Description of the collections

Here you can find the descriptions of all collections contained in the database. The backbone of this part of the wiki is a digitized version of Linda Fowler-Magerl, Clavis Canonum. Selected Canon Law Collections Before 1140: Access with Data Processing (MGH Hilfsmittel 21, 2005). Most entries covering several collections have been split into individual entries, but the old headings have been preserved (e.g. "The Dionysiana"; for background, see Category:Article needs to be split).

The table of content in the first section below largely mirrors the structure of the Clavis manual, with additional collections not in the book added at the end (only a few are inserted where they chronogically belong). For an overview of all collections, have a look at the Category:Canonical Collection.

But note: The Clavis Wiki is an evolving page. While many articles started as verbatim copies of the 2005 Clavis handbook, some articles since have been reworked. Some have been added to or otherwise modified, someteims heavily so; some articles on multiple collections have been split, and a large number of collections not described in the 2005 book by now have their own article. If you need to quote the original book, please refer to the digitized exemplar found here and not the text found in this wiki.

The Collections (as found in the 2005 Clavis handbook)

Late Antiquity

• The first canon law collections in the Latin West (overview article)
  • The Didache (not in database)
  • The Didascalia Apostolorum (not in database)
  • The Traditio Apostolica (not in database)
  • The Canones Apostolorum (not in database)
  • The Constitutiones Apostolorum (not in database)
  • The Statuta ecclesiae antiqua (not in database)
  • The Collectio Corbeiensis (not in database, not mentioned in 2005 handbook)
  • The Collectio Frisingensis I (not in database)
  • The Collectio Diessensis (not in database)

• Fulgentius Ferrandus, Breviatio canonum (FR)

• The Dionysiana
  • The Collectio Dionysiana I (DW = synodal canon only)
  • The Collectio Dionysiana II (DY = synodal canons not found in the first version)
  • The Liber decretorum Dionysii (DX = papal letters only)
  • The Collectio Dionysiana III (not in database)

• Cresconius, Concordia canonum (SD)

• The Collectio Novariensis, the Capitula Martini and the Epitome Hispana
  • The Collectio Novariensis (not in database)
  • The Capitula Martini (not in database)
  • The Epitome Hispana (PT)

Early Middle Ages (7th-10th c.)

• The Collectio Vetus Gallica (Collectio codicis Andegavensis), the Herovalliana, the Frisingensis secunda and the Bonaevallensis prima
  • The Collectio Vetus Gallica (VG)
  • The Collectio Herovalliana (HV)
  • The Collectio Frisingensis II (FQ)
  • The Collectio Bonaevallensis I (BA)

• The Collectio Hispana, the Hispana Gallica, the Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis and the Hispana Systematica
  • The Collectio Hispana (HO)
  • The Collectio Hispana Gallica (not in database)
  • The Collectio Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis (not in database)
  • The Collectio Hispana Systematica (not in database)

• The Collectio Dionysiana Bobiensis (not in database)

• The Florilegium "Pro causa iniuste" (EI)

• The Dionysio-Hadriana and the Dionysiana adaucta
  • The Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (DZ)
  • The Breviarium ad inquaerendum sententias infra (not in database)
  • The Collectio Dionysiana adaucta (not in database)

• The Collectio Hibernensis, the Collectio Sangermanensis, the Collectio LXXII capitulorum and the Collectio XLIV capitulorum „De episcoporum transmigratione“
  • The Collectio Hibernensis (HR, see also HS and HT)
  • The Collectio Sangermanensis XXI titulorum (8th c.; SG)
  • The Collectio LXXII capitulorum (SF)
  • The Collectio XLIV capitulorum „De episcoporum transmigratione“ (ET)

• Pseudoisidore (overview article with bibliography)
  • The Capitula Angilramni
  • Ansegis, Collectio capitularium
  • Benedictus Levita, Collectio capitularium
  • Abbreviatio Ansegisi et Benedicti Levitae
  • Pseudoisidore, False Decretals
    • Recension A1
    • Recension A2 (the common short form)
    • Recension A/B
    • Recension B
    • Recension C
    • The Cluny recension
  • Excerptiones de gestis Chalcedonensis concilii
  • Collectio Danieliana
  • See also the Collectio Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis (not in database)

