Liber Diurnus

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Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum is the name for a collection of writings of the papal administration in Rome . The collection includes documents from the end of the 5th century to the 11th century.

Content and story

The collection contains around 100 forms for the usual procedures in the chancellery, such as letters, forms for the election , enthronement and burial of the Pope, the procedure for the appointment of bishops, the founding of monasteries and the inauguration of churches , ie documents that concern all areas of church administration. The first documents date from the end of the 5th century, although opinions are divided about the exact date. Major parts of the collection date from the time of Popes Gelasius I (492-496) and Gregory I (590-604). The Liber Diurnus was in use in the papal chancellery until the 11th century. Due to changes and changed requirements of the bureaucracy, the book was no longer needed and was forgotten.

Around 1641 a copy was rediscovered in the monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome by the papal librarian Lucas Holstenius . Holstenius received another copy from the College of the Jesuits in Paris, the Collège de Clermont . However, he was not given permission to publish the texts, since the curia apparently considered individual documents to be unsuitable.

The Paris copy was first published in 1680 by the Jesuit Jean Garnier . The submission of this partly apparently incorrect print edition was partly lost. The Benedictine Jean Mabillon published a supplement to the Garnier edition. A combination of these print editions provided the basis for the Basler Druck of 1741, which Jacques Paul Migne included in his extensive text edition of the Patrologia Latina of 1851 (PL 105.21-186).

Manuscripts

The three manuscripts on which the text editions are based are:

  1. the MS Vaticanus , which was discovered by Lukas Holste in Santa Croce di Gerusalemme in Rome and is now kept in the Vatican Secret Archives (Misc., Arm. XI, 19);
  2. the MS Claromontanus from Paris;
  3. the MS Ambrosianus from the Bobbio abbey in Italy, since 1606 in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (Ambros. I 2 sup.). The manuscript was created on the Reichenau .

expenditure

  • Theodor von Sickel , Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum ex unico codice Vaticano , Vienna 1889.
  • Hans Foerster , Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum , Bern 1958.
  • Il Codice Ambrosiano Del Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum. Per cura di L. Gramatica, E. G. Galbiati. 1921. (Analecta Ambrosiana. 7.) [Facsimile with an introduction].

literature

  • H. Leclerq: Liber diurnus , In: Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie . Volume 9, Letouzey et Ané, Paris 1930, Col. 243-344.
  • Leo Santifaller : Liber Diurnus. Studies and research . Published by Harald Zimmermann. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-7772-7612-X , (Georg Denzler (Hrsg.): Popes and Papacy 10).

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