| LC control no. | no2021069724 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Collectio Avellana |
| Variant(s) | Avellana collectio |
| Beginning date | 05 |
| Found in | The Collectio Avellana and its revivals, 2019: title page (Collectio Avellana) page viii (Collectio Avellana; CA; one of the canonical collections most cited by scholars of Late Antiquity; it contains imperial rescripts, reports of urban prefects, letters of bishops, and exchanges of letters between popes and emperors) New Catholic encyclopedia. Second edition, 2003: volume 1, page 931 (Avellana collectio; a canonical collection of the letters of emperors and popes, beginning with a rescript of Valentinian I, dated 368, and ending with a letter of Pope Vigilius to Justinian, dated May 14, 553; evidence available indicates that the collection was prepared shortly after A.D. 553) Religion, dynasty, and patronage in early Christian Rome, 300-900, 2007: page 59, etc. (Collectio Avellana) English Wikipedia, viewed June 10, 2021 (Collectio Avellana; the "Avellana compilation"; it is a collection of 244 documents, dating from AD 367 to 553, that includes many imperial letters written to popes and others, imperial acts and papal letters and other documents that were gathered just after the mid-6th century. Many of the documents have not been preserved in any other collection. Contemporary copies have not survived; the oldest and best manuscript is in the Vatican Library, Vat. lat. 3787 (XI); this is the text that was edited by Otto Gùˆnther in 1895) |
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