• The Collectio Dacheriana

• The Constitutiones Sirmondianae, the Commentary of Florus of Lyon to the Constitutiones and the Argrim dossier
  • Constitutiones Sirmondianae
  • Florus of Lyon
  • The Argrim dossier

• The Quadripartitus

• The Collectio canonum attributed to bishop Remedius of Chur

• The Collectio CCCXLII capitulorum

• The Collectio Sancti Emmerami Ratisbonensis

• The Pittaciolus of Hincmar of Laon and material collections of the Ms Berlin, SBPK Phillipps 1764
  • Hincmar of Laon, Pittaciolus
  • The Collectio canonum I in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764
  • The Collectio canonum II in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764
  • The Collectio canonum III in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764
  • The Collectio canonum IV in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764
  • The Collectio canonum V in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764

• The Collectio XXXI titulorum or CCCIX capitulorum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4278

• The collections in the Ms Milan, Ambrosiana A. 46 inf.
  • The Collectio canonum I in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.
  • The Collectio canonum II in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.
  • The Collectio canonum III in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.
  • The Collectio canonum IV in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.

• The Collectio IV librorum in Köln, Dombibliothek 124

• The Lex Romana canonice compta and the Excerpta Bobiensia
  • The Lex Romana canonice compta (aka Capitula legis Romanae)
  • The Excerpta Bobiensia

• The Collectio Anselmo dedicata

• Atto of Vercelli, Collectio canonum

• The collection of Abbo of Fleury and the opusculum III of Odoramnus of Sens
  • Abbo of Fleury, Collectio canonum
  • Odoramnus of Sens, Opusculum

• Regino of Prüm, Libri duo

High Middle Ages (11th and 12th c.)

• The Collectio IX librorum in Vat. lat. 1349

• The Collectio V librorum

• Burchard of Worms, Liber decretorum (BU, with BV for the Frankfurt Order, and BW, BX, and TZ for additions)

• The Collectio XII partium
  • The first version the Collectio XII partium (TX)
  • The second version the Collectio XII partium (TW)

• The Collectio Veronensis in Verona, BC, LXIV (62), fol. 20v–100r

• The Collectio canonum in Roma, Vallicelliana, Tomus XXI, fol. 284r–302v

• The Collectio Barberiniana

• The Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 3830

• The Collectio CLXXXIII titulorum or Liber canonum diversorum sanctorum patrum or the collection of S. Maria Novella

• The Collectio V librorum in Vat. lat. 1348

• The Collectio Sinemuriensis

• The Diversorum patrum sententie or Collection in 74 Titles and related works:
  • The Collectio LXXIV titulorum (74T) itself (MO)
  • The Swabian Appendix to 74T (ND)
  • The Collectio Sandionysiana in Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. 326 (NA)
  • The Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 13658 (NB).
  • The Collectio IV librorum (4L)
  • The 74T version in Vat. lat. 4977

• The Collectio canonum in Celle, OLG, C. 8

• The Collectio Farfensis of the Ms Vat. lat. 8487 and the florilegium in the Ms Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana 3006, fol. 203r–205v
  • The Collectio Farfensis
  • The florilegium in Firenze, Riccardiana 3006, fol. 203r–205v

• The Collectio Ambrosiana II in Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I. 145 inf.

