Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, 2102

Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, 2102 (Sessor. LXIII) (commonly "Sessor. LXIII" only; "Cod. lat. 2102" in the index to ACO) contains a canon law collection and various other pieces (including Pseudo-Augustine's De ecclesiae regulis and the so-called Decretum Gelasianum). Hinschius, Nachrichten pp. 456-459 describes the contents in detail. Mordek, Kirchenrecht p. 153 asserts it was written at Nonantola saec. IX 2/4; the papal catalogue was updated around 1100, and at the very end there are late-medieval additions.

The collection on fol. 4-196 is normally described as a Hadriana (Hinschius, Nachrichten p. 456: "Dionysiana in der Hadrianischen Fassung"; Maassen, Geschichte p. 442). Maassen, who had not seen the original, pp. 33 n. 2, 51, 307, 351, 354, 394, 402 pointed out similarities to the version in München, BSB, Clm 3860a in particular. Kéry, Collections p. 17 calls it the "Nonantola recension of the Hadriana". However, Wurm and Brett have pointed out that in several respects the collection in Roma, BNC, 2102 "link it with the enlarged Dionysiana rather than the Hadriana proper" (Brett, Theodore p. 143 n. 44).

Wurm, Studien op. 31 lists it among the manuscript (his Ds) of the "pure Dionysiana" but at the same time calls it an augmented version:

eine vermehrte Dionysiana, ähnlich der Hadriana, danach eine Reihe sonst der „vermehrten Dionysiana" eigentümlicher Stücke. Ihr Autor hat nach Ausweis einiger Notizen wie „usque hic habet apostolicus" sein Exemplar mit einem Exemplar der Hadriana verglichen.

The decretals which Wurm, p. 79 lists as being found in the Sessorianus copy on fol. 75v-135v are those also found in Paris, BnF, lat. 3837 and Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 5845 plus pieces Wurm regards as later additions: Zosimus' JK 345 on fol. 122r-v (his no. 23a), Leo's JK 410 on fol. 152r-155v (no. 37a), and unspecified decretals by popes Hilarius, Simplicius, and Felix (no 37b). Brett, Theodore p. 132 n. 44 adds that the Sessorianus contains Hormisda's JK 800, too. According to Wurm, Studien p. 53, the collection proper is preceded by a numbered list of popes of whom decretals are extant, beginning fol. 4 with "Epistolae decretales XII. Papae Sirici. XIII papae Innocentii [...]". He also stresses that the only other Dionysiana manuscript to have such a list was Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare, CLXV (which according to Kéry p. 17 only contains the conciliar canons of the Dionysiana).

Literature

Note that the manuscript is not mentioned in Jasper, Letters.

Reifferscheid, Bibliotheca patrum p. 130; Hinschius, Nachrichten pp. 456-459 (https://doi.org/10.48644/mpirg_escidoc_92049#?page=460); Wurm, Studien pp. 21 n. 46, 31, 41, 44-45, 50, n. 71, 53-56 n. 74, 79 (Ds); Mordek, Kirchenrecht p. 153; Brett, Theodore p. 132 (with bibliography n. 44); Kéry, Collections p. 17.

Categories

• Manuscript
• not digitized, whishlist
• From Nonantola (Mordek)
• saec. IX ca. 2/4 (Mordek)