Collectio Pragensis I

Johann Friedrich von Schulte called the collection on fol. 15–56 of the Ms Prague, Universitní Knihovna VIII. H. 7 a „Sammlung in 294 245 Kapiteln“. Alfons Stickler renamed it the Collectio Canonum Pragensis I (PR). The present form was completed shortly after 1140. Three canons at the end of the collection (243, 244 and 288) were taken from the Concordia discordantium canonum of Gratian. The manuscript contains a list of popes which ends with Hadrian IV, (1154– 1159). The collection contains varied elements, summule as well as canons. It begins with 230 canons, some from the Polycarpus. Canons 231 through 244 are summule, introduced with the title: Tractatus de sacrilegiis et immunitatibus et eorum compositionibus. Canons 245– 252 and 280–294 are taken from Collectio B of the Tripartita.

Because a castrum Ripalta is mentioned in canon 256, André Gouron argues that the collection was compiled in the Rhone valley. He interprets castrum Ripalta as a reference to Hauterives near Valence. The presence of canons from the Exceptiones Petri is a further indication that the collection was a product of the school of Valence and Die. This assumption is made more probable by the fact that the first canons of the Pragensis I are also found in a manuscript which was copied in southern France, Paris, BnF, lat. 2472. This manuscript contains a reference to the Albigensian heresy („in partibus Tolosae damnanda haeresis“). Gouron suspects that the Pragensis I was part of the promotion of canonist activities by members of the order of Saint-Ruf as was the case with a number of other collections: the second version of the Tarraconensis and the Caesaraugustana..

Hubert Mordek found a collection closely related to the Pragensis I in the Ms Munich, StB Clm 13109, fol. 1ra–36r. This collection is undoubtedly earlier. It has summule and about 90 canons in common with the Pragensis I, but the texts are brought in a different sequence. Canons 243 and 244 are missing as is the catalogue of popes. The manuscript comes from the monastery Prüfening near Regensburg. The Ms Prague, Universitní Knihovna VIII. H. 7 was at Sankt Lambrecht in the Steiermark in the 14th century. It is conceivable that the disparate parts of the Pragensis arrived separately in southern Germany and the Steiermark. The Ms Munich contains on fol. 1r–18v: canons 232–235 and 237–239 of the Pragensis, then a canon Perspicue ergo superiorum … eis illata fuerit (on fol. 6rv), canons 241, 245, 257– 259, 263, 23–26, 17–22, then a canon Ex pontificali de ymaginibus et picturis. Gregorius natus syrus ex patre … sanxerunt (on fol. 9rv), canons 31–33, 35, 37–38, 58–61, 64–65, 68–70, 73, 75–81, 83–85, 89– 91, 96, 99–101, 103–104, 109–112, 121–124, 128, 137 - 138, 141, then a canon Petrus de igne purgatorio post mortem. Discere vellem si post 246 mortem … promereatur (fol. 16rv), canon 152, then a canon Quod sanctus Petrus Clementem post se ordinavit episcopum. In ipsis diebus quibus … vita carebit (fol. 16v), canons 158, 168, 176, 179, 182, 204– 205, 214, 11 or 240, 260, 261, 262. The canons which follow fol. 18v are not in the Pragensis I.

Missing in the Ms Munich are: canons 1–16, 39–57, 62–63, 71–72, 86–88, 92–95, 105–108, 113–120, 125–127, 129–136, 139–140, 142– 151, 153–157, 159–167, 169–175, 177–178, 180–181, 183–203, 206– 213, 215–231, 242–244, 246.2–256.

Literature

See Johann Friedrich von Schulte, Über drei in Prager Handschriften enthaltene Canonen-Sammlungen, SB Vienna 57 (1867), p. 175. See also Alfons Stickler, Historia iuris canonici Latini I, Historia fontium (Turin 1950), p. 188. See André Gouron, Sur la Collection en 294 chapitres (ms. Prague Univ. VIII. H. 7), in: Annales de la Faculté de Droit des Sciences Sociales et Politiques et de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques (Bordeaux 1978), pp. 95–106. Idem, Le manuscrit de Prague, Metr. Knih. J. 74, à la recherche du plus ancien décrétiste à l’ouest des Alpes, ZRG Kan. 83 (1997), p. 245. – For the use of Polycarpus see Schulte, p. 176–180, who edited the summule from this manuscript, pp. 182–196. See also Horst, Die Kanonessammlung Polycarp des Gregor von S. Grisogono, pp. 5 f. – For the Ms Munich see Hubert Mordek, Auf der Suche nach einem verschollenen Manuskript … Friedrich Maassen und der Traktat De immunitate et sacrilegio et singulorum clericalium ordinum compositione, in: Aus Kirche und Reich. Studien zu Theologie, Politik und Recht im Mittelalter, Festschrift für Friedrich Kempf, ed. by Hubert Mordek, Sigmaringen 1983, p. 192 n. 23. – For the use of the collection in southern Germany and the Steiermark see Winfried Stelzer, Gelehrtes Recht in Österreich (MIÖG Ergänzungsband 26, Vienna 1982), pp. 27–44. – For Saint-Ruf see Gouron, La science juridique française, passim. Also Poly, Les maitres de Saint-Ruf, pp. 183–203. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, pp. 286 f. 247

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• small (100 to 500 canons) collection
• from Southern France
• saec. XII
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