Collectio Catalaunensis I

There are two collections from early twelfth-century Châlons-en-Champagne known as the Catalaunenses. The first of them (the Collectio Catalaunensis I) is divided into two parts; most of the canons of the first part (books 1–10) come from the Collectio B of the Tripartita. The compiler apparently also knew the Collectio Atrebatensis. Vincent of Beauvais relates that Hugo, bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne (1100–1113), had made a libellus portabilis of the summa decretorum Ivonis. Possibly he was referring to the first part of the Collectio Catalaunensis I. In the second half of the Collectio Catalaunensis I (books 11–18) are found canons from the Collectio X partium. This second part deals mainly with procedure and it has a capitulatio.

The analysis of the Collectio Catalaunensis I is based on the sole manuscript Châlons-sur-Marne, BM 47, fol. 1–57 (CH), with missing inscription supplied from Châlons, BM, 75, the sole copy of Catalaunensis II. References to the latter are found in the "Fundort" column. E.g. the entry "F1R, CI5.1.1 F114R" for [CH01.001] means that the very first canon of the Catalaunensis I is found on Châlons, BM 47, fol. 1r and found at the beginning of book five of the Catalaunensis I in Châlons, BM, 75, fol. 114r.

Literature

For the Collectiones Catalaunensis I and Catalaunensis II see Fournier, Les collections canoniques attribuées à Yves de Chartres, pp. 624–648; reprinted in his: Mélanges de droit canonique 1, pp. 626–650. – The prologue of Catalaunensis II was translated into English by Somerville and Brasington, Prefaces, pp. 164–165. For more on the prologue to Catalaunensis II see Brasington, Studies in the Nachleben of Ivo of Chartres, pp. 74–79. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, pp. 290– 291.

Categories (Catalaunensis I)

• key is CH
• belongs to: Catalaunenses
• medium (500 to 1000 canons) collection
• from Châlons-en-Champagne aka Châlons-sur-Marne
• from Northern France
• terminus post quem 1100
• terminus ante quem 1113
• saec. XII