Berlin, SBPK, lat. fol. 197
| Library | Berlin, SBPK |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | lat. fol. 197 |
| Century | saec. XII |
| Provenance | ? |
| European region of origin | Southern Germany (?) |
| Collection | Collectio Tripartita |
| Description at | 1903 catalogue |
| Description at 2 | 1991 catalogue |
| Description at 3 | HSP |
| Author | Martin Brett |
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, lat. fol. 197 (Rose no. 612) contains the second version of the Collectio Tripartita (siglum S in the Brett/Nowak edition).
Parchment, 189 folios, 315x220 mm, 2 columns, 45 lines (catalogue); Prov. Maria Laach (saec. XV), in 1819 transferred from Paris to Berlin. Rose, Katalog no. 612 dated it saec. XII1/2. The new 1991 catalogue asserts it was written "Südwestdeutschland (?), 12. Jh, 1. Drittel (vor 1130 ?)".
It is an eccentric copy. Apart from the idiosyncratic way in which Tripartita A2.44 comes after Toledo XII, rather than Toledo VII, it has a massive capitulatio to the whole work on fos 1v-18v in which the canons after B29.284 have been added in another hand. The recto of fo.19 is blank, and fos 19v-21v have a synodal order (Schneider's Ordo 17, beginning Hora conuenienti quando episcopo uel eius uicario and ending dies indulgentie uocatur, and including a text of the Admonitio synodalis). A much later text beginning Sicut in construenda domo precipuus est architectoris and ending universali ecclesie nec alteri cuicumque is added in a hand of saec. XVI1/2 on fo. 22r-v; fo. 23r is blank. A list of popes in the main hand on fos 23v-24r runs up to Urban [II], but was subsequently continued to Hadrian [IV]. This is followed by the Ivonian preface (ending as H does, though with variants), and then by the Tripartita preface proper. The usual capitulationes for each section are then inserted in the text in the conventional way. Both the first capitulatio and the text lack A 1.66-7.
Uniquely, it marks a clear break after A 2.49 with a distinctive explicit, and has a large decorated initial to the first cap. of A.2.50. The manuscript was used by Friedberg, and in his apparatus (though not the table in the preface) he sometimes gave a double numbering of Tripartita B in brackets, treating A 2.50 as B. 1. The text ends at B 29.284, followed by five additions apparently peculiar to it. It has A 1.14.14, 1.38.26a and the added canons after B 9.2, and has the re-arranged versions of A 2.39 and B 17. The detailed readings of S are composite. The rubrics, the capitulationes to each section and the general layout are clearly largely derived from a second version, Usually, though not always, they align it closely with CLRX, (as with the marginal notes to A 2.1.10-12) against KNDM, W or BVP, but the main text is much closer to the readings of the earlier version (and particularly H = Berlin, SBPK, Hamilton 345) against all the other copies of the later form. There are two striking cases in A 2.50. In c. 30 a passage has dropped out from all the other later mss by eye-skip, but is present in S, and in c 38 a last sentence is found in the earlier mss, but only in S among the later ones. The effect is less visible in Part B, though still present. Elsewhere in Part B the inscriptions are often truncated or absent, and a number of canons omit the concluding words. There are numerous corrections in another hand, some minor marginal additions, and frequent lexical glosses. It is probably not significant that S, like W, sometimes numbers canons in A 1 which are the only ones in the name of that pope as if they were part of the preceding sequence. In microfilm the rubrics are feint, and not always legible. S was used extensively by the editors of the letters of the popes of the ninth century in the MGH Epistolae series. A number of the readings from S have been verified or supplied by Nowak.
Links
For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition, see Brett/Nowak, Tripartita
Literature
Rose, Katalog no. 612; Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Kataloge der Handschriftenabteilung; 3. Reihe: Illuminierte Handschriften; Bd. 1: Die illuminierten lateinischen Handschriften deutscher Provenienz der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin; Teil 1: Text (1991) p. 60; Kéry, Collections p. 244
