List of manuscripts

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This site documents all known manuscripts of all collections covered in the Clavis Wiki. It is still mainly a list of copies of pre-Gratian medieval collections, but at least for the early period is it is complete in the sense that all manuscripts mentioned in any of the following works are included:

• Fowler-Magerl, Clavis canonum (2005) as found here. To integrate these manuscripts, a list was compiled semi-automatically from the manuscript index of that book. See List of manuscripts in Fowler-Magerl for the resulting list.
• Kéry, Canonical collection (1999) as found here. As with the Clavis handbook, a list was compiled based on the mss index. As the complete list of 1310 manuscripts seemed to create issues,
• Maassen, Geschichte (1870) as found here. Reading his account of the collections, all manuscripts he mentioned were noted and matched with the manuscripts already mentioned in the Wiki.
• We have also taken into account the manuscripts mentioned by Green, Innocent (1973), the Carolingian Canon Law project, Schon's list of Pseudoisidore manuscripts, the manuscripts Elliot based his transcriptions on, Rolker's 2023 monograph, and further literature. Most manuscripts were in Kéry's book already, but all in all, we added more than 100 manuscripts from these works.
• In collaboration with Anders Winroth, who is preparing the critical edition of Gratian's Decretum, we added a total of 607 manuscripts of this collection.
• All entries from all sources were formatted according to the "house style" of Clavis canonum (on which see Conventions on referencing manuscripts) to eliminate doublets and facilitate further processing. In the case of Maassen in particular, we made sure the modern home and shelf-mark of the respective manuscripts was provided. As far as possible, errors in the literature have been corrected. However, erroneous shelfmarks that are found frequently in the literature are discussed in the individual articles, so even searches for the wrong shelfmark should find the right manuscript.

Our aim is that every single one of these manuscripts will have its own description as part of this Clavis Wiki. In the long run, therefore, the Category:Manuscript effectively will replace this list.

Place names and other conventions

References to place names should always include the (current) location, the name of the holding institution, and the (current) shelfmark. Place names and the names of institutions are always in the local language. Location, holding institution, and shelf-mark should be separated by commas. For the lemma of an article (and hence its URL), no other information should be used. Information like olim shelf marks, catalogue numbers, and previous homes of a manuscript, should be mentioned in the article but not the lemma. For details, see Conventions on referencing manuscripts.

Presentation in four separate lists

All in all, the Clavis project documents more than 2000 manuscripts; as very large lists sometimes seem to create issues, the list f shelfmarks was broken into shorter lists. Almost all entries refer to extant codices, but note that the also a small number of lost manuscripts, fragments, and multi-volume manuscripts included in our lists. The five lists are:

• List of manuscripts part 1 (place names A to H; 341 manuscripts as of October 2024)
• List of manuscripts part 2 (place names I to O; 371 mss)
• List of manuscripts part 3 (place names P to R; 325 mss)
• List of manuscripts part 4 (place names S to Z; 443 mss)
• List of Gratian manuscripts (607 manuscripts)