Description of the collections

Here you can find the descriptions of all collections contained in the database. The backbone of this part of the wiki is a digitized version of Linda Fowler-Magerl, Clavis Canonum. Selected Canon Law Collections Before 1140: Access with Data Processing (MGH Hilfsmittel 21, 2005). Most entries covering several collections have been split into individual entries, but the old headings have been preserved (e.g. "The Dionysiana"; for background, see Category:Descriptions that need to be split).

The table of content below largely mirrors the structure of the Clavis manual, with additional collections not in the book added at the end (only a few are inserted where they chronogically belong). For an overview of all collections, have a look at the Category:Collection.

But note: This is an evolving page. While this section started with a verbatim copy of Linda's book, some passages have been (sometimes heavily) modified, some articles on multiple collection have been split, and some articles were added as new collections were fed into the database. If you need to quote the original book, please refer to the digitized exemplar found here and not the text found in this wiki.

The collections (as found in the 2005 Clavis handbook)

Late Antiquity

• The first canon law collections in the Latin West (overview article)
  • The Didache (not in database)
  • The Didascalia Apostolorum (not in database)
  • The Traditio Apostolica (not in database)
  • The Canones Apostolorum (not in database)
  • The Constitutiones Apostolorum (not in database)
  • The Statuta ecclesiae antiqua (not in database)
  • The Collectio Corbeiensis (not in database, not mentioned in 2005 handbook)
  • The Collectio Frisingensis I (not in database)
  • The Collectio Diessensis (not in database)

• Fulgentius Ferrandus, Breviatio canonum (FR)

• The Dionysiana
  • The Collectio Dionysiana I (DW)
  • The Collectio Dionysiana II (DX and DY)
  • The Collectio Dionysiana III (not in database)

• Cresconius, Concordia canonum (SD)

• The Collectio Novariensis, the Capitula Martini and the Epitome Hispana
  • The Collectio Novariensis (not in database)
  • The Capitula Martini (not in database)
  • The Epitome Hispana (PT)

Early Middle Ages (7th-10th c.)

• The Collectio Vetus Gallica (Collectio codicis Andegavensis), the Herovalliana, the Frisingensis secunda and the Bonaevallensis prima
  • The Collectio Vetus Gallica (VG)
  • The Collectio Herovalliana (HV)
  • The Collectio Frisingensis II (FQ)
  • The Collectio Bonaevallensis I (BA)

• The Collectio Hispana, the Hispana Gallica, the Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis and the Hispana Systematica
  • The Collectio Hispana (HO)
  • The Collectio Hispana Gallica (not in database)
  • The Collectio Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis (not in database)
  • The Collectio Hispana Systematica (not in database)

• The Collectio Dionysiana Bobiensis (not in database)

• The Florilegium "Pro causa iniuste" (EI)

• The Dionysio-Hadriana and the Dionysiana adaucta
  • The Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (DZ)
  • The Breviarium ad inquaerendum sententias infra (not in database)
  • The Collectio Dionysiana adaucta (not in database)

• The Collectio Hibernensis, the Collectio Sangermanensis, the Collectio LXXII capitulorum and the Collectio XLIV capitulorum „De episcoporum transmigratione“
  • The Collectio Hibernensis (HR, see also HS and HT)
  • The Collectio Sangermanensis XXI titulorum (8th c.; SG)
  • The Collectio LXXII capitulorum (SF)
  • The Collectio XLIV capitulorum „De episcoporum transmigratione“ (ET)

• The Capitula Angilramni, the Collectio Capitularium of Ansegis, the Collectio Capitularium of Benedictus Levita and the pseudoisidorian decretals
  • The Capitula Angilramni
  • Ansegis, Collectio capitularium
  • Benedictus Levita, Collectio capitularium
  • Pseudoisidore, False Decretals
  • See also the Collectio Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis (not in database)

• The Collectio Dacheriana

• The Constitutiones Sirmondianae, the Commentary of Florus of Lyon to the Constitutiones and the Argrim dossier
  • Constitutiones Sirmondianae
  • Florus of Lyon
  • The Argrim dossier

• The Quadripartitus

• The Collectio canonum attributed to bishop Remedius of Chur

• The Collectio CCCXLII capitulorum

• The Collectio Sancti Emmerami Ratisbonensis

• The Pittaciolus of Hincmar of Laon and material collections of the Ms Berlin, SBPK Phillipps 1764
  • Hincmar of Laon, Pittaciolus
  • The Collectio canonum I in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764
  • The Collectio canonum II in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764
  • The Collectio canonum III in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764
  • The Collectio canonum IV in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764
  • The Collectio canonum V in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1764

• The Collectio XXXI titulorum or CCCIX capitulorum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4278

• The collections in the Ms Milan, Ambrosiana A. 46 inf.
  • The Collectio canonum I in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.
  • The Collectio canonum II in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.
  • The Collectio canonum III in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.
  • The Collectio canonum IV in Milano, Ambrosiana, A. 46 inf.

