Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 5845
Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 5845, written in Southern Italy in the tenth century contains a variety of canon law materials. It is probably best known as one of only two medieval copies of the Dionysiana including the Liber decretorum Dionysii.
According to Lowe, Beneventan script pp. 53-54. the codex was written in Capua by monks from Montecassino who had fled there. Mordek, Kirchenrecht p. 59 n. 94, the codex was written between 915 and 934 at Capua. Mirabile mixes both accounts.
According to the Bertram/Dolezalek catalogue, it is an imperfect and expanded version of the Collectio Dionysiana II, with many of the additions also found in the Collectio Dionysiana adaucta but others not; some additions found in Vat. lat. 5845 are also found in the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana. The codex is physically incomplete: the first two quires and the outside leaves of the third are missing; what is today fol. 1 begins in the middle of the rubrics to the Canones Apostolorum. Bertram/Dolezalek report more missing folios:
- fol. 1ra-200vb, 202ra-306va, 313ra-327rb <Collectio Dionysiana, recensio 2, imperfecta
et cum additionibus>
Kéry lists the manuscript as a copy of the Dionysiana II (p. 10), the Liber decretorum Dionysii (p. 11), and the Dionysiana adaucta (p. 21). Hoskin treats the manuscript as containing the Dionysiana (p. 151) to which the Dionysiana adaucta was "appended" (p. 301).
Links
- digital images: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.5845/0001
- Bibliography (but no description):
- Bertram/Dolezalek catalogue: https://home.uni-leipzig.de/jurarom/manuscr/VaticanCatalogue/indexvatican.html
- Mirabile description (incomplete and partly confused): https://www.mirabileweb.it/manuscript/città-del-vaticano-biblioteca-apostolica-vaticana--manuscript/25312
Literature
The codex has been used by a number of scholars (Ballerini, Thiel, von Dobschütz, Schwartz, ...).
Maassen, Geschichte pp. 427, 431, 435, 449-451, and 464; Kéry, p. 10-11, 21
