Collectio LXXII capitulorum

The Collectio LXXII capitulorum, which is entitled Capitula sanctorum canonum, survives only in the Ms Rome, Bibliotheca Vallicelliana Tome XVIII (SF). It uses the Herovalliana indirectly by way of the 9th-century copy in the Ms Bamberg, StB Patr. 101. The material sources are few: the Canones Apostolorum, the „canon Romanorum“, excerpts from letters of popes Siricius, Innocent I, Zosimus, Leo I, Gelasius I and Gregory I, canons from Greek, African and Spanish councils, and a few patristic texts. The compiler of the Collectio IX librorum in the Ms Vat. lat. 1349, in turn, found Herovalliana texts in the Collectio LXXII capitulorum. Hubert Mordek has established that the wide circulation of some Herovalliana texts can be explained by their use in the Collectio IX librorum which, in turn, was used by the compiler of the widely circulating Collectio V librorum.

On the Collectio LXXII capitulorum, see Mordek, Herovalliana, pp. 235–236. Idem, Kirchenrecht und Reform, p. 135. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, pp. 176– 177.