Letter 55: CoU.: B fol. 31''; C, fol.

[The source text for this letter consists almost entirely of the modern editor's critical apparatus and notes rather than a transmitted letter-body; the legible Latin is rendered below. The genuine letter is addressed to Armentarius, master of soldiers.] Manuscript witnesses: B, folio 31'; C, folio 4'; C, folio [...]; C, folio 2'; C, folio 8; C, folio [...]; folio 79; 11,1; D, folio 181; Pa, folio 52; folio 93 (added in the apparatus). "master of soldiers"] B reads "to the defender"; Pelagius the pope inserted this into the letter sent to Armentarius the count (in place of the title). 1-2 "among other things"] omitted by B, Ca, Ps. 2 "he knows... that"] B omits; CD P read "after which"; C (except C) [reads otherwise]. 3 "they shall have been"] C reads "they are" (except C). 4 "in no way"] Pg; "of descending from these" P. 5 "let him permit them to have, license to have"] (compare letters 64, 1, lines 34-35, and 87, lines 7 and 16) C P P; Ca reads "let license to have be permitted" ("let him permit" appears to have been added afterward, after the full stop, partly in the margin) B; 2 adds "from the same seventh book of the Code of Justinian, VII, 43, [the words]: that the measures which are established against persons who are absent - not, that is, through contumacy, by no means summoned according to custom by the regular notices - do not obtain the force of an adjudicated matter, is certain" (and what follows above, noted at line 1) P. Title: "To Armentarius, master of soldiers": A man otherwise unknown, to whom the rank of "illustrious" and the dignity belonged, whether by reason of that very mastership of soldiers (held in a supernumerary capacity) - which seems the more likely - (compare letter 65,1 and the small notes on letter 29,1, pages 171 and 84) - or else for some other reason (compare letter 70,1, and the small notes on the title of letter 69, page 178). Compare the annotations on letters 20,1; 22,2; 53,5, and E. Stein, Histoire..., pages 432-433, note 11. The title in the Collectio Britannica is a manifest error. Compare P. Ewald, work cited, place cited, page 551, note 8. As regards the mastership of soldiers, compare the small notes on letter 29,1 and on the title of letter 31, page 87. "let it be permitted": The matters attributed to Pelagius in the letter sent to Armentarius the count I found in the Parisian manuscript, National Library, Latin 3882 (Pg), folio 93, and I have relegated them to the apparatus. For it is hardly likely that the pope cited such things in this letter. Indeed, as is already established in the manuscript, it is a question of a little fragment of the Code of Justinian, VII <43,7>, which is placed after two others (ibid., VII, 43, 2 and 5) marked under the name of Leo I, and which I have been unable to find in the letters of that same pontiff to Marcian, where they ought to be present according to the inscriptions of the manuscript. The same thing happens with respect to the last little fragment, which follows ours (ibid., VII, 43, 10), inserted, as it is said in the manuscript, into a letter of Gelasius to Anastasius. It remains for me to note the obsolete reasoning by which those fragments are assigned to the aforesaid pontiffs in the manuscript praised above: <Code of Justinian, VII, 43, 2> (E): From the seventh book of the Code of Justinian. "The cause also having ceased... after... it is certain that it is done": this was inserted into the letter of Pope Leo to Marcian. <Code of Justinian, VII, 43, 5> (D): From the same. "If, as you propose... it is by no means fitting": this was inserted into the second letter of the same. <Code of Justinian, VII, 43, 7> (the present one): From the same. "The things which are established... it is certain": this Pope Pelagius inserted into the letter sent to Armentarius the count. <Code of Justinian, VII, 43, 10> (P): From the same. "Since the reasoning of the law does not permit [a thing] not of one's own will": this Gelasius inserted into the letter to Anastasius. 10. - page [...] Of Pelagius I, pope. [Summary heading for the following letter] LETTER 56, 1-2: Bishop Tullianus had asked the pontiff whether Latinus, the Grumentine deacon, was acceptable to him - the man who had obtained the votes of the electors of the church of Marcellianum, in [the territory of] Consilinum. Pelagius both confirms the election and asks the bishop that, with letters of dismissal granted, he send him to Rome so that he may consecrate him at the paschal vigil.

