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.

Bertram/Dolezalek describe it as an imperfect and expanded version of the Collectio Dionysiana II:

fol. 1ra-200vb, 202ra-306va, 313ra-327rb <Collectio Dionysiana, recensio 2, imperfecta et cum additionibus>

According to them, many of the additions are 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.

Maassen p. 454 did not count Vat. lat. 5845 among the four copies of the Dionysiana adaucta (his "vermehrte Hadriana"). While he refers to it in the discussion of this collection (mainly stressing similarities to Clm 14008), he sees it as a "pure" Dionysiana which was added to with material also added to the Dionysio-Hadriana (pp. 450, 455, 464) Landau, Kanonessammlungen Lombardei pp. 430-431 in his discussion of the Dionysiana adaucta does not mention Vat. lat. 5845 Landau, Gefälschtes Recht p. 19 seems to treat Vat. lat. 5845 as a copy of the Dionysiana II but not the Dionysiana adaucta:

Ferner sind alle Texte der symmachianischen Fälschungen in der Collectio Vaticana (Vat. lat. 1342) überliefert, außerdem in den Codices der sog. Vermehrten Hadriana in der Terminologie Maassens - besser Dionysiana adaucta - und schließlich im Codex Vat. lat. 5845 der Dionysiana in der 2. Redaktion.

Wirbelauer, Zwei Päpste pp. 219-220 describes Vat.lat. 5845 (his V₃) as containing onyl one collection, namely a Dionysiana II, with additions very similiar to those in München, BSB, Clm 14008, his M₂ ("Coll. Dionysiana II mit dem Anhang, der sich nächstverwandt in M₂ findet"). 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 two collections, namely 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): https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Vat.lat.5845
• 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 (Holste, Ballerini, Thiel, von Dobschütz, Schwartz, ...).

Maassen, Geschichte pp. 427, 431, 435, 449-451, and 464; Kéry, p. 10-11, 21