München, BSB, Clm 6241
| Library | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | Clm 6241 |
| Century | s. X⅔-ex |
| General region of origin | Freising |
| Collection | Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana |
| Collection 2 | Pseudo-Remedius of Chur, Collectio canonum |
| Collection 3 | Epitome Hispana |
| Collection 4 | Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) |
| Main author | Bruno Schalekamp |
| Main author | Christof Rolker |
| Main author | Clemens Radl |
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6241 is a late tenth-century manuscript of 141 folios in 1 col. (305 x 205 mm) and made of parchment. Its codicological composition reads as follows: 18 or 19 quires: IV8 + (IV – 1)15 + 3 x IV39; restored quires: (IV – 1)46 + IV54 + (IV – 4)58 + 4 x IV90 + (IV + 1)98 + 2 x IV114 + III120 + 2 x IV136 + ?142; quire signatures start at I8 until XVIII136, no signatures hereafter. Modern folio numbering in Arabic numerals are found on the recto side of each folio in a modern hand and penned with lead pencil. It was written by two or three hands in Caroline minuscule either in saec. Xex according to its catalogue and Reynolds or saec. X⅔ according to Kéry. The manuscript's origins can be traced to Freising according to its catalogue and Hoffman/Pokorny, and its provenance is from the Cathedral Chapter of Freising based on a signature on fol. 1r, which reads: liber frisingensis sanctę marię sanctique corbinia[ni]. The contents of the first part (fols. 1-39) were later used for Clm 3852/II, while the second part (fols. 40-141) depends on Clm 6245 according to Glauche.
Contents
München Clm 6241 is a medium-sized codex and contains almost exclusively canonical material, with some small relevant encyclopedic additions of Isidore de Seville's work and a short work on penance. The known canonical material is dominated by both the abbreviated Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana and Pseudo-Remedius of Chur, Collectio canonum. Other canonical works include excerpts of the Epitome Hispana and the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii). However, most importantly, the manuscript contains a large unknown canonical collection (fols. 40r-104v), in which the last mentioned collectio was included. The unknown collection has yet to be studied. The codex's penitential material includes the Paenitentiale Theodori. The rest of the handwritten work is made up of various capitularies (such as the Frisingensia and 'for the Jews'), epistles, decretals, excerpts of various works (Regino of Prüm), a priest's oath, an homiliary, Leo III's oath of purification for Charlemagne, and various canons of a multitude of councils. It furthermore includes a substantial corpus of unidentified works, which preliminarily can be said to be relevant to canon law.
The codex has been preserved relatively well and was made of high quality parchment. While it is not the most decorative work apart from the first folio, it contains clear red rubrics introducing each segment of text, and was well mapped out for the writing process. The manuscript contains only few marginalia, mostly explanatory, some of which were made in distinct dark ink that pierced each folio. Nor were many corrections made. The work, therefore, give the impression to have been relatively 'untouched' and seems to have been tucked away from prying eyes.
The contents of the work make one wonder about the intention of its creation. The included texts strike as rather specific and should not be considered 'general works'. Rather, I believe, this collection of texts was meant for a bishop and his entourage who hand-picked 'a bit of everything' instead of only one or more established collections. Their interest, therefore, seems to have been focused on a highly refined idea of what canon law and all its related source material entails. A study of the unknown canonical collection might shed more light on the context and compilation of this codex.
See the digitized version: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb00078562.