CoU.: B fol. 31''; C, fol. 4'', C, fol. C, fol. 2’ C,*" fol. 8/ct fol. fol. 79; 11,1 Di fol, 181; Pa fol- 52^^, fol, 93^: (addita in apparatu)]. ^ magistro militum] defensori B, hoc inseruit pelagius papa in epla. missa ar¬ mentario comiti (pro titulo) 1-2 inter cetera] om. B Ca^Ps^ 2 scit... quia] Bi om. CD P^ post quam C (excepto C^) 3 fuerint] sunt C (excepto C^) 4 nulla- thenus Pg hiis descendendi P, 5 abere permittat, hab. licent.] (cf. epp, 64, l, 34-35 et 87, 1.7 et 16) C P P, [permitat.] Ca^: hab. licent, permitatur ('permitat. add. postea vid., post punctum, partim in marg.) B 2, add. (e)x (e parv. pro init, litt.) eodem (septimo libro codicis iustiniani \yil, 43^) ea que statuuntur aduersus absentes non per contumaciam scilicet denunciacionibus nequaquam ex more conuentos iudi- cate rei firmitatem non optinere certum est (et seq. supra not. in 1) P^. Tit. Armentario magistro militum: Vir aliunde ignotus, cui, sive ratione ipsius magisterii militum (vacantis) — quod veri similius videtur (cf. ep. 65,1 et notulas in ep. 29,1, p. 171 et 84) — sive et alia ratione (cf. ep. 70,1, et notulas in titulum ep. 69, p. 178) inlustris titulus et gloria con¬ gruebat. Cf. adnotationes in epp. 20,1; 22,2; 53,5 et E. Stein, Histoire ..., p. 432-433, n. 11. Titulus Coli. Britannicae est mendum manifestum. Cf. P. Ewaed, 0 . c., l. c., p. 551, n. 8. Quoad magisterium militum cf. notulas in ep. 29,1 et in titulum ep. 31, p. 87. permittatur: Quae Pelagio adtributa in epistola missa Armen¬ tario comiti, inveni in cod. Parisino Bihl. Nat. lat. 3882 (Pg), fol. 93^, in apparatum relegavi. Parum enim veri simile est talia adlegasse papam in his litteris. Re quidem vera, ut in cod. iam constat, agitur de fragmen- tulo Cod. Justiniani, VII <43,7>, quod ponitur post duo alia (Ihid., VII, 43, 2.5.) nomine Eeonis I insignita, quaeque invenire nescivi in epistulis ad Marcianum eiusdem pontificis, ubi adesse deberent iuxta cod. inscrip- EPISTXJIvA 55 tiones. Idem accidit quoad fragmentulum ultimum, quod nostrum seqmtur [Ihid., VII, 43, 10) insertum, prout in cod. dicitur, in epistulam (^lasii ad Anastashun. Restat ut notem obsoletam rationem qua illa fragmenta prae¬ dictis pontificibus adsignentur in supra laudato cod.: <Cod. lust., VII, 43,2> (E) x septimo libro codicis iustiniani Cessante quoque causa. .. post se fieri certu(m) est hoc insertu fuit in epla leonis ppe ad marcianu <Cod. lust., VII, 43,5> (D) e eodem si ut proponis. .. minime opportet hoc insertu fuit in secuda epa eiusdem <Cod. lust., VII, 43,7> (^) ^ eodem ea quae statuuntur.. .. cer tum est hoc inseruit pelagius ppa in epla missa armentario comiti <Cod. lust., VII, 43 ,10> P) e eodem cum non uoluntat(is) . iuiis ratio non p(er)mitit hoc inseruit gelasi^ in epa ad anastasiu 10. — p. PEI.AGII I papae EPISTUI,A 56,1-2 Tullianus episcopus quaesierat a pontifice utrum acceptus ei esset Latinus diaconus Grumentinus, qui suffragia electorum ecclesiae Marce- llianensis, Consilini, sortitus erat. Pelagius et electionem confirmat et rogat episcopo, ut, datis litteris dimissoriis, Romam mittat ut eum vigi¬ lia paschali consecrare possit.