London, British Library, Royal 11.D.VII
| Library | London, British Library |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | Royal 11.D.VII |
| Century | saec. XII/XIII |
| Provenance | ? |
| European region of origin | Northern France |
| Collection | Ivo of Chartres, Decretum |
| Digital Images | Not online as of early 2025 |
| Description at | The Ivo of Chartres project |
| Author | Martin Brett |
London, British Library, Royal 11.D.VII is a copy of Ivo's Decretum (R in Brett's edition).
From Lincoln, in double columns, saec. XII/XIII.
Close to Cambridge, Parker Library, 19 = C (Landau 1984, 10), though certainly not a copy of it, since R lacks C’s early additions, does not always follow its errors and, more cogently, has a number of additions and substantial variants. R is the only known manuscript to include M’s 1. 306, with which it shares some other idiosyncracies in detail; occasionally R, A and M agree against CPVB in a reading which seems to have good early authority. There are also a number of other cases where R has been later adjusted by reference to a text close to one of the exemplars of M. Further, some of R’s peculiarities are not reported in any other copy of the complete text, but do occur in the Harley group of abbreviations (see London, British Library, Harley 3090), and occasionally in L. More ambiguously, both C and R have sometimes been similarly corrected.
In a few cases R alone inserts alternative readings in the text which look like either collations from elsewhere or glosses in its archetype. R, like C, is in very large format, and double columns, written on thick parchment, with coloured and decorated initials. The rubricated annotations, particularly in book VII, might suggest that it, or its ancestor, was the product of a monastic scriptorium. These nota marks have not been recorded Brett's Decretum edition with any consistent care, and are much more numerous than the apparatus suggests. The Lincoln cathedral library catalogue of c. 1160 - 1220 (cf Lincoln 193) lists a copy of Ivo’s Decreta as no. 15 among its earlier entries, and might be this book, though not necessarily so. Thomson, Catalogue of the manuscripts of Lincoln, 214, suggests the book may have been written in the West Country - possibly at Winchcombe.
For the sigla of Brett's edition, see the list in the article on Ivo's Decretum.
Links
For a list of manuscripts and a provisional edition, see Brett, Decretum.
Literature
Kéry, Collections p. 251
