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) and made of parchment. Its codicological composition reads as follows: 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 according to its catalogue and Hoffman/Pokorny, 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 almost exclusively canonical material, with some small relevant encyclopedic additions of Isidore de Seville's work and a short work on penance. The known canonical material is dominated by both the abbreviated Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana and Pseudo-Remedius of Chur, Collectio canonum. Other canonical works include excerpts of the Epitome Hispana and the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii). However, most importantly, the manuscript contains a large unknown canonical collection (fols. 40r-104v), in which the last mentioned collectio was included. The unknown collection has yet to be studied. The codex's penitential material includes the Paenitentiale Theodori. The rest of the handwritten work is made up of various capitularies (such as the Frisingensia and 'for the Jews'), epistles, decretals, excerpts of various works (Regino of Prüm), a priest's oath, an homiliary, Leo III's oath of purification for Charlemagne, and various canons of a multitude of councils. It furthermore includes a substantial corpus of unidentified works, which preliminarily can be said to be relevant to canon law.

Fol. Iv of the manuscript, showing the first canons of the canones apostolorum

The codex has been preserved relatively well and was made of high quality parchment. While it is not the most decorative work apart from the first folio, it contains clear red rubrics introducing each segment of text, and was well mapped out for the writing process. The manuscript contains only few marginalia, mostly explanatory, some of which were made in distinct dark ink that pierced each folio. Nor were many corrections made. The work, therefore, give the impression to have been relatively 'untouched' and seems to have been tucked away from prying eyes.

The contents of the work make one wonder about the intention of its creation. The included texts strike as rather specific and should not be considered 'general works'. Rather, I believe, this collection of texts was meant for a bishop and his entourage who hand-picked 'a bit of everything' instead of only one or more established collections. Their interest, therefore, seems to have been focused on a highly refined idea of what canon law and all its related source material entails. A study of the unknown canonical collection might shed more light on the context and compilation of this codex.

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. According to Reynolds, folios 97r-100r are a ‘Leonine’ sermon
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

Glauche, Die Pergamenthandschriften (2000), p. 60-66; 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.