Collectio canonum in Celle, OLG, C. 8

Title	Collectio canonum in Celle, OLG, C. 8
Key	CE
Size	Medium (500 to 1000 canons)
Terminus post quem	1050
Terminus ante quem	1100
Century	saec. XII
Main author	Fowler-Magerl, Linda

A collection combining excerpts from the [[Collectio IV librorum] (= 4L) and Burchard‘s Liber decretorum is found in three manuscripts: Celle, Bibliothek des Oberlandesgerichts, C. 8, fol. 3r–80r; Paris, BnF, lat. 4376 and Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 72 J 10. The compiler used the version of the 4L with 138 canons in the 4th book. For the present analysis the copy in the Ms Celle (CE) was used. Canons 1.2.1–1.9.2, [122] missing in the Ms Celle, were supplied using the Den Haag copy (CG). The Paris copy begins with the end of canon 1.1.7. The canons from the end of 3.29 to the middle of 4.67 are also missing. In the Mss Celle and Paris the collection is divided in three books, each book with its own capitulatio. Following the end of the third book are 118 further canons, forming a kind of fourth book; these canons are without a capitulatio. The notation explicit is at the end of the 118th canon in the Ms Paris. In the Ms s’Gravenhage the collection is divided in two books.

The collection of Celle begins with an almost unbroken series of texts from the first three books of the 4L. CE 2.10 is the last text of the 4th book of the 4L: Omnino miramur (Reg. 9. 215, JE 1744). The collection also contains a further text from the augmented version of the 4L: Quod quidam frater de falsis capitulis. The rest of the collection contains excerpts from the Liber decretorum of Burchard.

Literature

For the Ms Celle see Stephan Kuttner, News of Canonical Collections, Traditio 14 (1958), p. 509. For the Ms Paris siehe John Gilchrist, The Manuscripts of the Canonical Collection in Four Books, ZRG Kan. 69 (1983), p. 64 n. 2. See also Hubert Mordek, Kanonistik und gregorianische Reform, in: Reich und Kirche vor dem Investiturstreit. Festschrift Gerd Tellenbach, ed. by Karl Schmid, Sigmaringen 1985, p. 66 n. 5. Detlev Jasper discovered the Ms s’Gravenhage in 1992. – Kéry, Collections p. 280–281.

Categories

• The key used in the database is CE, CG doesn't have separate entries
• medium (500 to 1000 canons) collection
• place?
• saec. XII