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
Collection 2	[[Pseudo-Remedius of Chur, Collectio canonum]]
Collection 3	[[Epitome Hispana]]
Collection 4	[[Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)]]
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 pp. 59, 76, 81, 184-185; Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium pp. 319-321; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform p. 259; Reynolds, Law and Liturgy, 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.