Collectio XIII librorum in Berlin, SBPK, Savigny 3

General

The Collectio XIII librorum in Berlin, SBPK Savigny 3 (= Berlin 13L) is a collection of the late eleventh century influenced by the Collectio canonum of Anselm of Lucca and closely related to the Collectio II librorum/VIII partium (2L/8P). The most recent text in the Berlin 13L is the letter sent in 1089 by pope Urban II to bishop Gebhard III of Constance (JL 5393). It also shares some rare materials with the collections of the Tarraconensis group.

The collection has the key SA in the present analysis.

Formal sources

The collection also uses the A Aucta version of the collection of Anselm of Lucca, as Peter Landau was the first to realize. The 2L/8P seems to have become available after the first nine books were in place. As a result, a number of canons appear twice, one taken from Anselm and one taken from the 2L/8P. Book 11 contains material (including canons of Poitiers 1078) found in a number collections sometimes associated with Poitiers which Rolker has called the Tarraconensis group. Fowler-Magerl notes that some of the material in book 11 is found in the same sequence in the Turin 7L (Collectio VII librorum in Torino, BNU, D. IV. 33). Book 2 of the Berlin 13L contains the decrees of the councils of Chalcedon, Nicaea, Constantinople and Ephesus. The practice of devoting of a separate book to conciliar canons is also encountered in the Collectio IV librorum, the Tarraconensis, and the Turin 7L. Berlin, SBPK Savigny 3 in the seventeenth century belonged to Hauteserre de Salvaison, professor at the University of Poitiers.

Structure

The collection is divided into thirteen books, just like Anselm's collection.

There is a capitulatio preceeding each book, but not all canons in the text have rubrics in the capitulationes. Books 1, 9 and 13 have no 156 titles, and books 11–13 are not in the order one would expect. The title of book 9 is missing. In the text a quaternio is missing and with it the texts of the canons 8. 26 to 9. 17. The book titles are:

2. De quatuor conciliis; 3. De privilegiorum auctoritate; 4. De ordinationibus ecclesiarum et de omni iure ac statu illarum; 5. De electione et ordinatione ac de omni potestate sive statu episcoporum; 6. De vita et ordinatione clericorum; 7. De lapsis ex clero; 8. De sacramentis; 10. De penitentia; 11. Diversa capitula; 12. De accusationibus episcoporum et a quibus non possint accusari.

Books 3–11 and 12 have approximately the same content as books 4–12 and 3 in the collection of Anselm of Lucca. Excerpts from 2L/8P are found integrated into book 1 and then again in books 10–13. It seems as if an attempt was made at first to combine the two collections, but that it proved unnecessarily complex. Excerpts from the 6th book of the 2L/8P are used in the first book (canons 1. 48–51) – with the same false attributions. For example: canons 2L/8P 6.207 and 1.48 of the 13L both have the inscription: ex concilio tracensi instead of ex concilio cabillonensi. Similarly excerpts from the 7th book of the 2L/8P are used in the 12th book of the 13L – with the same false attributions. Furthermore, canon 7. 64 in the 2L/8P and canon 12. 100 in the 13L have the same false inscription: Marci pape instead of Martini pape.

Canons supporting the primacy of the Roman church taken from the 2L/8P (not from the collection of Anselm as J. Petersmann thought) are inserted into the 10th book (canons 129–131, 136, 139– 147, 149–155, 157–158, 187). Rubrics taken from the 2L/8P are decidedly pro papal. One example was already cited in the description of the 2L/8P, that of the rubric to canon 10. 149: Quod papa possit reges deponere et excommunicare etiam per scriptum. The collection also contains a shorter version of the anonymous text in the 2L/8P: De Romani pontificis potestate universas ecclesias ordinandi.

Literature

For the use of the A Aucta version see Landau, Erweiterte Fassungen, p. 329 f. See also Johanna Petersmann, Die kanonistische Überlieferung des Constitutum Constantini bis zum Dekret Gratians: Untersuchung und Edition, DA 30 (1974), p. 377. – For the Urban II text see Somerville, Pope Urban II, pp. 134–151, esp. 140–141. See Fowler-Magerl, The Restoration, pp. 179–203. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, pp. 226–227. 157

Categories (semi-automatic)

• key is SA
• belongs to: Anselm (all versions) group
• belongs to: Tarraconenses Group
• large (1000 to 2000 canons) collection
• terminus post quem 1098
• terminus ante quem 1094
• saec. XI

DEFAULTSORT "Collectio 013 librorum Berlin"