• The Collectio XVII librorum (or Collection of Saint-Hilaire)

• The Collectio Burdegalensis (BG)

• The florilegium in Mantova, BC, 266 (C. I. 4)

• The Collectio Tarraconensis I (TO and TM)

• The Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 13368 (TC)

• The contents of the Ms Tarragona, Biblioteca Pública (Provincial) 35
  • Collectio canonum I in Tarragona, PB, 35 (SC)
  • Collectio canonum II in Tarragona, PB, 35 (not in database)

• Atto of San Marco, Brevarium canonum

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (A version) (AA)

• The Collectio canonum of Anselm of Lucca – version A Aucta and the florilegium in the Ms Mantua, BCom 318 (C. II. 23)
  • Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (A Aucta version) (AD and ADMantua)
  • The Florilegium in Mantova, BC, 318 (not in database)

• The two collections in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C and related collections:
  • The collection behind the Ashburnhamensis and the collection in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C (overview)
  • The Collectio Ashburnhamensis (LM)
  • The Collectio canonum I in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C (MY)
  • The Collectio canonum II in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C (not in database)

• The Collectio II librorum/VIII partium (2L/8P)

• The Collectio XIII librorum in Berlin, SBPK, Savigny 3 (SA)

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (A version, Barb. lat. 535) (AG)

• The Dictatus Papae and the Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis
  • The Dictatus papae
  • The Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis

• Deusdedit, Collectio canonum

• The Turin Collectio VII librorum (TU)

• The second version of the Collectio Tarraconensis (TA)

• The Collectio canonum in the Ms Madrid, BN lat. 11548

• The Collectio canonum of the Ms Munich, StB Clm 12612

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (B version) (AE)
• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (C version)

• The Collectio canonum in Roma, Vallicelliana, B.89

• The Collectio canonum in Torino, BNU, E.V.44, fol. 71v–86v

• Bonizo of Sutri, Liber de vita christiana

• The florilegium of the Ms Mantua, BCom 439 (D. III. 13)

• The Collectio canonum Ambrosiana I in the Ms Milan, Archivio Capitolare di S. Ambrogio M. 11

• The Collectio canonum in the Ms Munich, StB Clm 16086

• The Collectio XX librorum in Vat. lat. 1350

• The Collectio Ambrosiana III in the Ms Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana H. 5 inf.

• The Collectio Lanfranci

• The Collectio Brugensis in Brugge, Openbare Bibliotheek, 99

• The Collectio Britannica

• The Collectio Tripartita

• The Cologne Collectio X partium

• The Collectio canonum in Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 713

• Ivo of Chartres, Decretum

• The Panormia

• The Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283

• The Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 4977

• The Collectio canonum Sancte Genoveve

• The Collectio Atrebatensis

• The Collectio IX librorum (Wolfenbüttel 9L)

• The Collectio X partium (10P)

• The Collectio Gaddiana

• The Collectio Casinensis of Montecassino 216

• The Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 3829

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (version A’) (AB)

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum, abbreviation in Pisa, Seminario Santa Catarina, 59 (CY; not completely in database)

• The Florilegium in Pisa, Seminario Santa Catarina, 59

• The Collectio XIII librorum in Vat. lat. 1361 (AH)

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (version A’) in Parma and Graz MSS (AC; not completely in database)

• The Collectio Beneventana

• The Collectio canonum in San Daniele, Biblioteca Guarneriana, 203

• Gregory of San Grisogono, Polycarpus

• The Collectio VII librorum in Wien, ÖNB, Cod. 2186

• The Collectio III librorum

• The Collectio IX librorum (San Pietro 9L)

• The Collectio canonum (dossier) in the Ms Leipzig, UB 276

• The Collectio canonum in Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 721 (AS)

• The Collectiones Catalaunenses
  • The Collectio Catalaunensis I (CH)
  • The Collectio Catalaunensis II (key is CI, but collection is not in database)

• The Caesaraugustana versions
  • The Collectio Caesaraugustana I (CA), CP
  • The Collectio Caesaraugustana II (CB), (CC), CD
  • The Collectio Caesaraugustana III (not in database, no key)

• The Appendix Seguntina

• The Collectio Pragensis I

New Canonical Collections

New Canonical Collections already in Database

1. Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum (= "Gratian 2", ed. Friedberg; GR)
2. The florilegium in Montecassino MS 372 (SG)
3. The Collectio Francofurtana (ed. Drossbach; FM)
4. Pseudo-Isidorus receptus (ed. Fuhrmann; IR)
5. The Collectio Sangermanensis XXI titulorum (ed. Stadelmaier; SG)

Work in Progress

See Category:Work in Progress for collections which are being prepared to be added to the database.

