Florus of Lyon

Title	Florus of Lyon
Key	FO
Size	Very small (less than 100 canons)
Terminus ante quem	860
Century	saec. IX
Place of origin	Lyon
European region of origin	Southern France
General region of origin	Southern Europe and Mediterranean
Main author	Linda Fowler-Magerl

In the mid 9th century Florus of Lyon combined texts from the Constitutiones Sirmondianae with canons from the council of Carthage. This brief collection is transmitted in the Ms Troyes, BM, 1406 (late 9th century, Burgundy), fol. 14v–16v. The collection of Florus begins with the end of the sixth of the Constitutiones Sirmondianae, which deals with the coertion of Jews, and ends with a constitution dealing with their baptism. The other constitutions in the collection deal with procedural law. Luc D’Achery identified and edited a version of this collection in a manuscript from Auxerre, now lost. In this manuscript was a commentary of Florus to one of the texts in the collection. The collection was attributed there explicitly to Florus: Haec a domno Floro viro prudenti collecta sunt ex lege et canone. The title in the Auxerre manuscript: De coertione Iudeorum et de auctoritate ac firmitate iudicii et testimonii episcoporum. Friedrich Maassen recognized a further, apparently incomplete version of the collection together with commentaries of Florus in the second book of the first Collectio II librorum, on folios 51r–52v of the 9th century Ms Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.

Recently Klaus Zechiel-Eckes identified other parts of the commentary in the Milan manuscript and edited the complete text. He established that Florus used the 7th century copy of the Constitutiones now in Berlin although he manipulated the texts somewhat. On the basis of this more complete version of the commentary it is apparent [58] that Florus was attacking Modoin, bishop of Autun, who, in the secular capacity of an imperial missus was acting as judge in Lyon. The present analysis of the commentary of Florus (FO) is based on the analysis of Zechiel-Eckes. The texts in the Auxerre manuscript are noted in the location column.

Literature

The collection in the Auxerre manuscript was edited by Luc d’Achery, Spicilegium veterum aliquot scriptorum qui in Galliae Bibliothecis, maxime Benedictinorum latuerant 12, Paris 1675, pp. 48–53 (second edition by Louis-F.-J. de La Barre, Spicilegium 1, Paris 1723, pp. 597–599 = Migne PL 119. 419–422). Part of the commentary in the Milan manuscript was edited by Friedrich Maassen, Ein Commentar des Florus von Lyon zu einigen der sogenannten Sirmond’schen Constitutionen, SB Vienna 92 (1878), p. 303. See also B. Blumenkranz, Deux compilations canoniques de Florus de Lyon et láction antijuive d’Agobard, RHD 4e séries 33 (1955), pp. 227–254 and 560–582. For the complete edition see Klaus Zechiel-Eckes, Sur la tradition manuscrite des Capitula … de coertione Iudeorum, Revue Bénédictine 107 (1997) pp. 77–87, Idem, Florus von Lyon als Kirchenpolitiker und Publizist (Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittelalter 8, Stuttgart 1999), p. 5 n. 9. See also Kéry, Collections p. 171–172.

On the Ms Troyes, BM 1064 see Abigail Firey, The Canon Law Book of Jerome, Bischof of Belley, A.D. 933 (MS. Troyes, BM, 1064), Revue Bénédictine 107 (1997), pp. 88–129. Also Rudolf Pokorny, Ein unerkanntes [59] Brieffragment Argrims von Lyon-Langres aus den Jahren 894/95 und zwei umstrittene Bischofsweihen in der Kirchenprovinz Lyon, in: Francia 13 (1985) 602– 622. Idem, Eine bischöfliche Promissio aus Belley und die Datierung des Vereinigungs-Vertrages von Hoch- und Niederburgund (933?), DA 43 (1987), p. 55 and n. 34.

The collections of Roman and canon law associated with Lyon are now the subject of a research project entitled Traditio iuris. Etudes sur les manuscrits juridiques du haut Moyen Age (VIe–XIe siècles) at the Centre d’Études Romanistiques d’Auvergne at the University of Auvergne.

See https://www.geschichtsquellen.de/werk/2274

Categories

• key is FO
• Clavis entries based on modern edition
• very small collection
• from Southern Gaul / Lyon
• saec. IX