Florilegium in Yale, Beinecke 442

Title	Florilegium in New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 442
Key	?
Century	?
Main author	Fowler-Magerl, Linda

A number of copies of the long version of the False Decretals contains a florilegium of excerpts from the register of Gregory the Great. The oldest manuscript according to Kerner et al is New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 442. The florilegium contains 46 (Kerner et al) or 47 (Fowler-Magerl) fragments, all but the first beginning with "et alibi".

Kerner et al., Textidentifikation, 35-37 showed that two erroneous inscriptions in Burchard's Liber decretorum can be explained by the use of this florilegium.

Fowler-Magerl pointed out that the florilegium drew on the C+P transmission of the letters of Gregory (on which see Collectio Pauli), and (like C+P itself) its "circulation was limited for the most part to northern France and Lorraine and neighboring regions" (239)

Literature

• Fowler-Magerl, Use of Gregory, 35-39
• Kerner et al., Textidentifikation, 238-240