Saint-Omer, BM, 194

Library	Saint-Omer, BM
Shelfmark	194
Century	saec. XI2/2
Provenance	Saint-Omer
European region of origin	Northern France
Collection	Burchard of Worms, Liber decretorum
Digital Images	arca.irht.cnrs.fr (from microfilm)
Digital Images 2	bibliotheque-numerique.bibliotheque-agglo-stomer.fr
Digital Images 3	bibliotheque-numerique.bibliotheque-agglo-stomer.fr
Description at	data.biblissima.fr
Description at 2	arca.irht.cnrs.fr
Description at 3	archive.org (CGM)
Author	Christof Rolker

Saint-Omer, BM, 194 is a Burchard copy augmented with Seligenstadt (Jasper's S₁). Closely related to Reg. lat. 979

Codicology

Prov. Saint-Omer cathedral; Parchment; 129 folios; two columns; French; saec. XI^2/2. Modest decoration (two-line initials, rubrics, and canon numbers in red). Physically incomplete the beginning. Quire numbers at the bottom of fol. 6v, 14v, and 22v suggest the manuscript is composed of quateriones and lacks only the first folio. (The CGM reports that the first folio was torn out.)

Contents

The Liber decretorum begins with an incomplete capitulatio to the first book on what is now fol. 1. The first quire appears to be a quaternio with the first folio missing.

Kapitel	fol.	Kennzeichen	Literatur
	fol. 1r	Incomplete capitulatio to book one (beginning with rubric to BU01.080)
	fol. 127ra-127vb	Admonitio synodalis
	fol. 127vb-128ra	Seligenstadt (praefatio and cc. 1-20; A version)
	fol. 128v	Council of Trebur 1035 and Hammerstein genealogy
	fol. 127ra-127vb	Admonitio synodalis
	fol. 129v	empty
I.21	fol. 3rb-3va	Short version (see editio princeps fol. 3rb): Cur non perpendit, quia benedictio illi in maledictionem converitur? Et alibi. Dolens inquit […].	Fowler-Magerl, Fine Distinctions pp. 147–149; Fransen, Montpellier p. 306; Fransen, Valeur p. 6; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 22–23, 33
I.23	fol. 3va	No addition after c. 23.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 306
I.234	fol. 18rb	The last canon of book one (c. 2349 is immediatels followed by the capitulatio to book two (Incipiu<n>t capitula .II. libri), with no break, gap or change of hand.	Dusil, Wissensordnungen p. 257 n. 258
II.18 to 24	fol. 20vb	The sequence of canons is that of the editio princeps, c. 23 is not displaced.	Fransen, Montpellier pp. 301, 307; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 33–34; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten p. 135
End of book II	fol. 30ra
III.15	fol. 32rv (detail)	No addition after c. 15 (see fol. 58r of the editio princeps).	Fransen, Montpellier p. 306; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 44–45
End of book III		Is there a synodal order added after book three? The most common one is Schneider's Ordo 5 but there is considerable variety, as Schneider's discussion of the individual ordines makes clear.	Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 6–7, 14; Schneider MHG Ordines pp. 31-37; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 43; Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 41–45
VIII.38		While "German" copies (and Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, 3777) have the complete chapter, many deteriores break off with cohabitare tecto, followed by spatium or not. Sometimes, the missing text is added by a later hand; sometimes, c. 38 is merged with c. 49, or followed directly by c. 50.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 303–304; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 9–10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
VIII.49-50		Deteriores copies typically lack cc. 39-48; c. 49 may be incomplete or missing altogether. Sometimes, the two fragmentary canons cc. 38 and 49 are merged into one (grammatically disturbed) canon.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 303–304; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 9–10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
XII.9		In the deteriores copies, c. 9 ends with similiter peniteat. Sin autem (note that in copies like London, BL, Cotton Claudius C.vi, the sin autem is missing too).	Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten pp. 137-138, 155
XII.10-20		Most copies which break off in c. 9 with sin autem also lack cc. 10-20.	Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53; Gneckow, Abhängigkeiten pp. 137-138, 155
XII.29		The canon is transmitted in a number of variants: The phrase et post paululum is sometimes replaced by other words de iepte discernens What is the wording between asserendi copia profluus and hęc in suis narrat affectibus? What is the wording between in malis promissis rescinde fidem and quod incaute novisti non facias. (One Italian branch here reads eloquentię fructu fecundus).	Fransen, Montpellier p. 304; Fransen, Tradition pp. 116–117; Fransen, Valeur pp. 12–13, 15–18; Hoffmann/Pokorny, Dekret pp. 61, 63–64
XIX.108		In deteriores copies, book 19 ends here.	Fransen, Montpellier pp. 304–305; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 10–11, 19; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
XX.57		In deteriores copies, book 20 ends with c. 57. Sometimes the missing canons are added by a later hand and/or other additions are found here, including JE †1996, JE 1362, and JK 744.	Fransen, Montpellier p. 305; Fransen, Valeur pp. 2, 11; Galli/Rolker, Destroyed pp. 20, 49–53
After book 20		The canons of Seligenstadt are found in several Burchard copies, most commonly after the last book of the Liber. Jasper has disinguished two recensions, see his account in MGH Conc. 8.	Rolker, Letters p. 112.- Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 pp. 24-26.

Literature

Kéry, Collections pp. 135-137; Rolker, Letters p. 112 n. 143; Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 pp 23 (with bibliography), 34