The South Italian Collection In Five Books And Its Derivatives: A South Italian Appendix To The Collection In Seventy-Four Titles *

IT is perhaps surprising that Beneventan-script codices, which were the primary vehicle for the south Italian Collection in Five Books and its derivatives, should also be a vehicle for one of the earliest and most popular collections of the Gregorian reform period, the Collection in Seventy-Four Titles. Indeed, four of the codices of this collection are written in Beneventan script. 1 In past research on canonical collections there has been a tendency to separate “papally-oriented” collections from others, especially those with monastic features. 2 Although scholars have been aware of the fact that several of these early manuscripts of the “papal” Collection in Seventy-Four Titles 3 were in Beneventan script, they have ignored the fact that Beneventan script was primarily a monastic one. 4 This is one indication that the connection between papally sponsored reform movements and monasteries was much closer than one might think. In fact, in recent historical, liturgical, and artistic scholarship the connections between Montecassino itself, Rome, and the papacy have been shown to be close indeed. John Cowdrey has stressed the relation between Gregory VII and Montecassino. 5 Numerous monks of the abbey were cardinals, and two popes of the period had been monks there, Victor III and Gelasius II. Under the former, the abbot Desiderius, Beneventan script reached its classical apogee. 6 On the liturgical side Richard Gyug has made the important discovery that the famous Casinese manuscript of the Pontificate Romano-Germanicum, Montecassino, Archivio dell’Abbazia 451, was an exemplar used to make the first “Roman” pontifical, the Pontificate Roma-num XII saeculi, of the Desiderian pontifical, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Barb. lat. 631. 7 And art historians are now discovering the impact the architecture, decoration, and fresco painting of Montecassino had in Rome in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. 8 Hence, it is perhaps not unexpected that papal reforming measures epitomized in the Collection in Seventy-Four Titles were written in the Beneventan script of south Italian monasteries.

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