Collectio Ashburnhamensis

The Collectio Ashburnhamensis is named after the only known manuscript, Firenze, BML, Ashburnham 1554 (LM). It is related to the Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C (MY). Linda Fowler-Magerl assumed that both collections have a common formal source, the lost intermediate collection she labelled "lm/my".

Like MY, LM begins with series of canons from the 74T and continues with a mixture of canons from the 74T, the 4L and texts also found in the A Aucta form of the collection of Anselm of Lucca. Its canons are divided into titles, but neither titles nor canons are numbered. LM has been described as a collection in two parts because of conciliar decrees which follow the collection, 149 but neither the conciliar canons nor LM is referred to as pars or liber and the conciliar canons are in no way attached to LM.

The Ashburnham manuscript contains material from northern France not in the Paris manuscript. This testifies to the flow of information 150 in both directions common in the late 11th century.

Literature

For a more detailed comparison of the two collections see Fowler-Magerl, The Relationship, pp. 241–260. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, p. 278.

Categories

• key is LM
• belongs to: 74T and derivatives
• very small (less than 100 canons) collection
• from Rome / Central Italy
• saec. XI
• Clavis entries based on manuscript