Roma, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, ms 41 E 1

Library	Roma, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Shelfmark	ms 41 E 1
Olim shelfmark	Corsini 1808
Century	saec. XII
Provenance	?
European region of origin	England
Collection	Ivo of Chartres, Decretum
Digital Images	not online as of early 2025
Description at	The Ivo of Chartres project
Author	Martin Brett

Roma, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Corsini 41 E 1 (Corsini 1808) contains the Harley abbreviation of Ivo's Decretum.

The manuscript has been attributed to an English scriptorium of the second half of the twelfth century (Gullick).

In the Corsini copy of the Harley Abbreviation, the synodal order and related texts which replace those in the main text of book four of Ivo's Decretum in London, British Library, Harley 3090 (= H in Brett's edition) are at the end. The manuscript has clearly been in Italy since the end of the twelfth century, given the nature of the earliest additions to a long sequence of texts at the end. However, the most recent published analysis of the script proposes that the book was originally Anglo-Norman - Giorgia Corso in A. Cadei (ed.), Il Trionfo sul tempo: Manoscritti illustrati dell' Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Modena 2002, 191-2 no. 80. Michael Gullick (personal communication to Brett) confirms an English origin for the main text hand, and proposes a date after 1150, and more probably late in the century.

In the main text there are a number of marginal additions (incorporated in the capitulatio at the end) and some points where the text, apparently earlier resembling H, has been erased and replaced. The text in the notes below has been roughly checked to the end of the third book, the marginal additions to the main text are noted to the beginning of book five, and the passages in the appendix are listed at the end of book 16.

Links

For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition, see Brett, Decretum.

Literature

Kéry, Collections p. 252 (as "Corsin. 1808")