Collectio Gaddiana

The collection in the Ms Florence, BML Plut. LXXXIX sup. 32 (GA) is named after the library in which it was found. It was probably compiled in central Italy in the early 12th century. The circa 340 canons are not numbered or divided in titles. Rubrics and inscriptions are often missing. The collection consists of blocks of texts excerpted from earlier collections. It begins with a block of canons from the first book of the Liber decretorum of Burchard. This block is followed by canons from the „Cassino“ version of the Diversorum patrum 215 sententie (74T). On fol. 13v begins a group of canons from the collection of Anselm of Lucca interspersed with series of texts from the collection in the Mss Vat. lat. 3832/Assisi, BCom 227. Folios 44r– 45r contain a series of texts from the Collection of S. Maria Novella. Direct use of the Liber de vita christiana of Bonizo of Sutri is evident on folios 45r–46v. Decrees 1 and 3 of the Roman synod of November 19, 1078 are found on fol. 49r together with the first two decrees of the Roman synod of March 7, 1080. The second of the canons from the synod of 1080 is attributed falsely here to pope Calixtus. Paul Fournier assumed that the scribe had intended to write Calixtus secundus papa (1119–1124) and dated the collection accordingly. The collection can be dated for other reasons in the first decades of the 12th century. It contains series of texts from the Polycarpus.

Literature

For the late dating of the manuscript, which may correspond more to the manuscript than the collection, see Fournier – Le Bras, Histoire 2.209–210. – For the similarity to the Polycarpus see Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform, p. 400 n. 195. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, p. 289.

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