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This site documents all known manuscripts of all collections covered in the Clavis Wiki. It is still mainly a list of copies of pre-Gratian medieval collections, but at least for the early period is it is complete in the sense that all manuscripts mentioned in any of the following works are included:

Fowler-Magerl, Clavis canonum (2005) as found here. To integrate these manuscripts, a list was compiled semi-automatically from the manuscript index of that book. See List of manuscripts in Fowler-Magerl for the resulting list.
Kéry, Canonical collection (1999) as found here. As with the Clavis handbook, a list was compiled based on the mss index. See List of manuscripts in Kéry for all 1312 manuscripts.
Maassen, Geschichte (1870) as found here. Reading his account of the collections, all manuscripts he mentioned were noted and matched with the manuscripts already mentioned in the Wiki.
We have also taken into account the manuscripts mentioned by Green, Innocent (1973), the Carolingian Canon Law project, Schon's list of Pseudoisidore manuscripts, the manuscripts Elliot based his transcriptions on, Rolker's 2023 monograph, and further literature. Most manuscripts were in Kéry's book already, but all in all, we added more than 100 manuscripts from these works.
In collaboration with Anders Winroth, who is preparing the critical edition of Gratian's Decretum, we addedmore than 600 manuscripts of this collection. Note that this list overlaps with the above lists of copies of pre-Gratian canon law collections.
All entries from all sources were formatted according to the "house style" of Clavis canonum (on which see Conventions on referencing manuscripts) to eliminate doublets and facilitate further processing. In the case of Maassen in particular, we made sure the modern home and shelf-mark of the respective manuscripts was provided. As far as possible, errors in the literature have been corrected. However, erroneous shelfmarks that are found frequently in the literature are discussed in the individual articles, so even searches for the wrong shelfmark should find the right manuscript.

Our aim is that every single one of these manuscripts will have its own description as part of this Clavis Wiki. In the long run, therefore, the Category:Manuscript effectively will replace this list.

Place names and other conventions

References to place names should always include the (current) location, the name of the holding institution, and the (current) shelfmark. Place names and the names of institutions are always in the local language. Location, holding institution, and shelf-mark should be separated by commas. For the lemma of an article (and hence its URL), no other information should be used. Information like olim shelf marks, catalogue numbers, and previous homes of a manuscript, should be mentioned in the article but not the lemma. For details, see Conventions on referencing manuscripts.

However, if you want to create a new page on any manuscript already on our list, you do not have to worry about the lemma too much - clicking on any redlink creates a new page with the correct page title (see next para).

Usage

The list documents the ongoing research into the manuscript tradition of canon law materials. As part of the Clavis Wiki, it further serves a practical purpose: if you want to share your knowledge on a specific manuscript, you can check whether if already has an article you can improve; if so, the shelf mark links to the article in question, as you can see from the blue colour of the entry. If there is no article yet, the entry is red but still links to the relevant page (a "redlink"). If you click on it, you can create the page, and once you have saved your changes, all redlink to this page turn blue. Finally, if you cannot find your manuscript on the list at all, you have discovered a manuscript unknown to Maassen, Kéry, and many other scholars - congratulations! We would love to learn about the manuscript, and will gladly mend the blow list; please get in contact with User:Christof Rolker or any other admin.

A list of all manuscripts

For a list of all manuscripts covered by this Wiki, see Category:Manuscript (2,933 entries as of today).

A list of all manuscripts of pre-Gratian canon law

The following list of manuscripts relevant for pre-Gratian canon law contains all manuscripts covered by the Clavis Wiki which are known to, or at least said to contain pre-Gratian canon law. It excludes any copes of Gratian or the Liber Extra, although occasionally these manuscripts also contain pre-Gratian elements (e.g. an appendix of excerpts taken from an older collection). Otherwise, the list is deliberately inclusive; namely, most of the manuscripts have not been seen by any contributor to this Wiki, and upon closer inspection may turn out to be of little or no relevance for the project.

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