Capitula Angilramni

The Capitula Angilramni contains 71 (72) chapters all dealing with criminal accusations against bishops and other clergy. The author is said to be Angilram, bishop of Metz (768–791) and the recipient pope Hadrian I (772–795). The major sources are Roman law in its Visigothic redaction, the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana and the Historia Tripartita of Cassiodorus. The collection is closely related to a further forgery, a Collectio capitularium attributed to a certain Benedictus Levita. Emil Seckel characterized the relationship between the two works as interwoven (verfilzt). Horst Fuhrmann and Gerhard Schmitz agree but reject the implication that they were compiled „parallel nebeneinander“. „Angilram“ used the collection attributed to Benedictus Levita in an early version; the Capitula Angilramni in an unfinished form was used for the fourth Appendix to the Capitula of Benedictus Levita. Both of these collections would be major sources for the pseudoisidorian forgers. The Capitula Angilramni often accompanied the False Decretals. It was edited by Paul Hinschius together with the forged decretals, and the present analysis (AO) is based on that edition. For a new edition, see Capitula Angilramni, ed. Schon (2006).