Hildesheim Excerpts

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
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Title Hildesheim Excerpts
Key ?
Size Very small (less than 100 canons)
Century saec. XI
European region of origin Western Germany
Author Christof Rolker


Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 32 Helmst., a well-known copy of Regino's Libri duo, also contains a small canonical collection, the Hildesheim Excerpts.

The collection was first described by Hoffmann/Pokorny ("Die Hildesheimer Auszüge"). According to them, it was created in several steps at Hildesheim in the first half of the eleventh century in the context of the Gandersheim Controversy. At least six formal source were used, including the Collectio Anselmo dedicata and Burchard's Liber decretorum.

Literature

Brommer, Kurzformen p. 23; Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 127-129