Collectio LXXIV titulorum

Origin

Time of origin

Internal evidence for the date is scare.

Fowler-Magerl, quoting Jasper, argued that the collection must have been compiled before 1073/74 because in this year Bernold of Konstanz quoted from it.

Scholars have sometimes argued that the sole copy of the Collection of Saint-Denis was written in 1068; if so, this would provide a terminus ante quem for 74T as the Collection of Saint-Denis draws on a mature version of 74T. However, while it is clear the manuscript was written not before 1065, and may well have been written soon after, there is not

Place of origin

Scholarship has long discussed where and when 74T was compiled. In late nineteenth and early twentieth century research, the collection was mainly seen as a "canon law manual of the Gregorian reform" (Fournier). This was the main reason the collection was thought to have been compiled by Humbert of Silva Candida (esp. Michel). John Gilchrist was not convinced of Humert's authorship but reaffirmed the traditional view that the collection was Italian, even if he also highlighted some arguments for an origin north of the Alps. Linda Fowler-Magerl argued that 74T used rare formal sources known in the regions north of the Loire but with no known Italian transmission. In the past 25 years, scholarship has largely followed her argument, but there is still some uncertainty where exactely it was compiled. The region most frequently mentioned is Lotharingia (Fowler-Magerl, Kéry, Strupp), which is also home of some of the earliest copies of 74T. In addition, the earliest collections known to have drawn on 74T (the Collection of Saint-Denis, the collection in Paris, BnF, lat. 13658, and the Collection in Four Books) are all from modern France, suggesting that 74T was available in these regions

Categories (for 74T proper, i.e. MO)

• key is MO
• Needs to be split
• from Northwestern Europe - Cologne (Linda), Reims (Rolker), Lotharingia (Kéry)?
• belongs to: 74T and derivatives
• small (315 cc) collection
• terminus post quem 1050
• terminus ante quem 1073 according to Linda
• saec. XI