Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Car. C. 42

Library	Zürich, Zentralbibliothek
Shelfmark	Car. C. 42
Century	saec. XII
Provenance	?
European region of origin	unknown
Collection	Collectio Tripartita
Author	Martin Brett

Zurich, Zentralbibliothek Car. C 42 (Mohlberg no. 250) contains the second version of the Collectio Tripartita. This copy was first called to more general attention by Robert Somerville.

saec. XII, probably quite early, in two columns, and in several hands; belonged to the nunnery of SS Felix and Regula OSB at Zurich (the Frauenmünster) later.

It has the second version text in a form which belongs in general with the CLRS complex, and agrees most often, though not always, with R (= Reg. lat. 973) with which it shares a number of omissions, which are more often supplied later in R than in X. Sometimes however it agrees with C even against L. Like CLR (and S) it has Tripartita A1.14.14, A1.38.26a and the added canons after B9.2, and has the re-arranged versions of A2.39 and B17. It has no idiosyncratic additions. Frequent corrections, and additions of text originally omitted, have been inserted by an early hand (perhaps that of the rubricator) in the text and margins, clearly from the exemplar, or from another copy in the same tradition.

Links

For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition, see Brett/Nowak, Tripartita

Literature

Mohlberg, Mittelalterliche Handschriften no. 250; Kéry, Collections p. 245