Wien, ÖNB, Cod. 522

Library	Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Shelfmark	Cod. lat. 522
Century	s. IX⅔
General region of origin	Salzburg
Collection	Collectio CCL capitulorum
Collection 2	Collectio CCCC capitulorum
Collection 3	Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)
Main author	Bruno Schalekamp
Main author	Sven Meeder

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. lat. 522 is a middle ninth-century manuscript of 206 folios in 1 col. and 20-21 lines (235 x 160 mm (173-180 x 120 mm)). Its codicological composition is unknown and only a few inconsistent quire signatures were included: I⁸, I⁷⁹, and XIII¹⁰³, XIIII¹¹¹, XV¹¹⁹, XVI¹²⁷, and XXI¹⁶⁷ – only the topside of the last three mentioned numerals are visible – in Roman numerals in black ink on verso sides. Modern foliation numbering in Arabic numerals and lead pencil. It was written by several hands in Caroline minuscule in saec. IX^⅔ according to Kéry and Mordek, probably during the reign of archbishop Liuphram (836-859) according to Bischoff. Its older catalogue dated the manuscript to saec. X, which may be considered outdated. The manuscript's origin is from Salzburg according to the abovementioned authors, and more specifically St. Peter’s Abbey according to its online catalogue. It probably remained there in the Domkapitelbibliothek until 1806 when it was transferred to the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

Contents

The codex is a large-sized codex and contains mostly canonical material, dominated by both the Collectio CCL capitulorum and Collectio CCCC capitulorum. A few chapters of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) were incorporated in the former collection. The rest of the manuscript for the most part comprises either pope Gregory the Great's Concordia or Bede's De natura rerum and (a few chapters of) De ratione temporum. An (Irish) text on gospel meditation and an unknown work titled Uersus de conditore templi conclude the last added textual witnesses in the manuscript.

Fol. 90v of the manuscript, showing the first few chapters of Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)

See the digitized version: https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_3320833&order=1&view=SINGLE.

folios	texts
	Front cover
1r	Blank page
1v-2v	An ‘Irish’ interpretation of gospel meditation, according to Bischoff. Categorized as Scholastica de evangeliis in its catalogue.
2v-3r	Uersus de conditore templi
3r and 4r-29r	Bede's De natura rerum, a complete witness. Fol. 3v is a blank page
29r-57r	Pope Gregory the Great's Concordia quorumdam testimoniorum sacrae Scripturae, a complete witness
57r-113v	Collectio CCL capitulorum, including:
	90v-93v: Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), taken up into collection and untitled
113v-192v	Collectio CCCC capitulorum. Fols. 118v and 138v are blank pages
192v-205r	Bede's De ratione temporum, chapters 67-71
205v-206v	Blank pages
	Back cover

Literature

Bischoff, ‘An Hiberno-Latin Introduction’ (1979), p. 234-236; Bischoff, Schreibschulen Vol. 2 (1980), p. 82 and 159-160; Fransen, ‘Trente-quatre questions sur Saint Paul’ (1963), p. 244-276; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 77, 83, and 163; Kendall, Wallis, Bede On the Nature of Things (2010), p. 55 n. 135; Lhotsky, Quellenkunde (1963), p. 150; Mazal, ‘Die Salzburger Dom- und Klosterbibliothek’ (1997), p. 44-64; Meeder, 'Biblical past and canonical present: the case of the Collectio 400 capitulorum'; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform (1975), p. 258-259; Reynolds, ‘Canon law collections’ (1980), p. 15-34; Reynolds, ‘Unity and Diversity’ (1983), p. 99-135; Tabulae Codicum (1864), p. 88-89; Unterkircher, ‘Die karolingischen Salzburger Einbände’ (1955), p. 41-53; Vezin, ‘Les plus anciennes reliures de cuir’ (1988), p. 391-408.

The edition of the Collectio CCCC capitulorum by Sven Meeder will soon be in print. Furthermore, an edition of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) is currently being prepared by Sven Meeder, Gideon de Jong, and Bruno Schalekamp.