Collectio IX librorum in San Pietro, C. 118

Title	Collectio IX librorum in San Pietro, C. 118
Key	DS
Size	Very large (more than 2000 canons)
Terminus post quem	1123
Terminus ante quem	1199
Century	saec. XII
European region of origin	Northern Italy
General region of origin	Southern Europe and Mediterranean
Main author	Linda Fowler-Magerl
No. of manuscripts	one

The San Pietro Collection in Nine Books (not to be confused with other Collections in Nine Books) is a revised and augmented version of the Collectio III librorum which contains the decrees of the first Lateran Council of 1123. It was compiled after 1123 perhaps in northern Italy. As was the case in the Collectio III librorum the books were subdivided into titles.

It has survived in two [236] manuscripts: Vatican, Archivio di San Pietro C. 118 and Berlin, SBPK, lat. fol. 522. The Berlin manuscript contains an earlier form of the collection. The Vatican manuscript has canons added to the ends of a number of titles. The Vatican manuscript was used as the basis for the present analysis (DS) because folios are missing in the Ms Berlin between the end of canon 1.3.5 (in the title De dubiis causis ad apostolicam sedem referendis) and canon 5.3.3 (in the title De privilegiis ecclesiarum).

The collection begins with circa 70 canons from the beginning of the collection of Anselm of Lucca, of which the A’ version was used, a later form than that used for the Collectio III librorum. A number of Ambrosian texts cited by Anselm were left out by the compiler. Canons from the Collectio III librorum follow. There are a several titles which are not to be found in the Collectio III librorum (for example: 3.2.1 De fundatoribus vel dedicatoribus ecclesiarum). This is particularly true at the end of the first title of book 8, which deals with marriage and consanguinity. Many of the canons not found in the collection of Anselm are found in the collections Ambrosiana I and II, especially in Ambrosiana II.

Literature

Johanna Petersmann recognized that the Ms Berlin held a copy of the Collectio IX librorum. See Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform, p. 140 n. 197. See Giuseppe Motta, Osservazioni intorno alla collezione canonica in tre libri (MSS C.135 Archivio Capitolare di Pistoia e Vat. lat. 3831), in: Proceedings of the 5th ICMCL, pp. 62–65. See also Peter Landau, Vorgratianische Kanonessammlungen bei den Dekretisten und in frühen Dekretalensammlungen, in: Proceedings of the 8th ICMCL, pp. 93–116. – Kéry, Collections p. 271–272.

Categories

• key is DS
• very large (more than 2000 canons) collection
• from Northern Italy
• saec. XII

DEFAULTSORT "Collectio 009 librorum San Pietro"