Collectio Pragensis I

Title	Collectio Pragensis I
Key	PR
Size	Small (100 to 500 canons)
Terminus post quem	1140
Terminus ante quem	1150
Century	saec. XII
Place of origin	Rhone valley
European region of origin	Southern France
General region of origin	Southern Europe and Mediterranean
Main author	Linda Fowler-Magerl

Johann Friedrich von Schulte called the collection on fol. 15–56 of Praha, Universitní Knihovna VIII. H. 7 a „Sammlung in 294 [245] Kapiteln“. Alfons Stickler renamed it the Collectio Canonum Pragensis I (PR). The present form was completed shortly after 1140. Three canons at the end of the collection (243, 244 and 288) were taken from Gratian. The manuscript contains a list of popes which ends with Hadrian IV, (1154– 1159). The collection contains varied elements, summule as well as canons. It begins with 230 canons, some from the Polycarpus. Canons 231 through 244 are summule, introduced with the title: Tractatus de sacrilegiis et immunitatibus et eorum compositionibus (see Tractatus de sacrilegiis). Canons 245– 252 and 280–294 are taken from Collectio B of the Tripartita.

Because a castrum Ripalta is mentioned in canon 256, André Gouron argues that the collection was compiled in the Rhone valley. He interprets castrum Ripalta as a reference to Hauterives near Valence. The presence of canons from the Exceptiones Petri is a further indication that the collection was a product of the school of Valence and Die. This assumption is made more probable by the fact that the first canons of the Pragensis I are also found in a manuscript which was copied in southern France (Paris, BnF, lat. 2472). This manuscript contains a reference to the Albigensian heresy („in partibus Tolosae damnanda haeresis“). Gouron suspects that the Pragensis I was part of the promotion of canonist activities by members of the order of Saint-Ruf as was the case with a number of other collections: the second version of the Tarraconensis and the Caesaraugustana.

Hubert Mordek found a collection in München, BSB, Clm 13109, fol. 1ra–36r which is closely related to the Pragensis I.

Literature

See Johann Friedrich von Schulte, Über drei in Prager Handschriften enthaltene Canonen-Sammlungen, SB Vienna 57 (1867), p. 175. See also Alfons Stickler, Historia iuris canonici Latini I, Historia fontium (Turin 1950), p. 188. See André Gouron, Sur la Collection en 294 chapitres (ms. Prague Univ. VIII. H. 7), in: Annales de la Faculté de Droit des Sciences Sociales et Politiques et de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques (Bordeaux 1978), pp. 95–106. Idem, Le manuscrit de Prague, Metr. Knih. J. 74, à la recherche du plus ancien décrétiste à l’ouest des Alpes, ZRG Kan. 83 (1997), p. 245. – For the use of Polycarpus see Schulte, p. 176–180, who edited the summule from this manuscript, pp. 182–196. See also Horst, Die Kanonessammlung Polycarp des Gregor von S. Grisogono, pp. 5 f. – For the Ms Munich see Hubert Mordek, Auf der Suche nach einem verschollenen Manuskript … Friedrich Maassen und der Traktat De immunitate et sacrilegio et singulorum clericalium ordinum compositione, in: Aus Kirche und Reich. Studien zu Theologie, Politik und Recht im Mittelalter, Festschrift für Friedrich Kempf, ed. by Hubert Mordek, Sigmaringen 1983, p. 192 n. 23. – For the use of the collection in southern Germany and the Steiermark see Winfried Stelzer, Gelehrtes Recht in Österreich (MIÖG Ergänzungsband 26, Vienna 1982), pp. 27–44. – For Saint-Ruf see Gouron, La science juridique française, passim. Also Poly, Les maitres de Saint-Ruf, pp. 183–203. – Kéry, Collections p. 286 f. [247]

Categories

• key is PR
• small (100 to 500 canons) collection
• from Southern France
• saec. XII