Durham, Cathedral Library, B.IV.17
| Library | Durham, Cathedral Library |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | B.IV.17 |
| Century | saec. XIIin |
| Provenance | Durham Cathedral |
| European region of origin | unknown |
| Collection | Burchard abbreviation |
| Digital Images | durham.ac.uk |
| Description at | durham.ac.uk |
| Author | Christof Rolker |
Durham, Cathedral Library, B.IV.17 is a Burchard abbreviation copy augmented with Seligenstadt (Jasper's D). It is listed among the "Order of Worms, Type B: German Group of Manuscripts" manuscripts by Pokorny in Kéry.
Codicology
Prov. Durham Cathedral; Parchment; 173 folios; long lines; saec. XIIin. Initials (2-3 lines high) alternating in red, blue, red, green. Chapter numbers, rubrics, and inscription all in the main text in red by the same hand (though chapter numbers are missing fol. 11r-16v). Note that the material after Burchard (up to and including the London 1108 canons) was written by this hand too (Pokorny).
Contents
fol. 1r-3 Two letters of Ivo of Chartres
fol. 4r-165v Abbreviated Liber decretorum (beginning Multis iam sepe diebus familiaritas, i.e. omitting the very beginning of the preface including Burchard's name; this together with Ivo's letters might explain the much later Decreta Ivonis on fol. 1r). As Pokorny discovered, fol. 135v-152v contain instead of Burchard's book 19 various penitential materials, some capitularies, and (at the very end) a series of canons De eruditione presbiterorum (which goes back to one of the sources behind Benedict the Levite's False Capitularies).
fol. 165v-166v Admonitio synodalis
fol. 166v-168v Council of Seligenstadt (praefatio and cc. 1-20; A version)
fol. 168r Council of Trebur, Gregory I/Boniface forgeries (JE †1336 and JE †1996); JL 4505 (Alexander II) and JL 3443 (catalogue) from the Collectio Britannica (Jasper)
fol. 169r Council of London 1108
fol. 170r-173r Additions by a later hand: Tituli cardinalium Romanorum, De Constantino imperatore, Council of Tours 1163
The Burchard abbreviation
According to Pokorny, the Durham abbreviation, not known from any other manuscript, contains roughtly three quarters of the Liber decretorum. The preface is lacking, books 1, 8, and 15 are preserved completely, book 19 has been replaced by different penitential material, all other books have been abbreviated by omitting roughly one in four canons. While book 19 has been replaced and there are additions after book 20, the Durham abbreviation contains none of the additions within individual books, and specifically none of the additions so typical for the Italian tradition. The omission of the preface, the rare Tribur materials, but also specific variant readongs link the Durham abbreviation to Saint-Omer, BM, 194 und Reg. lat. 979; however, the Durham manuscript lacks the Hammerstein genealogy found in the two continental copies. It does not contain an arbor consanguinitatis, either.
Literature
Kéry, Collections pp. 135 ("saec. XI"), 137, 145.- Pokorny, Eine neue Quelle pp. 452-456.- Rolker, Letters p. 112 n. 143.- Jasper, MGH Conc. 8 p. 18 (bibliography), 34.- Rolker, Canon Law (online) p. 35 n. 72.
