Collectio Vaticana in Vat. lat. 1342
| Title | Collectio Vaticana in Vat. lat. 1342 |
|---|---|
| Key | ? |
| Alternative title | Sammlung in der vaticanischen Handschrift (Maassen, Geschichte p. 512) |
| Century | saec. VIII |
| European region of origin | Central Italy |
| General region of origin | Southern Europe and Mediterranean |
| Specific region of origin | Rome |
| Main author | Christof Rolker |
The Collectio Vaticana in Vat. lat. 1342 is a small canon law collection extant in four manuscripts. The collection orginally may date from the sixth century (Maassen), but as Vocino and West have pointed out, all extant copies contain canons of the 743 Roman synod, so the present form was only produced in the eighth century.
According to Maassen, Geschichte p. 462 is closely related to the ‚vermehrte Hadriana‘ (aka Dionysiana adaucta). Maassen described it as one of his four Italian collections of the sixth century (the other three being the Collectio Sanblasiana, Collectio Teatina, and Collectio Justelliana.
Manuscripts
Maassen, Geschichte p. 512-513 listed three copies of the collection:
- Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 1342 (http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.1342)
- "Cod. Barber. XIV. 52 (ol. 2888)" = Città del Vaticano, BAV, Barb. lat. 679
- "Cod. 82 bibl. aedil. Florent. eccl." = Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Edili 82
In addition, he listed three mansucripts containing only parts or excerpts of the collection:
- "Cod. Sessor. CCV." = Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Sessor. CCV (2100)
- "Cod. Bodleian. 893" = Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. misc. 421 (https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/15e4bce8-7ca9-4b30-aa96-40093b35a44c/),
- "Cod. Novar. XXX. (66)" = Novara, Archivio Storico Diocesano, XXX
Following Mordek and Zechiel-Eckes, Kéry, Collections p. 25 added one more complete copy (elsewhere decribed as a copy of the Dionysiana) and one more manuscript with excerpts:
- Düsseldorf, ULB, E.1 (https://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ms/content/titleinfo/3870845)
- Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana, 125
Vocino and West have pointed out that all (complete) manuscript are from Carolingian Italy and argue for a later date of compilation; they also listed another manuscript (a double codex) containing excerpts:
- "The eighth-century Collectio Vaticana, though probably compiled before Charlemagne’s conquest in 774, was evidently of considerable interest in Carolingian Italy, from which all the surviving complete manuscripts derive: Vat. lat. 1342 (s. viiiex), Barb. lat. 679 (s. viiiex–ixin) and Düsseldorf ULB E 1 (s. ixex), as well as Edili 82 (s. ixex). It is moreover likely that these manuscripts are but the remains of an originally rather more substantial transmission. Two other Carolingian canon law codices (Novara, Biblioteca Capitolare XXX (66) and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. misc. 421) include the capitulatio or contents page of the Collectio Vaticana, while two ninth-century Italian manuscripts (Lucca, Biblioteca Capitolare Feliniana, MS 125 and Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Hänel 8+9) contain excerpts from it."
On the latter excerpts, see Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Hänel 8+9.
Literature
- Maassen, Geschichte p. 512
- Kéry, Collections p. 25
- Giorgia Vocino and Charles West, "On the life and continence of judges": the production and transmission of imperial legislation in late Ottonian Italy, https://doi.org/10.4000/mefrm.4763
Categories
- not in Clavis
- saec. VI (Maassen) but extant version is post 743 (West)
- from Rome
- this article is a stub