Canonical Collections not yet in Database (A-Z)

1. Abbo of Fleury, Epistola XIV (mentioned in the book, but not the database)
2. Abelard, Sic et non
3. Admonitio synodalis
4. Alger of Liège, De misericordia et iustitia
5. Argrim dossier in Paris, BnF, lat. 2449 etc.
6. Breviarium ad inquaerendum sententias infra
7. Breviarium extravagantium
8. Breviarium Hipponense
9. Candela Gerlandi of Gerland of Besançon
10. Capitula de villa Noviliaco ('CN')
11. Codex Encyclius
12. Codex epistolaris Carolinus
13. Collectio ‘concilii secundi Arelatensis’
14. Collectio Admontensis
15. Collectio Albigensis
16. Collectio Arelatensis (Liber auctoritatum ecclesiae Arelatensis)
17. Collectio Audomariensis or Collection of Saint-Omer ('OM')
18. Collectio Augustana
19. Collectio Avellana
20. Collectio Bellovacensis
21. Collectio Bernensis
22. Collectio Berolinensis (6th century, ed. Schwarz), not to be confused with other Berolinenses including:
23. Collectio Berolinensis I in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Phill. 1742, fols. 287r–289r (13th c.)
24. Collectio Berolinensis II in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, lat. fol. 306, fol. 1r-13r.
25. Collectio Bigotiana in Paris, BnF, lat. 2796
26. Collectio Bobbiensis in Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C. 238 inf.
27. Collectio Bonaevallensis I
28. Collectio Bonaevallensis II
29. Collectio Brugensis (decretal collection)
30. Collectio Burgundiana (in Bruxelles, KBR, 8780-93)
31. Collectio canonum in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 442 ('CF')
32. Collectio canonum in Göttweig, Stiftsbibliothek, 53 (56)
33. Collectio canonum in München, BSB, Clm 16085
34. Collectio canonum in Oxford, Bodley 561
35. Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 1711
36. Collectio canonum II in Paris, BnF, lat. 4280
37. Collectio canonum in Roma, Biblioteca Angelica, Cod. 1447
38. Collectio canonum in Roma, Vallicelliana, A.18
39. Collectio canonum I in Roma, Vallicelliana, F.54
40. Collectio canonum II in Roma, Vallicelliana, F.54
41. Collectio canonum in St. Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, 24/1
42. Collectio canonum in Troyes, BM, 1406
43. Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 7828
44. Collectio canonum in Verona, BC, LIX (57).
45. Collectio canonum in Verona, BC, LVII (55).
46. Collectio canonum in Verona, BC, LXIII (61)
47. Collectio CCL capitulorum
48. Collectio CCXXXIII capitulorum in Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 454 Helmst.
49. Collectio CCCC capitulorum
50. Collectio CCCCLII capitulorum in Vallicelliana, Tomus XVIII
51. Collectio Colbertina
52. Collectio Coloniensis
53. Collectio Corbeiensis
54. Collectio Corbeiensis systematica
55. Collectio CXXXVI capitulorum in Paris, BnF, lat. 3871
56. Collectio Danieliana
57. Collectio Diessensis in München, BSB, Clm 5541
58. Collectio diversarum sententiarum in Berlin, SBPL, Phil. 1764
59. Collectio Fiscani
60. Collectio Frisingensis II
61. Collectio Grimanica
62. Collectio Hadriano-Hispanica
63. Collectio Iustelliana
64. Collectio Laureshamensis in Pal. lat. 574 (etc.)
65. Collectio LIII titulorum (see Kéry, Collections pp. 167)
66. Collectio Lugdunensis
67. Collectio Mutinensis
68. Collectio Novariensis concilii Chalcedonensis‎
69. Collectio Pithouensis
70. Collectio Quesnelliana
71. Collectio Ratisbonensis in München, BSB, Clm 14540 and Wien, ÖNB, Cod. 829.