• The Collectio IV librorum in Köln, Dombibliothek 124

• The Lex Romana canonice compta and the Excerpta Bobiensia
  • The Lex Romana canonice compta (aka Capitula legis Romanae)
  • The Excerpta Bobiensia

• The Collectio Anselmo dedicata

• Atto of Vercelli, Collectio canonum

• The collection of Abbo of Fleury and the opusculum III of Odoramnus of Sens
  • Abbo of Fleury, Collectio canonum
  • Odoramnus of Sens, Opusculum

• Regino of Prüm, Libri duo

High Middle Ages (11th and 12th c.)

• The Collectio IX librorum in Vat. lat. 1349

• The Collectio V librorum

• Burchard of Worms, Liber decretorum (BU, with BV for the Frankfurt Order, and BW, BX, and TZ for additions)

• The Collectio XII partium
  • The first version the Collectio XII partium (TX)
  • The second version the Collectio XII partium (TW)

• The Collectio Veronensis in Verona, BC, LXIV (62), fol. 20v–100r

• The Collectio canonum in Roma, Vallicelliana, Tomus XXI, fol. 284r–302v

• The Collectio Barberiniana

• The Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 3830

• The Collectio CLXXXIII titulorum or Liber canonum diversorum sanctorum patrum or the collection of S. Maria Novella

• The Collectio V librorum in Vat. lat. 1348

• The Collectio Sinemuriensis

• The Diversorum patrum sententie or Collection in 74 Titles and related works:
  • The Collectio LXXIV titulorum (74T) itself (MO)
  • The Swabian Appendix to 74T (ND)
  • The Collectio Sandionysiana in Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. 326 (NA)
  • The Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 13658 (NB).
  • The Collectio IV librorum (4L)
  • The 74T version in Vat. lat. 4977

• The Collectio canonum in Celle, OLG, C. 8

• The Collectio Farfensis of the Ms Vat. lat. 8487 and the florilegium in the Ms Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana 3006, fol. 203r–205v
  • The Collectio Farfensis
  • The florilegium in Firenze, Riccardiana 3006, fol. 203r–205v

• The Collectio Ambrosiana II in Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I. 145 inf.

• The Collectio XVII librorum (or Collection of Saint-Hilaire)

• The Collectio Burdegalensis (BG)

• The florilegium in Mantova, BC, 266 (C. I. 4)

• The Collectio Tarraconensis I (TO and TM)

• The Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 13368 (TC)

• The contents of the Ms Tarragona, Biblioteca Pública (Provincial) 35

• Atto of San Marco, Brevarium canonum

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (A version) (AA)

• The Collectio canonum of Anselm of Lucca – version A Aucta and the florilegium in the Ms Mantua, BCom 318 (C. II. 23)
  • Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (A Aucta version) (AD and ADMantua)
  • The Florilegium in Mantova, BC, 318 (not in database)

• The two collections in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C and related collections:
  • The collection behind the Ashburnhamensis and the collection in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C (overview)
  • The Collectio Ashburnhamensis (LM)
  • The Collectio canonum I in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C (MY)
  • The Collectio canonum II in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C (not in database)

• The Collectio II librorum/VIII partium (2L/8P)

• The Collectio XIII librorum in Berlin, SBPK, Savigny 3 (SA)

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (A version, Barb. lat. 535) (AG)

• The Dictatus Papae and the Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis
  • The Dictatus papae
  • The Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis

• Deusdedit, Collectio canonum

• The Turin Collectio VII librorum (TU)

• The second version of the Collectio Tarraconensis (TA)

• The Collectio canonum in the Ms Madrid, BN lat. 11548

• The Collectio canonum of the Ms Munich, StB Clm 12612

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (B version) (AE)
• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (C version)

• The Collectio canonum in Roma, Vallicelliana, B.89

• The Collectio canonum in Torino, BNU, E.V.44, fol. 71v–86v

• Bonizo of Sutri, Liber de vita christiana

• The florilegium of the Ms Mantua, BCom 439 (D. III. 13)

• The Collectio canonum Ambrosiana I in the Ms Milan, Archivio Capitolare di S. Ambrogio M. 11

• The Collectio canonum in the Ms Munich, StB Clm 16086

• The Collectio XX librorum in Vat. lat. 1350

• The Collectio Ambrosiana III in the Ms Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana H. 5 inf.

• The Collectio Lanfranci

• The Collectio Brugensis

• The Collectio Britannica

• The Collectio Tripartita

• The Cologne Collectio X partium

• The Collectio canonum in Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 713

• Ivo of Chartres, Decretum

• The Panormia

• The Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4283

• The Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 4977

• The Collectio canonum Sancte Genoveve

• The Collectio Atrebatensis

• The Collectio IX librorum (Wolfenbüttel 9L)

• The Collectio X partium (10P)

• The Collectio Gaddiana

• The Collectio Casinensis of Montecassino 216

• The Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 3829

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (version A’) (AB)

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum, abbreviation in Pisa, Seminario Santa Catarina, 59 (CY; not completely in database)

• The Florilegium in Pisa, Seminario Santa Catarina, 59

• The Collectio XIII librorum in Vat. lat. 1361 (AH)

• Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum (version A’) in Parma and Graz MSS (AC; not completely in database)

• The Collectio Beneventana

• The Collectio canonum in San Daniele, Biblioteca Guarneriana, 203

• Gregory of San Grisogono, Polycarpus

• The Collectio VII librorum in Wien, ÖNB, Cod. 2186

• The Collectio III librorum

• The Collectio IX librorum (San Pietro 9L)

• The Collectio canonum (dossier) in the Ms Leipzig, UB 276

• The Collectio canonum in Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 721 (AS)

• The Collectiones Catalaunenses
  • The Collectio Catalaunensis I (CH)
  • The Collectio Catalaunensis II (key is CI, but collection is not in database)

• The Caesaraugustana versions
  • The Collectio Caesaraugustana I (CA), CP
  • The Collectio Caesaraugustana II (CB), (CC), CD
  • The Collectio Caesaraugustana III (not in database, no key)

• The Appendix Seguntina

• The Collectio Pragensis I

New collections

New collections already in database

1. Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum (ed. Friedberg; GR)
2. The florilegium in Montecassino MS 372 (SG)
3. The Collectio Francofurtana (ed. Drossbach; FM)
4. Pseudo-Isidorus receptus (ed. Fuhrmann; IR)
5. The Collectio Sangermanensis XXI titulorum (ed. Stadelmaier; SG)

Collections not yet in database

1. The Mare vitreum
2. The Admonitio synodalis
3. The Collectio Corbeiensis
4. The Sententiae Sidonis
5. The Florilegium in New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, 442
6. The Collectio Quesnelliana
7. The Collectio CXXXVI capitulorum in Paris, BnF, lat. 3871
8. The Collectio XXX capitulorum in Paris, BnF, lat. 3871
9. Abelard, Sic et non
10. The Collectio Avellana
11. The Collectio Berolinensis (6th century)
12. The Collectio Berolinensis I in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Phil. 1742, fols. 287r–289r (13th c.)
13. The Collectio CCCC capitulorum
14. The Collectio XCI capitulorum
15. The Collectio Sancti Amandi
16. The Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 4280
17. The Breviarium extravagantium
18. The Collectio Salisburgensis
19. The Collectio XCVIII capitulorum
20. The Collectio Remensis in Berlin, SBPK, Phill. 1743
21. The florilegium De accusatione episcopi
22. The florilegium in Reims, BM, 15 (RF)
23. The Collectio Audomariensis or Collection of Saint-Omer (OM)
24. The Collectio canonum in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 442 (CF)
25. The Capitula de villa Noviliaco (CN)
26. The Collectio canonum in München, BSB, Clm 16085
27. The Collectio canonum in Göttweig, Stiftsbibliothek, 53 (56)
28. The Collectio CCXXXIII capitulorum in Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 454 Helmst.
29. The Excerpta Antwerpensia
30. The Collectio Mutinensis
31. The Collectio Frisingensis I
32. The Collectio diversarum sententiarum in Berlin, SBPL, Phil. 1764
33. The Hildesheim Excerpts
34. The Collectio Augustana
35. The Collectio CCCCLII capitulorum in Vallicelliana, Tomus XVIII
36. The Candela Gerlandi of Gerland of Besançon
37. A Collectio canonum in Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, 24/1
38. Placidus of Nonantola, Liber de honore ecclesiae
39. The Collectio canonum in Vat. lat. 7828
40. The Fragmentum Nonantulanum in Vat. lat. 10802
41. The so-called Error series
42. Alger of Liège, De misericordia et iustitia
43. The Collectio XII partium article mentions a "Freising collection" (not to be confused with the Collectio Frisingensis I or II) but it is not in the database and has no separate entry. Naming it may be tricky.
44. The Statuta ecclesia antiqua (ed. Munier)
45. The Collectio Pithouensis
46. The Collectio Vaticana in Vat. lat. 1342 and other mss
47. Abbo of Fleury, Epistola XIV (mentioned int he book, but not the database)
48. The Collectio Thessalonicensis in Vat. lat. 5751
49. The Collectio Sancti Mauri
50. The Collectio Tuberiensis
51. The Collectio Weingartensis
52. The Collectio Arelatensis (Liber auctoritatum ecclesiae Arelatensis)
53. The Collectio canonum in Roma, Biblioteca Angelica, Cod. 1447
54. The Collectio Sanblasiana (aka Collectio Italica)
55. The Collectio Diessensis in München, BSB, Clm 5541
56. The Collectio Teatina
57. The Collectio Colbertina
58. The Collectio Bellovacensis
59. The Collectio Laureshamensis in Pal. lat. 574 (etc.)
60. The Sententiae Bonifatii Palatinae associated with Saint Boniface
61. The Collectio canonum in Verona, Biblioteca capitolare, LX.58
62. The Collectio Lugdunensis and the Collectio Albigensis
63. The Collectio Coloniensis
64. The Collectio Hadriano-Hispanica
65. The Collectio ‘concilii secundi Arelatensis’
66. Martinus of Braga, Capitula
67. the Collectio Burgundiana (in Bruxelles, KBR, 8780-93)