Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis
The Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis (PA) consists of 37 propostions. It is the closest known parallel to the Dictatus papae. It was first discovered on fol. 165v of Avranches, BM, 146 and was assumed to be French. Hubert Mordek found two more copies in Pistoia, Archivio Capitolare del Duomo, C. 135 (PB; see [1]) and Venezia, BN Marciana, lat. IV. 48. Mordek sees this as an indication that it originated in Italy. A fourth copy has been found by Myron Wojtowytsch in the early 12th century Collectio Casinensis in Montecassino, Archivio e Biblioteca dell’Abbazia, 216. This may represent the earliest surviving exemplar. In any case, as Horst Fuhrmann points out, the „Holprigkeit“ of the texts is an indication that it could not have been composed at the papal court.
Literature
Hubert Mordek, Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis. Ein zweiter Dictatus papae?, DA 28 (1972) edited the Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis on pp. 126–132. See Friedrich Kempf, Ein zweiter Dictatus papae? Ein Beitrag zu Depositionsanspruch Gregors VII, AHP 13 (1975), pp. 119–139. See also Mordek, Dictatus papae e Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis. Intorno all’idea del primato pontificio di Gregorio VII, Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia 28 (1974), pp. 1–22. See also Horst Fuhrmann, Papst Gregor VII. und das Kirchenrecht zum Problem des Dictatus papae, Studi Gregoriani 13 (1989), pp. 123–147. – For the copy in the Ms Montecassino 216 see Myron Wojtowytsch, Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis. Bemerkungen zu einer bisher unbeachteten Überlieferung, DA 40 (1984), pp. 612–621. Fowler-Magerl, Clavis, pp. 158-159.
Categories
- Proprie auctoritates apostolice sedis is a collection with two keys of which only PA is used in the database.
- key is PA (and PB)
- belongs to Dictatus papae group
- very small (less than 100 canons) collection
- from Italy?
- saec. XI?
