Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. Lat. 1564
Repository:
Vatikan (Vatican City State)Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Pal. Lat. 1564
Digital image available at UB Heidelberg BAV
Note(s):
The beginning of the Vatican codex is now lost, but can be
reconstructed because Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 105 Gud.
Lat. and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, 10615-729 are based on this manuscript. For
further information on the Brussels codex, which dates from the 12th
century (Trier or Luttich area), cf. Kaiser 2013 pp. 282 and 285 as well as
the comprehensive description in the dissertation by Annastina
Kaffarnik (Ed.), Querela magistri Treverensis. Neuedition,
Übersetzung und Kommentar. Mit einer Beschreibung der Handschrift
Bruxelles, BR 10615-729 (Lateinische Sprache and Literatur des
Mittelalters 46), Bern / Berlin / Brüssel etc. 2011, pp.
315-353. The agrimensorian contents are on foll. 36ra-55va.
In the codices mixti, which were based on the Vatican codex and the
first part of Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf.
36.23 Aug. 2° (Codex Arcerianus A),
also CTh 2,26 and PS 5,22,2 are mentioned. These are Florence,
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 29.32 and Erfurt,
Wissenschaftliche Allgemeinbibliothek, Ampl. 4° 326. The
Florentine codex accrued in West Germany during the 1st third of the 9th century. The Erfurt codex dates from
the 11th to
12th century and was written in Germany. On the codices mixti
cf. Kaiser 2013 pp. 279-287, 292, 299-301,
304, 307, 311, 314 (n. 251) and Bischoff 1998 p. 259 (Florence). Otto von Heinemann, Die Augusteischen Handschriften. 5. Cod.Guelf.
34.1 Aug. 4º to 117 Aug. 4º. Nachdr. der Ausg. 1903 (Kataloge der Herzog
August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Neue Reihe, Bd. 8), Frankfurt am Main
1966 describes Codex Arcerianus A and a digital image can be accessed
via the Herzog August Bibliothek . See Kaiser
2013 pp. 275 (n. 3), 276-279, 281-284, 286 (n. 86), 287, 289,
293-294, 296, 298 (n. 161), 310-314, 315 (n. 252), 316-317,
334 and CLA IX no. 1374b. Codex
London, British Library, Add. 47679 also belongs to the
codices mixti, but does not contain any legal texts. Cf. Kaiser 2013 pp. 280-281, 307,
310-313.
History:
Origin:
10th century (Meyer); 2nd to 3rd third of the 9th century,
circle of Aachen court (Kaiser); 2nd quarter of the 9th century,
Lower
Rhine (Lotharingia?) (Bischoff)
Provenance:
Fulda (Meyer)
Contents:
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9r - 149v
Agrimensores
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9r
Codex Theodosianus (fragment of CTh 2,26,5)
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9r
excerpt from the Pauli sententiae (5,22,2)
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10r - 11r
Leges novellae (Nov. Theod. 24, 4, 20; Sylloge primaria; two edited intensely)
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11r, 124r - 126v
title "Finium regandorum" of the Digest (10,1)
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147v - 149r
Isidore, Etymologiae (book XV)
