Wien, ÖNB, Cod. 2141

Library	Wien, ÖNB
Shelfmark	Cod. 2141
Century	saec. VIII-IX
Provenance
European region of origin	Western Germany
Specific region of origin	Region around Lorsch
Collection	Collectio Quesnelliana
Digital Images	ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Description at	bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital
Description at 2	2014 description by Kautz
CLA	CLA X 1505
Bischoff number	7218 on p. 491
Author	Christof Rolker

Wien, ÖNB, Cod. 2141 is a partial copy of the Collectio Quesnelliana. Because their exemplar was incomplete, the scribes supplemented the Quesnelliana using a copy of the Corpus canonum Africano-Romanum (on fol. 98v-101v and 103v-115v). The documents taken from the Corpus canonum Africano-Romanum are the synods of Antioch (partial), Laodicaea, Constantinople and Carthage 419. According to Turner, the exemplar these texts were copied from was closer to the archetype of this collection than the more complete manuscripts München, BSB, Clm 6243 and Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f. 146. See below for fol. 106r-115v.

Perhaps (Bischoff) or "manifestly" (CLA) from Lorsch, dated saec. VIII/IX (CLA, Bischoff) or about 780 (Kéry)

Contents

According to the description by Kautz, the manuscript contains:

• 1r-169v “Collectio Quesnelliana” canonum et decretalium additis concilii Carthaginiensis a. 419 canonibus
  • 1r-6v Canones concilii Nicaeni I (coll. Quesn. 1, tit. 1-27) una cum 4r-6v Canonibus concilii Serdicensis (coll. Quesn. 1, tit. 28-46)
  • 6v-10r Canones concilii Carthaginiensis a. 397 (Breviarium Hipponense) (coll. Quesn. 2)
  • 10r-12r Canones concilii Ancyrani (coll. Quesn. 3)
  • 12v/13r Canones concilii Neocaesariensis (coll. Quesn. 4)
  • 13r-14v Canones concilii Gangrensis (coll. Quesn. 5)
  • 14v-23r Epistulae synodales et pontificales (coll. Quesn. 6-12)
  • 23r-24r Canones concilii Carthaginiensis a. 418 (coll. Quesn. 13)
  • 24r-33v Epistulae synodales, pontificales et imperiales (coll. Quesn. 14-24)
  • 33v-40r Canones concilii Calchedonensis et Constitutiones Marciani imperatoris (coll. Quesn. 25-28)
  • 40r-51r Epistulae pontificales et Libelli fidei (coll. Quesn. 29-40)
  • 51r-54v Testimonia excerpta de duabus naturis Iesu Christi ex libris patrum (coll. Quesn. 41)
  • 54v-98r Epistulae synodales et pontificales (coll. Quesn. 42-58)
  • 98r-101v Canones concilii Antiocheni (coll. Quesn. 59)
  • 102r-103r Canones concilii Thelensis (coll. Quesn. 62)
  • 103r/v Regula formatarum (coll. Quesn. 63)
  • 103v-105v Canones concilii Laodicensis (coll. Quesn. 60)
  • 105v/106r Canones concilii Constantinopolitani (coll. Quesn. 61)
  • 106r-115v Canones concilii Carthaginiensis a. 419 una cum 108r-110v Canonibus concilii Nicaeni I (vers. Caeciliani)
  • 116r-169v Epistulae synodales et pontificales (coll. Quesn. 64-98)
• 170r-171r Isidorus, Epistula ad Massonam episcopum

Note that Maassen, Geschichte p. 12 suggests that the Nicaean canons at the beginning were not part of the Quesnelliana proper but an addition („vor der Quesnel’schen Sammlung“) peculiar to the Vienna copy, just like the 419 canons (ibidem p. 9).

Literature

Maassen, Geschichte p. 12; CLA 10, no. 1505, p. 20 and p. 49; CLA Suppl. p. 66; Kéry, p. 28; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform p. 10 including n. 38