Sigüenza, Archivo de la Catedral, 61

Library	Sigüenza, Archivo de la Catedral
Shelfmark	61
Century	saec. XIII
European region of origin	unknown
Collection	Ivo of Chartres, Decretum
Description at	The Ivo of Chartres project
Main author	Martin Brett

Sigüenza, Archivo de la Catedral, 61 is a copy of Ivo's Decretum (S in Brett's edition).

saec. XIII, in double columns. Contains only Decretum 9.3 to 17.135 med., quires 32-54 of the original book, though the last quire has only one original leaf.

It has a number of canons which are not found in that sequence in manuscripts CRPVBM; a few are also in the same sequence in A (Arsenal 713), e.g. Decretum 9.109A-B, 10.53A, 10.185A; more are in sequence in the Burchard or Benedictus Levita source but in no other manuscripts of Ivo (e.g. Decretum 9.103A; 14.114A-C, 15.45A, 54A, 55A, 56A, 84A; 16. 301A, 354A). This suggests that these are canons dropped from the earlier and fuller form in other copies, rather than insertions by the late S or its exemplar. The readings also show no consistent agreement with PV or CR where these diverge, again consonant with the view that S descends from a copy of a very early state of the text. The copy does have idiosyncracies of its own, among them its practice of enlarging the last words of many canons, and a tendency to reverse an initial 'S'. It also has shorter forms of a number of inscriptions, and sometimes even omits them entirely.

For the sigla of Brett's edition, see the list in the article on Ivo's Decretum.

Links

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

Literature

Kéry, Collections p. 251