72. Collectio Remensis in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1743
73. Collectio Salisburgensis in Wien, ÖNB, Cod. 489.
74. Collectio Salisburgensis
75. Collectio Sanblasiana (aka Collectio Italica)
76. Collectio Sancti Amandi
77. Collectio Sancti Mauri
78. Collectio Sangermanensis in Paris, BnF, lat. 12097 edited by Eduard Schwartz (not to be confused with any other Collectio Sangermanensis)
79. Collectio Taurinensis (see Torino, BNU, E. V. 44)
80. Collectio Teatina
81. Collectio Theodosii diaconi
82. Collectio Thessalonicensis in Vat. lat. 5751
83. Collectio Tuberiensis
84. Collectio Turonensis
85. Collectio Vaticana in Vat. lat. 1342 and other mss
86. Collectio Veronensis in Verona, BC, XXII (20) (6th century) ed Schwartz, not to be confused with any of the other Collectiones Veronenses
87. Collectio Veronensis in Verona, BC, LX (58) also edited by Schwartz.
88. Collectio Vindobonensis
89. Collectio Weingartensis
90. Collectio Weissenburgensis in Reg. lat. 423
91. Collectio XCI capitulorum
92. Collectio XCVIII capitulorum
93. Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)
94. Collectio XXX capitulorum in Paris, BnF, lat. 3871
95. Corpus canonum Africano-Romanum‎, the collection behind Frisingensis prima and Wirceburgensis
96. Cresconius Gallicus‎
97. De accusatione episcopi
98. Epitome Hadriani (not in Kéry)
99. Error series
100. Excerpta Antwerpensia
101. Excerpta Hispana
102. Florilegium in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1688
103. Florilegium in New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 442
104. Florilegium in Paris, BnF, lat. 10402
105. Florilegium in Reg. lat. 399
106. Florilegium in Reims, BM, 15 ('RF')
107. Fragmentum Nonantulanum in Vat. lat. 10802
108. Freising collection of canonical materials used for the Collectio XII partium. Not to be confused with the Collectio Frisingensis prima or secunda).
109. Freising fragment
110. Hildesheim Excerpts
111. Isaac of Langres, Capitula
112. Liber Extra
113. Mare vitreum
114. Martinus of Braga, Capitula
115. Ordinationes ecclesiastice in XXI libros distribute
116. Placidus of Nonantola, Liber de honore ecclesiae
117. Registri Ecclesiae Carthaginensis Excerpta
118. Sammlung in Sachen des Monophysitismus
119. Sententiae Bonifatii Palatinae associated with Saint Boniface
120. Sententiae Sidonis
121. Statuta ecclesiae antiqua (ed. Munier)
122. Synodicon Casinense
123. Tractatus de sacrilegiis
124. Tabulae Hispanae

Collections of Papal Letters (not yet in Database)

The Register of Gregory the Great

1. Registrum Gregorii
2. Collectio CC epistolarum
3. Collectio Pauli

Collections of the Letters of Leo the Great

1. Collectio Ratisbonensis
2. Collection of William of Malmesbury
3. Ballerini Collection 10 (as found in Pseudoisidore AB and Pseudoisidore B)
4. Ballerini Collection 11 (as found in Pseudoisidore A1)
5. Ballerini Collection 12 (as found in Pseudoisidore C)
6. Ballerini Collection 13 = Collectio Florentina
7. Ballerini Collection 20
8. Ballerini Collection 21

Correspondence of Saint Boniface

1. Collectio pontificia

The Register of John VIII

1. Registrum Iohannis VIII

The Register of Gregory VII

1. Registrum Gregorii VII

The formulary collection of Saint-Denis

1. Formulae collectionis Sancti Dionysii

See also

See also the Category:Canonical Collection which effectively will replace the old table of contents.