Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 4977
Two manuscripts were bound together to make the present Vat. lat. 4977. The first contains a version of 74T (Clavis key XA). The second part of the manuscript (which is incomplete at the beginning) contains a canonical collection; its Clavis key is XB. On fol. 24 is the end of an excerpt from an unidentified papal letter. This is followed by extracts from other papal letters and conciliar canons taken from the Dionysio-Hadriana. This manuscript also contains excerpts from the Liber decretorum of Burchard and the Beneventan Collectio V librorum. The most recent text in the collection deals with sacrifice and is what Robert Somerville calls an „enigmatic fragment“: Sive per bonos sacerdotes … custodit et benedicit (canon 189). It is attributed to Gregorii pape et Urbani secundi pape. The same inscription appears in the Beneventan Collectio Casinensis which also has extracts from Burchard and the Collectio V librorum. Folios are missing in the manuscript between the present folios 49 and 50 and between folios 58 and 59. 205
Literature
For the use of the Collectio V librorum see Reynolds, The South-Italian Canon Law Collection, pp. 278–295. – For the first six folios of the present manuscript see Kuttner, Some Roman Manuscripts, pp. 7–9. He recognized the use of Gratian. – For the canon attributed to both Gregory VII and Urban II see Somerville, Urban II, p. 124 n. 203. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, p. 280.
