Città del Vaticano, BAV, Reg. lat. 421
Place | Città del Vaticano (Vatican City) |
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Library | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana |
Shelfmark | Reg. lat. 421 |
Century | s. IX to XVII (ten parts from different periods) |
General region of origin | for the most part at St. Gallen (Kéry) |
ISIL no. | unknown |
Collection | Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) |
Main author | Bruno Schalekamp |
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 421 is a ninth to seventeenth-century composite manuscript of 33 folios in 1 col. (fols. 1r-6r and 7v-33v) and 2 cols. (fol. 7r) (220 x 152 mm) made of both parchment and paper. Its codicological composition is unknown and no quire signatures were included. Arabic numerals are found on the recto side of each folio in (early) modern hand. The codex consists of ten parts and fragments, each with their own dating: part I: fols. 1-4, s. XII; part II: fols. 5-15, s. XIin; part III: fol. 16, s. X-XI; part IV: fols. 17-19, s. XI; part V: fol. 20, s. IX-X (catalogue); part VI: fols. 21-25, s. IX2-3/3 (Kéry), s. IX; part VII: fol. 26, s. XI; part VIII: fols. 27-28, s. IX-X; part IX: fols. 29-32, s. XVII; part X: fol. 33, s. IX-X (catalogue)
TO BE FINISHED It was written by one hand in Caroline minuscule. The manuscript's origins has been argued to either originate from the area (around) of St. Gallen according to Kéry and Reynolds, or from the Swabian region or around Lake Constance according to its catalogue. The codex's provenance is not completely clear, but it is known - at the earliest - to have been in possession of Christina, Queen of Sweden, in 1656, based on various notes by a librarian of Antwerp on fols. 1r-2r (see fol. 2r, for example: Volumen CXVIII Non Petauianum).
Contents
TO BE FINISHED The manuscript is a medium-sized codex and contains mostly canonical material. Most prominently, the Collectio II librorum/VIII partium takes up about half of the folios, followed by an unknown 'collection' (?) of various patristic excerpts (Augustine, Jerome, Isidore, Gregory the Great, and Seneca among others) and some conciliar material (including Halitgar of Cambrai and the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)). It also includes the Notitia Galliarum in between the two books of the first canonical collection. According to Mommsen the Notitia Galliarum may have been copied from the manuscript St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 397, based on the ‘germanic type’ of ligatures. This may point to its provenance from the area around St. Gallen.
See the digitized version: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.421.
folios | texts |
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Front cover and flyleaf | |
1r | Hebrew carmen with Latin interpretation, starting with: immeloc adonai malach... |
1v-5r | Collection of various songs and poems. Includes no. 721 of the Anthologia Latina on fol. 2v |
5v-6r | Poem by Israel the Grammarian, titled Versus de arte metrica |
6r | Unknown short poem, titled Sinostram lector festucam tollere queras |
6v | Blank page |
7r-14r | Collection of poems dedicated to Hadewiga, using the metrum choriambicum |
14v | Small collection of charms and prayers |
14v-15r | The Lord’s Prayer in Greek with Latin translation |
15r-v | Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in Greek with Latin translation. Note the absence of filioque after pater at the very bottom of fol. 15r |
15v | Greek litany transcribed into Latin and Greek Sanctus transcribed into Latin |
16r | Isidore de Seville's De fide Catholica, book 1, chapters 7-8 |
16v | Blank page |
17r-18v | Collection of short excerpts on liturgical vestments |
18v | On liturgical vestments |
19r-v | On baptism |
20r-v | On fasting |
21r | Various short poems. Includes no. 487d of the Anthologia Latina |
21v-22r | De obseruatione quattuor temporum |
22v | Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) |
22v-23v | St. Jerome's Ex Commentariis in Matthaeum excerptum |
23v-24r | On consanguinity |
24r | Various probationes pennae, including a sentence from St. Augustine's Civitate Dei, book 3, chapter 20 |
24v | Short note on six Gallic bishops and a short treatise on six major ecumenical councils, titled De sex Synodis generalibus |
25r | Blank page |
25v | Ordo on the wedding and coronation of a Carolingian royal couple |
26r | Exempla literarum: overview of the alphabet interlinked with numerals and ‘literary numbers’ |
26v | Blank page |
27r-v | Paul the Deacon’s epitaph for Chlodarius’ son: Epitaphium Chlodarii pueri regis |
27r-v | Various short poems. Includes no. 487d of the Anthologia Latina |
27v | Two short poems, nos. 738a and 685 of the Anthologia Latina |
27v-28r | Alcuin's second poem |
28r-v | Various short poems. Includes no. 738b of the Anthologia Latina |
29r-32v | Various short poems from different authors in early modern hand. Includes nos. 682, 685, 686, 689, and 950 of the Anthologia Latina. Other works included are: |
29v | Excerpt of Ovid's Ars amatoria |
29v-29ar | Ausonius's Epigrammata de diversis rebus |
29ar-29av | Alcuin's Versus de cuculo |
29av | Excerpts of Eugenius of Toledo’s poems |
30v-31r | Pseudo-Ovid or Alcuin's Conflictus ueris et hiemis |
31v | Excerpt of Isidore de Seville's Versus in bibliotheca |
32v | Walafrid Strabo, poem 42: Epitaphium Werdonis abbatis |
33r-v | Latin hymn on the Day of Judgement, starting on the fifth verse |
Back cover |
Literature
Dümmler, Die handschriftliche Überlieferung (1879), p. 106-107 and 126; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 77 and 81; Klein, ‘Ediertes und inediertes’ (1868), p. 191-192; Pellegrin, Fohlen, Jeudy, Riou, Marucchi, Les manuscrits classiques latins Vol. 2 pars 1 (1978), p. 74-76; Riou, ‘Quelques aspects de la tradition manuscrite’ (1972), p. 23, 26, 33 n. 4, and 35-36.
An edition of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) is currently being prepared by Sven Meeder, Gideon de Jong, and Bruno Schalekamp.