| folios | texts |
|---|---|
| Front cover | |
| Ir | Blank page. Some notes included, which might have been probationes pennae |
| 1v-31v | Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana abbreviata. Opens with the Canones apostolorum, ends with various papal decretals |
| 31-33v | Epitome Hispana with additions |
| 33v-35r | Paenitentiale Theodori |
| 35r-38r | Capitula Frisingensia |
| 38r-v | Glossary of the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana |
| 38v-39r | Short excerpt of a work on numbers |
| 39v | Blank page |
| 40r-104v | Unknown canonical collection, including: |
| 40r-51v | Epistula Rabani Magonciacensis archiepiscopi cum coepiscopis suis ad Ludouuicum regem |
| 51v-77v | Epistola Triburiensis concilii |
| 77v-82r | Epistula Nicholai papae ad Karolum Magontiacensem archiepiscopum et ad eius suffraganeos tam episcopos quam abbates |
| 82r-85r | Various canons of councils and papal decretals, including: |
| 82r-v | Canon 15 of the council of Rome (742 or 745) organised by pope Zachary |
| 82v | Epistle of pope Gregory the Great to Boniface |
| 82v-83r | In constitutis Gregorii papae |
| 83r | Excerpt of Isidore de Seville’s Etymologiae, titled De agnatis et cognatis. Here mentioned as book 7, chapter 30, which is in fact book 9, chapter 7 |
| 83r-84r | Fabiani urbis Romae episcopi de crismate |
| 84r | Canon 13 of the third council of Orléans (538) and canon eight of the Capitulary of Worms (829) |
| 84r-85r | De non inuadendis ęcclesiae rebus capitula Lucii episcopi |
| 85r-87r | Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), chapters I-II, X-XI, XIIII, XVII, XVIII, XXII, and XXVIII |
| 87r | De administratoribus legis |
| 87r-v | Epistle of pope Innocentius |
| 87v-90v | Capitulary for the Jews |
| 90v | De recipienda uxore in captiuitatem adducta |
| 90v-92r | Excerptum super istud capitulum de libro Będę presbiteri |
| 92r-v | Excerpt of decretal by pope Vigilius |
| 92v-93v | Excerpt of the council of Meaux-Paris (845/846) |
| 93v | Canon 15 of the first council of Orléans (511) |
| 93v-94r | Excerpt of a council of Toledo, including canon 15 |
| 94r-v | Excerpt of the council of Elvira (305/306). Also two unidentified texts, titled De tricennali prescriptione Gelasii papę and De his qui presbiteros fatigare presumunt |
| 95r-v | A few unidentified texts, titled De terminis minime transferendis, De compositione ministrorum ęcclesiae, De compositione presbyterorum uel diaconorum, Pro qua causa uxor ducatur, and De electione mariti et uxoris |
| 95ar | Capitulary of Ver (884), canon 8, and Council of Meaux-Paris (845/846), canon 56 |
| 95av | Blank leaflet |
| 96r-99r | Homiliary, the Admonitio synodalis, (allegedly) by pope Leo IV. According to Reynolds, folios 97r-100r are a ‘Leonine’ sermon |
| 99r-v | Priests’ oath. Titled, in Latin, De sacramento episcopis qui ordinandi sunt ab eis. Contents written in Old High German of which the first words read Daz ih dir hold pin N. demo piscophe... |
| 99v-100r | The oath of purification of pope Leo III for Charlemagne |
| 100r-v | Regino of Prüm's De synodalibus causis, book 2, chapters 232 and 231 |
| 100v-101r | Council of Agde (506), allegedly canon 73. Also includes an unidentified text, titled De his qui peccata penitere nolunt |
| 101r-v | Unidentified text, titled Quod episcopus presbiter et diaconus peccantes fideles uerberare debeant. Also includes chapter 3 of Require in libro secundo de uita sancti Martini |
| 101v-102v | Council of Ancyra (314), canon 33 |
| 102v | Regino of Prüm's De synodalis causis, book 2, chapter 143 |
| 102v-103r | De discretione periuriorum apud XXV |
| 103r-v | Magonciacensi concilio and De eo si quis liber aliquo crimine infamatur caput XXII Triburiensis concilii |
| 103v-104r | Admonitio de cotidiana et breuissima oratione mane et uespere |
| 104r-v | Two unidentified texts, titled Ut si quam diocesim episcopus ab heresi liberans triennio possederit nullus eam repetat and De sacrilegis |
| 104v-106r | Isidore de Seville's Etymologiae, book 8, chapter 9, sections 9-35 |
| 106v-141r | Pseudo-Remedius of Chur, Collectio canonum |
| 141v | Blank page. Some notes included, which might have been probationes pennae |
| Back cover |
Literature
Glauche, Die Pergamenthandschriften (2000), p. 60-66; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 59, 76, 81, 184-185; Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium (1995), p. 319-321; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform (1975), p. 259; Reynolds, Law and Liturgy (1994), p. 511.
An edition of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) is currently being prepared by Sven Meeder, Gideon de Jong, and Bruno Schalekamp.
