Odoramnus of Sens, Opusculum

Odoramnus of Sens, Benedictine monk at Saint-Pierre-le-Vif at Sens, completed at the age of sixty in the year 1045 a collection which he adressed to Willelmus, the abbot of Saint-Denis. It is called his Opusculum III. Only a fragment has survived in the Ms Vat. Reg. lat. 577 (11th century, Sens), fol. 32v–46v. It deals with the accusation procedure and uses conciliar canons, decretals, Roman law and patristic texts. It contains the letter of Isidore of Seville to Massonem de reparatione sacerdotis. The present analysis (OD) is based on the edition of Robert-Henri Bautier and Monique Gilles. Both authors use the Interpretation of the Breviary of Alaric which was widely used in the episcopal and monastic schools in northern France in the 10th century for training in the ars dictandi.

Literature

For the Opusculum III of Odoramnus see Robert-Henri Bautier and Monique Gilles, Odorannus de Sens, Opera omnia. Textes édités, traduits et annotés, Paris 1972, pp. 114–133. The even numbered pages contain the Latin original, the odd numbered pages the translation into French. An earlier edition was made by Angelo Mai, Spicilegium Romanum 9, Rome 1839–1844, pp. 63–67. This edition is reproduced in Migne PL 142. 803–806. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, pp. 201–202.

Categories

• key is OD
• medium (500 to 1000 canons) collection
• from Sens
• saec. XI