List of manuscripts

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This site documents all known manuscripts of all collections covered in the Clavis Wiki. It is still mainly a list of copies of pre-Gratian medieval collections, but at least for the early period is it is complete in the sense that all manuscripts mentioned in any of the following works are included:

• Fowler-Magerl, Clavis canonum (2005) as found here. To integrate these manuscripts, a list was compiled semi-automatically from the manuscript index of that book. See List of manuscripts in Fowler-Magerl for the resulting list.
• Kéry, Canonical collection (1999) as found here. As with the Clavis handbook, a list was compiled based on the mss index. As the complete list (over 1300 mss) seemed to create issues, it was split into four lists, for which see here (Admont to Huesca, 286 mss), here (Ivrea to Palermo, 324 mss), here (Paris to Valère, 397 mss), and here (Vatican to Zwettl, 303 mss).
• Maassen, Geschichte (1870) as found here. Reading his account of the collections, all manuscripts he mentioned were noted and matched with the manuscripts already mentioned in the Wiki. As of summer 2024, this process is largely finished.
• We have also taken into account the manuscripts mentioned by Green, Innocent (1973), the Carolingian Canon Law project, and those which Elliot based his transcriptions on (as found here; for the list, see here), and Rolker, Canon law (2023). Each of them provided a few manuscripts, but most manuscripts were in Kéry‘s book already.
• All entries from all lists were formatted according to the "house style" of Clavis canonum (on which see below) to avoid doublets. In the case of Maassen in particular, the modern home and shelf-mark of the respective manuscripts was identified. As far as possible, erroneous references have been corrected. Erroneous shelf marks or identifications that are found frequently in the literature will be discussed in the individual articles.

Our aim is that every single one of these manuscripts will have its own description as part of this Clavis Wiki. In the long run, therefore, the Category:Manuscript effectively will replace this list.

Place names and other conventions

References to place names should always include the (current) location, the name of the holding institution, and the (current) shelf mark. Place names and the names of institutions are always in the local language. Location, holding institution, and shelf-mark should be separated by commas. For the lemma of an article (and hence its URL), no other information should be used. Information like olim shelf marks, catalogue numbers, and previous homes of a manuscript, should be mentioned in the article but not the lemma. For details, see Conventions on referencing manuscripts.

Presentation in four separate lists

As lists with more than 1000 items seem to create issues, our complete list was also broken down into four lists. All in all, more than 1400 manuscripts are listed, mostly extant codices but also a small number of lost manuscripts, fragments, and multi-volume manuscripts. The list consists of these four parts:

• List of manuscripts part 1 (place names A to H; 340 manuscripts as of July 2024)
• List of manuscripts part 2 (place names I to O; 347 mss)
• List of manuscripts part 3 (place names P to R; 315 mss)
• List of manuscripts part 4 (place names S to Z; 430 mss)