Florilegium in Pisa, Seminario Santa Catarina, 59

On folios 1–16 of the Ms Pisa, Seminario S. Catarina 59, preceding the abbreviation of version A’ of the collection of Anselm of Lucca, is a florilegium, or as it has been called, a dossier. Most of the texts deal with the rights of monks and monasteries, almost all are taken from the letters of pope Gregory I. At the end of the florilegium are the often cited forgeries Sunt nonnulli (JE † 1996) and Quam sit necessarium (JE † 1366). They are followed by an excerpt from Opusculum 28 of Petrus Damiani and by the decrees Due sunt inquid leges of pope Urban II (JL 5760) and Volumus ac iuxta (JL 6611) of pope Paschal II. The excerpt from Opusculum 28 is found in only one other collection, the collection in the Ms Vat. lat. 1361. The canons are not numbered nor organized into titles. There are very few rubrics. This part of the Pisa manuscript was copied before 1106. There is a catalogue of kings on fol. 16r which must have been copied before the deaths of Henry IV and his namesake. The last rulers named are Curradus, Henrigus, Henrigus filius eius … and Henrigus nepos eius. Conrad is said to have reigned 15 years, Henry III 18 years, and the reign of Henry IV has not yet ended. Apparently his son, who would die before he could succeed his father, was still alive.

The compiler made use of texts from the Diversorum patrum sententie (74T) in the Cassino version. Not satisfied with the inscriptions to the extracts from letters of pope Gregory I, he consulted another source, perhaps a copy of the Register. The extracts from the letters that he cited were sometimes longer, too. The florilegium in the Ms Pisa is almost identical with a florilegium on the first eighteen folios of Firenze, BML, Conv. soppr. 91. The basis of the present analysis is the copy in the Pisa manuscript (CT). In the Florence manuscript the catalogue of kings is missing. Variants in the copy in the Florence manuscript (CU) have been registered.

The possibility cannot be excluded that the florilegium was compiled in northern Italy and brought rather early to Tuscany. A longer [225] version of the Damiani text is found in the Collectio XIII librorum in Vat. lat. 1361 (canon 5. 53, fol. 112vb–114ra). The extract from a letter of pope Paschal II is a later addition to the copy of the Tuscan Liber canonum diversorum sanctorum patrum (Collectio Sancte Marie Novelle) in the Ms Florence, BN Conventi Soppressi A 4.269.

Literature

For the Pisa copy see Giovanni Miccoli, Un florilegio sulla dignità e i diritti del monachesimo (Cod. Pis. S. Cat. 59, fol. 1–16), Bullettino storico pisano 33–35 (1964–65), pp. 117–129. Hubert Mordek informed John Gilchrist of the similarities between the Pisa and the Laurenziana manuscripts. – For the use of Opusculum 28 see Stephan Kuttner and Robert Somerville, The So-called Canons of Nîmes (1096), Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 38 (1970), pp. 177–178. – For the forgery Sunt nonnulli (JE † 1996) see John Gilchrist, The Influence of the Monastic Forgeries attributed to Pope Gregory I (JE † 1951) and Boniface IV (JE † 1996), in: Fälschungen im Mittelalter: Internationaler Kongreß der MGH München, 16.–19. September 1986 (MGH Schriften 33.2, Hanover 1988), 2.263– 287. For the forgery Quam sit necessarium ( JE † 1366) see Fowler-Magerl, Fine Distinctions, pp. 152–166.

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