Collectio canonum in Oxford, Bodley 561
| Title | Collectio canonum in Oxford, Bodley 561 |
|---|---|
| Key | - |
| Alternative title | Bodley Collection |
| Century | saec. XIIin |
| European region of origin | England |
| Main author | Martin Brett |
| No. of manuscripts | one |
The collection is extant on in fragmentary form in one copy, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 561, namely in the first part (saec. XII1/2) of this composite manuscript.
On fol. 2r-6v, Ivo's preface is found, ending with a capitulatio (possibly incomplete) referring to thirteen partes:
- Prima pars de fide et eius sacramento
- Secunda de baptismo
- Tercia de sacramentis
- Quarta de apostolica dignitate et Romane ecclesie
- Quinta de ecclesia et eius dignitate et causis
- Sexta de eligendis et ordinandis episcopis et eorum causis
- Septima de clericis et eorum causis
- Octava de abbatibus et monachis et eorum causis
- Nona de abbatissa et sanctimonialibus et eorum causis
- Decima de coniugiis
- Undecima de incesta copulatione
- Duodecima de diversis criminibus
- Terciadecima de penitentia
The capitulatio resembles that to the Collectio Tripartita.
The Bodley collection proper is divided into two parts, with a blank, unnumbered leaf after fol. 34. The first part of collection runs up to fol. 34v and is clearly incomplete; the last section corresponds with Part VIII of the preface. About half the material in the Bodley collection is taken from Part B of the Collectio Tripartita; almost all the remainder comes from the Collectio Lanfranci. Only seven texts of the collection are not found in either Tripartita B or the Collectio Lanfranci. The second part of the collection fills fol. 35r-60v. It begins with the Decretum Gelasianum in the form found in the Collectio Lanfranci, followed by a copy of the last and longest section of the Tripartita (B29, cc. 8-283A). Both parts of the Bodley collection are based on the first version of the Tripartita. That the second part ends with B29 c. 283A in mid-leaf suggests that c. 284 (one of the four Tripartita texts not found in Ivo's Decretum) may indeed be an early addition, as already Fournier suspected, even if all other reported manuscripts contain it.
Literature
Brett, Collectio Lanfranci pp. 157-165, 172-174; Kéry, Collections p. 294
