Collectio canonum I in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283
| Title | Collectio canonum I in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283 |
|---|---|
| Key | FE01 |
| Size | small (100 to 500 canons) |
| Century | saec. XII |
| European region of origin | Northern France |
| Author | Linda Fowler-Magerl |
| Author | Christof Rolker |
| Structure | farrago |
| No. of manuscripts | one |
Paris, BnF, lat. 4283 is a composite manuscript. The first quaternio is the missing first quire of Troyes, BM, 1386, a copy of the Liber decretorum. The rest of BnF lat. 4283 is a miscellany of three small collections. The first of them (Collectio canonum I in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283) is found on fols. 9-57.
Contents of the collection
The first two pieces on on fol. 9r (image) seem not to belong to the collection proper: the first decree of the council held in 1108 at Benevento by pope Paschal II (inc. Ex divinis preceptis; also found elsewhere e.g. CA07.112), and a letter of Paschal to Raoul, archbishop of Reims, written between 1113–1115 regarding an episcopal election at Cambrai (inc. Tribulationibus et calamitatibus; JL -). Note that Ex divinis preceptis seems to be attributed to Pope Paschal I rather than Paschal II here (S. Paschalis pape). Fransen p. 171 treats the two texts as the first piece of his "part B"; Brommer does not mention them. Blumenthal, Paschal II reports BnF lat. 4283 as the only textual witness of Tribulationibus et calamitatibus.
The collection proper begins after a change of hand with Sententiae sanctorum patrum (fol. 9r-11r). Brommer, who described fol. 1-48 as but one collection, identified the Sententiae as excerpts from 74T similiar to those in Stuttgart, WLB, HB.VI.107 and Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.j.q. 2.
The next section (fol. 11-48) are excerpts from Burchard. They begin with a capitulatio (41 numbered entries, in two colums) under the heading Liber primus. Brommer identified the Burchard material on fol. 11-47. The sectios ends fol. 48r (sic) with Explicit liber XVI. Fransen p. 171 treated fol. 11-48 as a separate work ("Abrégé des seize premiers livres du Décret de Burchard de Worms"), while Brommer assumed all materials on fol. 1-47 were part of one and the same collection.
The section ends with the confession of Berengar of Tours in 1059 and the forgery attributed to Gregory I, Quam sit necessarium (JE †1366).
Note that only the non-Burchardian material was entered into the Clavis canonum database.
The Burchardian material
| Canon | fol. | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| BU01.021 | f. 8r | No rubric. Long version in family C and D (similar to Collectio Barberiniana): Cur non videtur, cur non perpenditur [...] fiat hęreticus ordinatur. Et item. Quisquis contra hanc simoniacam [...] tantummodo inaniter concupiscit. |
| BU01.023 | f. 8v | [...] apostoli Petri fuit detestatione percussus. |
Literature
See Gérard Fransen, Collections canoniques dans le manuscrit 4283 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, in: Liber Amicorum Monseigneur Onclin (Gembloux 1976), pp. 169–197. Fransen edits both texts of pope Paschal II in part B (p. 172 f) and other unidentified texts. For other uses of the canon of the council of Benevento in canon law collections see Blumenthal, Decrees and decretals, p. 27 n. 59. – Bruce Brasington, A Note on Two Panormia-Derivative Collections, BMCL 22 (1998), pp. 14 f. Brasington found in the second section of part C series of excerpts from the Liber decretorum of Burchard in the same sequence as those in the prologue to the Panormia of Ivo of Chartres. – For the transmission of the canons of the council of Reims (1119) see Robert Somerville, The Councils of Pope Calixtus II: Reims 1119, , in: Proceedings of the 5th ICMCL, pp. 35–50. Idem, The councils of Pope Calixtus II and the Collection in Ten Parts, BMCL 11 (1981), pp. 80–86. – The letter of Peter Damian to pope Alexander II is edited by Kurt Reindel, Die Briefe des Petrus Damiani 3 Nr. 140 (MGH, Die Briefe der deutschen Kaiserzeit 4, 3, Munich 1989), pp. 478–487. – Kéry, Collections p. 147. - Fowler-Magerl, Clavis canonum pp. 203-204.
