XII in late Caroline minuscule. It has been in possession of the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana since 1594.
Contents
Manuscript Vat. lat. 1352 is a relatively bulky, middle to late ninth-century codex and contains a wide range of canonical material (most notably and prominently the Quadripartitus).
| folios | texts |
|---|---|
| Front cover | |
| 1r-84r | Collectio canonum Quadripartita (Quadripartitus), books 1-4 |
| 1r-4v | Book 1, including dedicatory letter, preface, and list of titles |
| 4v-16r | Book 2, including preface and list of titles. Fol. 6ra-vb is a restored page. |
| 16r-52r | Book 3, including preface and list of titles |
| 52r-84r | Book 4, including preface, list of titles, and epilogue. Fol. 56r-v includes two mall excerpts of books 17 and 19 of Burchard’s Decretum. Fol. 62r includes an Arbor iuris-diagram. Also known as a table of consanguinuity. The folio itself is an added folio. |
| 84v-96v | Excerpts of books 1-3, 5-6, 9-10, 12, 16-17, and 19 of Burchard’s Decretum. |
| 96v-97r | Cantus, titled Dum medium silentium. |
| 97r | Gregory the Great: Moralia in Iob, chapter 22 verse 5. Added by an untrained and later hand. Also includes an unknown short prayer at the bottom of the fol.: Respice domine famulum..., which was also added by a later hand |
| Multiple flyfleafs and back cover |
Literature
Brommer, ‘Die bischöfliche Gesetzgebung’ (1974), p. 114; Florio, Inventarium Vol. 3 (1613), p. 77-78; Kerff, Quadripartitus (1982), p. 30-32; Kéry, Canonical collections (1999), p. 168; Ladner, Images and Ideas Vol. 1 (1983), p. 267, n. 102; Ladner, ‘Understanding of Symbolism’ (1979), p. 244-245, nos. 102 and 109; Maassen, Geschichte (1870), p. 852; Meens, ‘Penitentials and the practice of penance’ (2006), p. 15, n. 40; Mordek, Kirchenrecht (1975), p. 172; Munier, Les sources patristiques (1957), p. 15; Schmitz, Bussbücher Vol. 1 (1883), p. 718; Vol. 2 (1898), p. 385, 391, 399, and 472; Selborne, Ancient Facts (1888), p. 230, 236, and 327-331.
See also Michael Elliot's extensive work and draft editions of the Quadripartitus on his own website: http://individual.utoronto.ca/michaelelliot/.
Categories
- Manuscript
- digitized
- saec XI
- from Italy
