Collectio canonum in San Daniele, Biblioteca Guarneriana, 203

Codex 203 in the Civica Biblioteca Guarneriana of San Daniele del Friuli contains the Libellus contra invasores et simoniacos et reliquos scismaticos of Deusdedit together with a canon law collection which is an augmented version of the Diversorum patrum sententie (74T). The present analysis is based on that of Uta-Renate Blumenthal (GU). The only texts in the data bank are those not found in the 74T, however. The copy of the collection in the Ms Guarnerius 203 was made prior to the pontificate of Calixtus II (1119–1124) because his name was added to a papal catalogue by a different scribe. The manuscript was probably copied in northern Italy. Robert Kretzschmar has identified the sub-group of the Cassino version of the 74T used as that used for the Collectio II librorum / VIII partium and for the treatise De misericordia et iustitia of Alger of Lüttich. [229] There is a capitulatio in two parallel columns preceding the collection identical in form to the capitulatio which often accompanies the 74T. The collection begins with 221 canons taken from the 74T with three additional texts. Appended to this block of texts are canons on lapsed clergy. These are followed by canons 23–25 of the 74T and a number of texts on excommunication. Further canons from the 74T follow; these deal with simony and nicolaitism, penitence, marriage and consanguinity. A number of these texts are from the A Aucta version of the collection of Anselm of Lucca. Canons 321a and b may come from the collection of Deusdedit (4.158.9 and 10) or from a derivative collection.

The Codex Guarnerius also contains a series of texts (canons 222a, c, e–i) which can be found in the Ashburnhamensis and the Collectio canonum in Paris, BnF, lat. 3858C. They correspond to canons 1. 194, 191, 193, 195–198 in the Ms Paris and canons 398, 396, 395, 406–409 in the Ms Florence Ashburnham. Some of the same canons are also found in the 9th book of the A Aucta version of the collection of Anselm. Canon 222a–c and e = A Aucta 9. 85, 79, 83 and 84.

Literature

The collection was discovered and analysed by Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Codex Guarneriana 203. A manuscript of the Collection in 74 Titles at San Daniele del Friuli, BMCL 5 (1975), pp. 11–34. I am grateful for the microfilm copy she put at my disposal. – For Alger see Kretzschmar, Alger von Lüttichs Traktat, pp. 86–87 n. 109, 88–92, 95 n. 160.

Categories

• key is GU
• from Northern Italy (?)
• belongs to: 74T and derivatives
• small collection
• saec. XI (or early twelfth c?)