Collectio canonum Sancte Genoveve

The Collectio Sancte Genoveve in the Ms Paris, Bibliotheque Sainte-Geneviève 166 (GE) was probably compiled at the beginning of the 12th century in northern France. The most important sources were the Liber decretorum of Burchard and the Ivonian Decretum. Peter Landau determined that the compiler used a copy of the Decretum belonging to the „French“ group. The beginning of the collection is missing, but it is apparent that the collection had four parts, each of which was divided into books. Each of these books has its own capitulatio. The copy is fragmentary, but the rubrics in the capitulations can be used in some cases to restore missing texts by comparing them with the rubrics of related collections. The first part of the collection has four books. The copy begins with canon 1. 2. 12. 1. The second and third parts are divided into five books apiece. In the third part the canons from the second to the fifth book are missing. Only the third part has a title of its own: de diversis transgressionibus. The fourth part consists of three books. Book three has survived.

The book titles are as follows:

1.2 De sacramento baptismatis et confirmationis; 1.3 De sacramento altaris; 1.4 De ecclesiis; 2.1 De episcopis; 2.2 De clericis; 2.3 De iudicibus; 2.4 De coniugiis; 2.5 De deo dicatis et de ieiunio; 3.1 De homicidiis; 3.2 De auguriis; 3.3 De periurio; 3.4 De ebrietate; 3.5 De fornicatione; 4.2 De confessione; 4.3 De penitentia.

Literature

See Fournier – Le Bras, Histoire 2.265–268. Also Fournier, Les collections canoniques attribuées à Yves de Chartres, pp. 426–430; reprinted in his Mélanges 1 pp. 607–611. – For the texts taken from Burchard see Peter Brommer, Kurzformen des Dekrets Bischof Burchards von Worms, Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte 1 (1975), p. 42. For the texts taken from the Ivonian Decretum see Landau, Das Dekret, p. 35; reprinted in his Kanones und Dekretalen p. 151*. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, p. 284. 206