München, BSB, Clm 6241
| Library | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | Clm 6241 |
| Century | s. Xex (catalogue/Reynolds), s. X⅔ (Kéry) |
| General region of origin | Freising |
| Collection | [[Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana abbreviata]] |
| Collection 2 | [[Pseudo-Remedius of Chur, Collectio canonum, Epitome Hispana, and |
| Main author | Bruno Schalekamp |
| Main author | Christof Rolker |
| Main author | Clemens Radl |
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6241 is a late tenth-century manuscript of 141 folios in 1 col. (305 x 205 mm). Its codicological composition reads as follows: 40 quires: 305 x 205 mm; 18 or 19 quires: IV8 + (IV – 1)15 + 3 x IV39; restored quires: (IV – 1)46 + IV54 + (IV – 4)58 + 4 x IV90 + (IV + 1)98 + 2 x IV114 + III120 + 2 x IV136 + ?142; quire signatures start at I8 until XVIII136, no signatures hereafter. Modern folio numbering in Arabic numerals are found on the recto side of each folio in a modern hand and penned with lead pencil. It was written by two or three hands in Caroline minuscule. The manuscript's origins can be traced to Freising and its provenance is from the Cathedral Chapter of Freising based on a signature on fol. 1r, which reads: liber frisingensis sanctę marię sanctique corbinia[ni].
Contents
München Clm 6241 is a medium-sized codex and contains exclusively canonical material, with some very small relevant encyclopedic additions of Isidore de Seville.
TO BE FINISHED The canonical part is dominated by the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana, which takes up close to 300 folios of the manuscript. Other works included are some epistles (Nicholas I and Gregory III), papal decretals (among others, Gregory the Great, Gelasius, and Pseudoisidore), various conciliar canons (Ancyra, Neo-Caesarea, and Rome), and a canonical collection (Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), which is one of the more complete witnesses).
TO BE FINISHED The manuscript is an immense and expensive work, which had a lot of resources poured into it and must have a significant amount of scribal effort. The work contains some eye-catching large illuminated capitals and is well-structured, indicating the base text was deliberately planned out and ruled beforehand. Furthermore, the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana includes helpful signs of chapters on the top of every folio side, making the manuscript easy to manage. Some marginalia can be found next to the base text of the aforementioned collection, which seem to have been added at a not much later stage. In between the lines, some corrections or clarifications were also added. Lastly, the manuscript is very well-preserved, except for the first eight and last two folios: the former seem to have been the victim of some water damage, while the latter have been prone to other forms of wear-and-tear.
See the digitized version: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb00078562.
| folios | texts |
|---|---|
| Front cover | |
| Ir | Blank page. Some notes included, which might have been probationes pennae |
| 1v-31v | Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana abbreviata. Opens with the Canones apostolorum, ends with various papal decretals |
| 31-33v | Epitome Hispana with additions |
| 33v-35r | Paenitentiale Theodori |
| 35r-38r | Capitula Frisingensia |
| 38r-v | Glossary of the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana |
| 38v-39r | Short excerpt of a work on numbers |
| 39v | Blank page |
| 40r-104v | Unknown canonical collection, including: |
| 40r-51v | Epistula Rabani Magonciacensis archiepiscopi cum coepiscopis suis ad Ludouuicum regem |
| 51v-77v | Epistola Triburiensis concilii |
| 77v-82r | Epistula Nicholai papae ad Karolum Magontiacensem archiepiscopum et ad eius suffraganeos tam episcopos quam abbates |
| 82r-85r | Various canons of councils and papal decretals, including: |
| 82r-v | Canon 15 of the council of Rome (742 or 745) organised by pope Zachary |
| 82v | Epistle of pope Gregory the Great to Boniface |
| 82v-83r | In constitutis Gregorii papae |
| 83r | Excerpt of Isidore de Seville’s Etymologiae, titled De agnatis et cognatis. Here mentioned as book 7, chapter 30, which is in fact book 9, chapter 7 |
| 83r-84r | Fabiani urbis Romae episcopi de crismate |
| 84r | Canon 13 of the third council of Orléans (538) and canon eight of the Capitulary of Worms (829) |
| 84r-85r | De non inuadendis ęcclesiae rebus capitula Lucii episcopi |
| 85r-87r | Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), chapters I-II, X-XI, XIIII, XVII, XVIII, XXII, and XXVIII |
| 87r | De administratoribus legis |
| 87r-v | Epistle of pope Innocentius |
| 87v-90v | Capitulary for the Jews |
| 90v | De recipienda uxore in captiuitatem adducta |
| 90v-92r | Excerptum super istud capitulum de libro Będę presbiteri |
| 92r-v | Excerpt of decretal by pope Vigilius |
| 92v-93v | Excerpt of the council of Meaux-Paris (845/846) |
| 93v | Canon 15 of the first council of Orléans (511) |
| 93v-94r | Excerpt of a council of Toledo, including canon 15 |
| 94r-v | Excerpt of the council of Elvira (305/306). Also two unidentified texts, titled De tricennali prescriptione Gelasii papę and De his qui presbiteros fatigare presumunt |
| 95r-v | A few unidentified texts, titled De terminis minime transferendis, De compositione ministrorum ęcclesiae, De compositione presbyterorum uel diaconorum, Pro qua causa uxor ducatur, and De electione mariti et uxoris |
| 95ar | Capitulary of Ver (884), canon 8, and Council of Meaux-Paris (845/846), canon 56 |
| 95av | Blank leaflet |
| 96r-99r | Homiliary, the Admonitio synodalis, (allegedly) by pope Leo IV |
| 99r-v | Priests’ oath. Titled, in Latin, De sacramento episcopis qui ordinandi sunt ab eis. Contents written in Old High German of which the first words read Daz ih dir hold pin N. demo piscophe... |
| 99v-100r | The oath of purification of pope Leo III for Charlemagne |
| 100r-v | Regino of Prüm's De synodalibus causis, book 2, chapters 232 and 231 |
| 100v-101r | Council of Agde (506), allegedly canon 73. Also includes an unidentified text, titled De his qui peccata penitere nolunt |
| 101r-v | Unidentified text, titled Quod episcopus presbiter et diaconus peccantes fideles uerberare debeant. Also includes chapter 3 of Require in libro secundo de uita sancti Martini |
| 101v-102v | Council of Ancyra (314), canon 33 |
| 102v | Regino of Prüm's De synodalis causis, book 2, chapter 143 |
| 102v-103r | De discretione periuriorum apud XXV |
| 103r-v | Magonciacensi concilio and De eo si quis liber aliquo crimine infamatur caput XXII Triburiensis concilii |
| 103v-104r | Admonitio de cotidiana et breuissima oratione mane et uespere |
| 104r-v | Two unidentified texts, titled Ut si quam diocesim episcopus ab heresi liberans triennio possederit nullus eam repetat and De sacrilegis |
| 104v-106r | Isidore de Seville's Etymologiae, book 8, chapter 9, sections 9-35 |
| 106v-141r | Pseudo-Remedius of Chur, Collectio canonum |
| 141v | Blank page. Some notes included, which might have been probationes pennae |
| Back cover |
Literature
Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 59, 76, 81, 184-185; Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium (1995), p. 319-321; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform (1975), p. 259; Reynolds, Law and Liturgy (1994), p. 511.
An edition of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) is currently being prepared by Sven Meeder, Gideon de Jong, and Bruno Schalekamp.
