Simone Manfredini

SUMMARY: A fragmentary codex of Priscian’s Institutiones is extant in Piacenza, Archivio Capitolare di S. Antonino, Cass. 49, fr. 47. The Institutiones were copied by eight different scribes working side by side in a scriptorium north of the Alps in the 10th century. The MS margins contain a rich collection of glosses in part written by the same copyists of the text, in part by later hands. The codex apparently reached North Italy, where it was bound with dismembered leaves of a Missal, by the end of the 12th century or thereabouts. The Missal leaves, written in the Po valley, 11th century, show a text descending from the Sacramentarium Gregorianum and extended with formulas taken from the Gelasianum.