Collectio Avellana

Title Collectio Avellana Alternative title Avellanische Sammlung (Maassen) Wikidata Item no. Q782846 Century saec. VI Place of origin Rome European region of origin Central Italy Author Christof Rolker No. of manuscripts some (2–9) There are two high medival copies, Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 3787 and Città del Vaticano, BAV, Vat. lat. 4961 ; Günther demonstrated that the latter depended on the former. There are nine more copies of the 15th and 16th centuries, all depended on the two Vatican manuscripts. The Avellana shares material, and (according to Günther, Avellana-Studien pp. esp. 38-39 ) a common source, with the Collectio Berolinensis . Jasper assumed that some of the rare materials in Anselm's collection "Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (A version)") comes from the Avellana via the Collection in Two books/Eight Parts , but left the question open whether the latter depended on the Avellana directly for acts of the Roman synod of March 13, 495, JK 638 , and the complete form of JK 664 . Otto Günther, Epistulae Imperatorum Pontificum Aliorum inde ab a. CCCLXVII usque ad a. DLIII datae Avellana quae dicitur Collectio, 2 vols (1895); available online here (vol. 1) and here (vol. 2).