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The manuscript Leipzig, UB 276 contains on fol. 70r–85v a collection of canons on monastic rights including a number of forgeries. Frederick S. Paxton, who analysed the collection, refers to it as a dossier. Some of the texts in the dossier are found only in the ''Collectio XIII librorum'' in the Ms Vat. lat. 1361 and added to the Mantua copy of the A Aucta version of Anselm of Lucca. Other texts are found in the second version of the ''Polycarpus''. Paxton does not insist that the compiler of the collection had direct access to these collections, but  [{{FM|237}}] rather that the texts in question circulated in northern Italy in the 1120s–1130s. The dossier concentrates on the rights of monasteries in regard to tithes and the right of monks to perform pastoral care. The collection contains a number of forgeries. Paxton edits the forgeries together with those texts which are either unique to the collection or found only in collections not yet edited. The collection contains excerpts from the ''Liber ad Gislerum Auximanum episcopum'' of Petrus Damiani. The collection is not numbered in the manuscript and the present analysis ({{Coll|LE}}) uses Paxton’s numbering. The most recent texts are decretals of pope Paschal II. They cannot be dated precisely, however. The manuscript contains on fol. 90rv a letter that Bernard of Clairvaux sent to Innocent II in 1140.

== Literature ==

The dossier was analysed by Frederick S. {{Author|Paxton}}, A canonical dossier on monastic rights in Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek MS 276, BMCL 15 (1985), pp. 1–17. – For the decretals of pope Paschal II see {{Author|Blumenthal}}, Decrees and decretals, pp. 15–30. – For the forgeries in this collection and its closeness to the second version of ''Polycarpus'' and the collection in the Ms Vat. lat. 1361 see {{Author|Landau}}, Gefälschtes Recht, p. 46; reprinted in his: Kanones und Dekretalen, p. 38*. – {{Author|Kéry}}, Collections p. {{Kery|291}}.

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