Collectio IV librorum in Köln, Dombibliothek, 124

Title	Collectio IV librorum in Köln, Dombibliothek, 124
Key	KT
Century	?
Main author	Fowler-Magerl, Linda

The Collectio IV librorum (KT) found in the Ms Cologne, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek 124 survives only in that one late 11th century manuscript. The script is Romanesca which means that the scribe learned his art in central Italy. The collection itself was probably compiled in Lorraine no earlier than the beginning of the 10th century since it makes use of the Liber duo de synodalibus causis of Regino of Prüm (ca. 906). There are, however, insertions in the collection – particularly in the third and fourth books – which were made in Italy. Hubert Mordek brought to the attention of Gerhard Schmitz the fact that the canons taken from the Concordia canonum of Cresconius which are found after the final book of the Collectio IV librorum belong to the Italian tradition of that collection.

There are no book titles, but each book has a capitulatio. In the text itself canons are found at the ends of books 3 and 4 with no numbering and no correspondence in the capitulationes. The first book deals with bishops, their churches and revenues and the accusation of bishops, the second deals with priests, with the accusation of priests, with their churches and with other clerics. The third book deals with those delicts which require penance and those which demand excommunication. The fourth deals with marriage. The canons are not organized systematically within the books. They are, however, as Schmitz remarks, in „thematisch-kohärente“ textual blocks. The sources of the first two books are the Dionysiana, the Dacheriana [69] and a copy of the Liber duo de synodalibus causis of Regino which lacked the appendices. The third and fourth books also make use of Regino and the Dacheriana, the latter in a version with pseudoisidorian additions. These books also contain canons from the council of Auxerre (573/603) and the councils of Worms (868), Mainz (888) and Tribur (895). They also contain capitula from capitularies: from the Collectio capitularium of Ansegis, from the Capitula ecclesiastica and Capitula legibus addenda and from the Admonitio generalis of 789.

Following the sixtieth and last canon of the fourth book is material also found in the Pittaciolus of Hincmar of Laon (869) and the material collection in the Ms Berlin, SBPK Phillipps 1764. The presence of this material in the Cologne manuscript is evidence of the particularly close relationship between Lorraine and Reims, many other examples of which could be given. Excerpts from De raptoribus of Hincmar of Reims follow. The end of the manuscript contains longer excerpts from letters of pope Gregory I and a listing of 90 heresies taken from the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. A number of the canons excerpted from letters of pope Gregory are taken from the C + P transmission of those letters, which was available in the region of Cologne in the 9th century. Finally there are extensive excerpts from the Concordia canonum of Cresconius.

Eleven of the canons in the Collectio IV librorum were used in the late 10th century Lotharingian manuscript Munich, StB Clm 3853 (fol. 41r–43v); sixteen were used for the 11th century Ms Vatican, Archivio di San Pietro H. 58 (fol. 117r–118r).

Literature

The most complete description is made by Schmitz, Die Vier-Bücher-Sammlung, pp. 233–255. For additional information on the sources see Hoffmann – Pokorny, Das Dekret, pp. 70–76. Also Rudolf Pokorny, Die drei Versionen der Triburer Synodalakten von 895, DA 48 (1992), pp. 429–511. Idem, Reichsbischof, Kirchenrecht und Diözesanverwaltung um das Jahr 1000, in: Bernward von Hildesheim und das Zeitalter der Ottonen. Katalog der Ausstellung Hildesheim 1993, ed. by Michael Brandt and Arne Eggebrecht 1 (Hildesheim/Mainz 1993), pp. 113–119, here 117. Also Zechiel-Eckes, The Concordia canonum, pp. 250–254 and 296. On the C + P collection of letters of pope Gregory I see Linda Fowler-Magerl, The Use of the Letters of Pope Gregory I in Northeastern France and Lorraine before 1100, in: „Ins Wasser geworfen und Ozeane durchquert“: Festschrift für Knut Wolfgang Nörr, ed. by Mario Ascheri, a. o., Köln 2003, pp. 237– 259. – Kéry, Collections p. 189. For the Ms Vatican, Archivio di San [70] Pietro H.58 see Ludger Körntgen, Ein italienisches Bußbuch und seine fränkischen Quellen. Das anonyme Paenitentiale der Handschrift Vatikan, Arch. S. Pietro H.58, in: Aus Archiven und Bibliotheken: Festschrift für Raymund Kottje zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. by Hubert Mordek (Freiburger Beiträge zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte 3, 1992, pp. 189–197, here p. 190.

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