The collections in the Ms Milan, Ambrosiana A. 46 inf.

The manuscript A. 46 inf. was copied at the end of the 9th century at Reims. An entry on fol. 15r indicates that it belonged to the Benedictine monastery of San Dionigi at Milan in the 15th century. It contains four separate collections none of which appears elsewhere. Each of the first two collections is divided into two books. The others are not divided. The capitularies are not in the same sequence in the manuscript as the collections. Fol. 3r–3v contains a capitulary for the excerpts from the Enchiridion of St. Augustine in the first book of the second collection. Fol. 3v–6r contains the rubrics for the other canons in that collection, which are entitled: ex opusculis et institutis catholicorum patrum breviter excerpta. 67 Fol. 9r–11v contains the capitulary of the first book of the first collection. It is entitled: Capitula libri sequentis. Sequentis here is a correction in red for primi. Fol. 11v–15r and 130v contain the capitulary of the second book of the same collection. The texts of the first collection (ME) are found on folio 15v–85v. The sixth quire (between what is now fol. 48 and 49) is missing. This means that the beginning of the second book of the first collection is missing. The remark in the capitulatio: capitula haec non et xx. in libro desiderantur. The first book contains 185 chapters and the second originally contained 209. The compiler made use of excerpts from the collection of Cresconius and from the Herovalliana and Dacheriana and from Remedius of Chur. Titulus is often instead of capitulum as is the case in the earliest of these collections. From canon 2. 33 onward numerous canons from the Greek councils have era instead of capitulum. This is taken from the Herovalliana. Klaus Zechiel-Eckes has identified the version of Cresconius used as that which circulated in northeastern France (in the diocese of Liège). The compiler also used the capitularies of Ansegis and Benedictus Levita, De raptoribus of Hincmar of Reims and a letter of pope Nicholas I to Charles the Bald concerning the conflict between Hincmar and Rothad (JE 2783). The compiler also used the commentary of Florus of Lyon to the Constitutiones Sirmondianae. The collection begins with the election and consecration of bishops. It places emphasis on the learnedness of bishops, which would be characteristic of collections from Reims through the 11th century. It deals with the other ecclesiastical grades, with synods, with judgment and with communion and baptism. The second book deals with the accusation procedure and the reparation of the lapsed. It ends with the possessions of the church and with demes.

The second collection (MF) is on fol. 86r–130v. The twelfth quire (between what is now folio 88 and 89) is missing, which means that much of the first book is missing. The collection deals with vices and penance and with monastic life and virgins. The collection contains texts from the Enchiridion of Augustine, extracts from the Dacheriana including its preface and extracts from the Quadripartitus, especially from book four. The third collection (MG), on fol. 131r–151r, contains excerpts from the capitulary of Ansegis (fol. 136r–139r) and a block of texts from the Dacheriana (fol. 141v–142r), the fourth collection (MH), on fol. 152r–156r, contains excerpts from the epitome of the Breviary of Alaric made in the 8th century in the Loire valley by a certain Aegidius. 68

Literature

For a description of the manuscript and the collections in it, see Mordek, Bibliotheca capitularium, pp. 233–240 and Gerhard Schmitz, MGH Capit. N. S. 1.177–182. For the first collection see Paul Fournier, Un groupe de recueils canonique inédits du Xe siècle (Troyes, 1406; Bibliothèque nationale, Latin 2449; Ambrosienne, A.46.inf.), Annales de l’Université de Grenoble 11 (1899), pp. 373– 386. See Zechiel-Eckes, Die Concordia canonum des Cresconius, pp. 242–245 and pp. 285–290. For the first two collections see Kerff, Der Quadripartitus, pp. 70–71. For use by the redactor of the B version of the collection of Anselm of Lucca see Klaus Zechiel-Eckes, Eine Mailänder Redaktion der Kirchenrechtssammlung Bischof Anselms II. von Lucca (1073–1086), ZRG Kan. 81 (1995), pp. 130–147. – Kéry, Collections, pp. 178–179.

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• saec IX
• from Northern France (Reims)
• Entry should be split in four entries