List of Liber Extra manuscripts

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
Revision as of 12:49, 4 December 2025 by Christof Rolker (talk | contribs) (added Norway)

Genesis of the present list

Martin Bretram over many years has traced down extant and lost copies of the Liber Extra. The most complete list he published was the 2014 version of his Signaturenliste. The current list is based on the Signaturenliste plus additional notes and corrections by Martin Bertram; all entries have been double-checked by Christof Rolker with the help of Jonas Jakob in 2024/25, a process that resulted in a few more corrections and additions.

The current version of the list

All known complete (or almost complete) copies of the Liber Extra can now be found in the Category:Liber Extra Gruppe I (678 entries as of 5 December 2025). In addition to these complete extant manuscripts, see also the Category:Liber Extra Gruppe II (45 entries) and Category:Liber Extra Gruppe III (46 entries) for larger fragments and lost (destroyed or currently unaccounted) manuscripts, respectively.

As always on the Clavis Wiki, these number of entries refers to shelfmarks, not codicological units; multi-volume copies may be listed under more than one shelfmark, if the holding library does so, and membra disiecta are each cited with their respective shelfmark.

A few notes on the categories:

Gruppe I

France

Paris

French libraries outside Paris (A-Z)

Germany

Munich

Other German libraries

Italy

Florence

Italian libraries outside Florence

United Kingdom

Libraries in London

Libraries outside London

Austria

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Libraries outside Vienna

Spain

Vatican City

USA and Canada

Poland

Belgium

Czech Republic

Sweden

Portugal

Switzerland

Luxembourg

Croatia

Netherlands

Russia

Denmark

Norway

Romania

Hungary

Gruppe II

Gruppe III