Pseudo-Remedius of Chur, Collectio canonum

A collection of slightly over 70 canons, consisting primarily of excerpts from the shorter version of the pseudoisidorian decretals (A2), was attributed by the historian Melchior Goldast in the early 17th century to bishop Remedius of Chur († circa 806). It is now generally accepted that the collection was compiled at Sankt Gallen or at Reichenau between 880 and the council of Tribur in 895. The compiler is now referred to as Pseudo-Remedius. He used, aside from the 61 pseudoisidorian forgery, a northern Italian collection of 36 excerpts from the letters of pope Gregory I. The collection of Pseudo-Remedius was copied and used in the 10th and early 11th centuries in the vicinity of Reims and in southern Germany.

There are two 9th century copies in the library of Sankt Gallen and four early copies associated with Freising. Two early copies are associated with Reims and Soissons and one with Hildesheim. Shortly after its compilation the collection was used at Reims for the first collection in two books of the Ms Milan, Ambrosiana A. 46 inf. This collection was brought at an early date to northern Italy and through it the collection of Pseudo-Remedius exerted an indirect influence on Italian collections. In the early 11th century Pseudo-Remedius was used at Freising by the compilers of the Collectio XII partium and at Worms by Burchard.

The present analysis (PS) is based on the edition of Herwig John.

Literature

For the edition see Herwig John, Collectio canonum Remedio Curiensi episcopo perperam ascripta (MIC Series B: Corpus Collectionum 2, Vatican City, 1976). For the fragment in the Ms Sankt Gallen 1398 see Hoffmann – Pokorny, Das Dekret, p. 76 n. 39. For the collection of letters of Gregory I see Jasper, The Beginning of the Decretal Tradition, p. 76. – Kéry, Canonical Collections, pp. 184–185.

See https://www.geschichtsquellen.de/werk/4180 for bibliography

Categories

• Clavis entries based on modern edition
• saec IXex
• Collection
• Key is PS
• Southern Germany (Reichenau? St Gall?)
• small (80 cc)
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