Collectio canonum V in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764

The five collections of canonistic material in the Ms Berlin, SBPK, Phillipps 1746 are closely related to the Pittaciolus of Hincmar of Laon. They can all be associated with Hincmar of Laon and all dated circa 869. The first collection (HB) contains canons dealing with the relationship between suffragan and metropolitan bishops and the pope. The second (HC), which calls itself De clericis rebellibus, deals with episcopal sovereignty, the third (HD) with the immunity of the bishop from accusations and the obligation of the laity to obey their bishops. The fourth (HE), with the title De non respondendo accusatoribus antequam omnia quae ei ablata sunt legaliter restituantur, deals with the exceptio spolii and the fifth (HF) with obstacles to accusing bishops. Whereas the first four books use the pseudoisidorian decretals with a sprinkle of genuine texts, the fifth uses the Capitula Angilramni.

Material from these collections is found in the first Collectio II librorum in the Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf., fol. 72v– 73v, and in the Collectio IV librorum in Köln, Dombibliothek, 124. The collection in the Milan manuscript was compiled at Reims, that in the Cologne manuscript in Lorraine.

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• Description needs to be split
• key is HF
• very small (less than 100 canons) collection
• Clavis entries based on modern edition
• from Laon in Norhtern France
• saec. IX