München, BSB, Clm 6242

Library	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Shelfmark	Clm 6242
Century	s. IX¼/IX⅓
General region of origin	Freising
Collection	Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii)
Collection 2	Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana
Main author	Bruno Schalekamp

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6242 is an early ninth-century manuscript of 311 folios in 1 col. (fols. 1r-3r and 22v-311v) and 2 cols. (fols. 3va-22rb and some episcopal/clerical lists not mentioned here) (315 x 210 mm). Its codicological composition reads as follows: 40 quires: IV⁸ + (V – 1)¹⁷ + (III – 1?)²² + (IV + 1?)³¹ + 18 x IV¹⁷⁵ + III¹⁸¹ + 13 x IV²⁸⁵ + (IV – 2)²⁹²; restored quires: 2 x IV³⁰⁷ + (III – 2?)³¹¹, quire signatures in Roman numerals start at I³¹ until XX¹⁸¹, no signatures hereafter. Modern folio numbering in Arabic numerals are found on the recto side of each folio in a modern hand. It was written by numerous (but unknown amount of) hands in Caroline minuscule according to Bischoff and contains some additions from s. X according to its catalogue. The vast part was written in saec. IX^⅓, after 811, according to Kéry and Mordek, saec. IX, ca. 815-825 according to Bierbrauer, or saec. IX^¼ according to Bischoff and Bergmann. The manuscript's origins can be traced to Freising and was probably penned down under the rule of bishop Hitto (811-835). The manuscript's provenance is from the Cathedral Chapter of Freising based on a signature on fol. 1r, which reads: Liber iste est sancte marie sanctique corbiniani frising[e] (by hand from s. XII).

Contents

München Clm 6242 is a large and bulky codex and contains exclusively canonical material, with some very small relevant encyclopedic additions of Isidore de Seville. 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).

Fol. 23v of the manuscript, showing the dedicatory preface to the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana

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/bsb00036889?page=1.

folios	texts
	Front cover and flyleaf
1r-2r	Epistle of pope Nicholas I (no. 138) to Solomon I, bishop of Constance
2r	Two versions of the first canon of the Council of Ancyra (314)
2v-289v	Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana
22v-23r	Blank pages
289v-291v	Decretal of pope Gregory the Great concerning the Council of Rome (595)
292r-299r	St. Augustine's De haeresibus
299r-303r	Isidore de Seville's Etymologiae, book 8, chapter 5
303r-308v	Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii), chapters I-XXX
308v-310r	Excerpts of Pseudoisidore's False Decretals
310r	Excerpt of canon 14 of the Council of Mainz (847)
310v	Small collection of titulary excerpts of various councils, such as those at Ancyra, Neo-Caesarea and Carthage, and papal decretals, such as those of Gelasius, Innocent and Anastasius
311r	Excerpt of the Council of Rome (743) organized by pope Zachary, canon 15
311v	Excerpt of an epistle of pope Gregory III to St. Boniface
311v	Pope Gregory II's In constitutis Gregorii papae
311v	Excerpt of Isidore de Seville's Etymologiae, book 9, chapter 6
311v	Some probationes pennae from the middle to the end of the verso side
	Flyleaf and back cover

Literature

Bergmann, Stricker, Goldammer, Wich-Reif, Katalog Vol. 3 (2005), p. 1024-1025 n. 509; Bierbrauer, Die vorkarolingischen und karolingischen Handschriften (1990), p. 27; Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften (2004), p. 233 n. 3000; Bischoff, Schreibschulen Vol. 1 (1974), p. 100-101 and 215; Glauche, Katalog der lateinischen Handschriften (2000), p. 66-70; Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999), p. 15, 76, and 81; Mordek, Kirchenrecht und Reform (1975), p. 259; Reynolds, Law and Liturgy (1994), p. 115 (IV); Sdralek, ‘Handschriftlich-kritische Untersuchungen’ (1882), p. 192.

An edition of the Collectio XXX capitulorum (De ratione matrimonii) is currently being prepared by Sven Meeder, Gideon de Jong, and Bruno Schalekamp.