Freiburg, Universitätsbibliothek, 8

Library	Freiburg, Universitätsbibliothek
Shelfmark	8
Century	s. IX2
Place of origin	Lake Constance region
European region of origin	Southern Germany
General region of origin	Germany
Collection	Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)
Collection 2	Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana
Digital Images	dl.ub.uni-freiburg
Main author	Bruno Schalekamp

Freiburg, Universitätsibliothek, 8 is a ninth-century (second half) manuscript of 138 folios in 2 cols. with 34 lines (305 x 265 mm (220-230 x 180-195 mm)). Its codicological composition reads as follows: 17 quires, II⁴ + 2 x IV²⁰ + III²⁶ + 6 x IV⁷⁴ + 4 x V¹¹⁴ + 3 x IV¹³⁸, quire signatures in Roman numerals start at I¹² until XV¹³⁰; modern foliation in Arabic numerals in lead pencil. The manuscript was penned by three hands (A: fols. 1ra-4va; B: 5ra-120rb; C: 120rb-138vb), as well as glossed by Bernold of Constance from fol. 20v onwards and an anonymous cleric who Autenrieth names ‘Anonymous A’. It was written in Caroline minuscule and originates from the Lake Constance region according to Kéry/Mordek/Reynolds, most probably from the Cathedral School of Constance. The codex was acquired by the Constance Cathedral library in 1343, where it was bound in Constance fashion in s. XV, and later acquired by the Universitätsbibliothek of Freiburg in 1821.

Contents

The manuscript is a medium-sized codex and contains mostly canonical material (Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana and Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)), as well as a list of Roman provinces (Polemius), the Notitia Galliarum, an epistle of Isidore de Seville, a decretal of Gregory the Great, and Amalarius of Metz's epistle to Charlemagne. The parchment has been kept relatively well, indicating the manuscript was kept in a clean and safe environment. Only some corners or margins of folios have dark spots, pointing to regular wear-and-tear through study and use. It includes clear rubrics on the top of every folio side and in between each text for the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana, sometimes in the same ink as the base text or in red.

Fol. 4r of the manuscript, showing the first six canons, as well af the beginning of the seventh, of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)

MS Freiburg has probably been used regularly, as its marginalia point out. Various symbols, added authorities, clarifications on particular topics and commentaries next to the base text show a clear interest after its production. Probably even a few hundred years later, as some hands show late Carolinian minuscule training. For example, on fol. 41v a much later hand commented on the contents of the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana, adding his own sources and interpretations to the conciliar source material. Still, the base text has remained relatively unedited with only a few corrections, which tells us this body of knowledge must have been perceived as authoritative.

See the digitized version: http://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/hs8/0001

folios texts

          	Front cover. Short text with  historical examples of the supreme spiritual power over the self. End of the 11th century

1r Brief description of contents. Added in the 14th century 1ra-1va Polemius Silvius' Nomina provinciarum imperii Romani 1va-2rb Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Galliae 3ra-4ra Isidore de Seville's Epistola ad Massonam 4ra-va Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), chapters I-VIII 5ra-133vb Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana 133vb-134vb Gregory the Great's Decretum ad clerum in basilica beati Petri apostoli 134vb-135vb Isidore de Seville’s De ecclesiasticis officiis, excerpt of chapter 15, and excerpts of the Liber Pontificalis 136ra-138vb Amalarius of Metz's Epistola ad Carolum imperatorem

          	Back cover. Excerpts of the Pseudo-Isidorian decretals. Second half of the 9th century, about 850-888 (Kéry)

Literature

Amann, Praestantiorum aliquot codicum Vols. 1-2 (1836-1837), p. 1-13 and 62-63; Autenrieth, Die Domschule von Konstanz (1956), p. 26-7, 42, 68-75, 107, 121-126, 128-133, 154, and 169; Brambach, Notitia provinciarum (1868), 266-267; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 15, 75, 81, and 106; Kunstmann, ‘Das Eherecht des Bischofs Bernhard von Pavia’ (1861), p. 5-14; Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium (1995), p. 436; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform (1975), p. 244 and 259; Reynolds, Law and Liturgy (1994), p. 116 (IV).

An edition of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) is currently being prepared by Sven Meeder, Gideon de Jong, and Bruno Schalekamp.