Vienna Hispana Codex

The Vienna Hispana Codex was presumably written in eastern France near the Rhineland, judging by the script. This canon manuscript is textually aligned to that written in 788 for Bishop Rachio of Strasbourg and lost by fire in 1870 (C.L.A., VI. 835). As such, it has been an early and important source for similar texts and for historians interested in the medieval church. An additional indicator of its age is the beautiful Carolingian Miniscule in which it was written. Bound in 1527 at the expense of Johannes Marquardus (cf. fol. I). It bore the number 281 in the Ambras collection which was incorporated in the Vienna Palatine Library in 1665.

The Content

Fol. 1r–202v:
Canones Conciliorum, usque ad Concilium Hispalense secundum
Fol. 202v–312v:
Decretalia Pontificum usque ad Hormisdam, Virgilium et Gregorium
Fol. 312v–313v:
De valore numerico literarum graecarum