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Alternative title

Ivonis Carnotensis Decretum

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 334 + 1

Date created

[ca. 1100-1199]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

double columns of 44 lines

Height (mm)

335

Width (mm)

238

Collation

1 flyleaf, 1(8)-27(8) (4 canc.) 28(8)-42(8) (wants 8).

Writing

in the characteristic Christ Church (Canterbury) hand

Foliation

ff. a-b + i + 1-334 + c-d

Provenance

At top of f. 1r (xiv) and elsewhere in the book: Decreta Yuonis de claustro ecclesie Christi Cantuar. On the right is the old mark . See Ancient Libraries, p. 52, no. 351.

Research

On a curious confusion (arising from this MS.) between Ivo and John Stone see W. G. Searle, Christ Church, Canterbury, Camb. Ant. Soc. p. xi etc.

On the Decretum, MSS. of which are rare, see P. Fournier Les Collections Canoniques attribuées à Yves de Chartres (Bibl. de L'École des Chartes 1897, p. 40). This copy is not mentioned.

Additions

On the flyleaf a list of Popes and durations of their reigns from Benedict I (574) to Honorius II (1124).

Another hand continues with names only from Innocent II (1130) to Honorius III (1216-27).

Summary

CCCC MS 19 contains a copy of Ivo of Chartres' (c. 1040-1115) Decretum (in 17 parts), an influential canon law collection. The version of the text in this manuscript was copied at Christ Church, Canterbury in around 1130 by a scribe whose hand has also been identified in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B. 3. 4 (83), Cambridge, UL MS Ff. 3. 29, and Oxford, Bodleian MSS Lat. misc. d. 13 and Lat misc. d. 30. It has recently been suggested that the absence of any later canonical material in this codex may indicate that it was a library copy of the Decretum rather than a working volume. It is also one of only two manuscripts (the other being Durham Cathedral Library MS B.IV.18) to preserve the 'Canterbury version' of the canons of the First Lateran Council of 1123.

Contents

Decretum (in 17 parts)

M.R. James Date

xii

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zb349rc7021/MS_19.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:tp828hp2758/19.pdf

Contains

• Ivo of Chartres, Decretum (in 17 parts). 1r-334v

  Author

  Ivo of Chartres

  Note

  Title in red capitals

  Rubric

  (1r) Incipit prologus domni luonis Carnotensis episcopi ante collectiones ecclesiasticarum regularum de conuenientia et dispensatione earundem

  Note

  (P. L. CLXI 47)

  Incipit

  (1r) Exceptiones ecclesiasticarum regularum partim ex epistolis romanorum pontificum

  Explicit

  (5r) quid in unaquaque parte sibi necessarium querere debeat

  Incipit

  (5r) Prima pars continet de fide etc.

  Explicit

  (5v) Septima decima pars continet speculatiuas sanctorum patrum sententias de fide caritate et spe

  Rubric

  (5v) De speculo Augustini

  Incipit

  (5v) Quis ignorat in scripturis sanctis idest legitimis

  Explicit

  (6r) prompta et aperta fastidiunt

  Note

  Space follows

  Rubric

  (6r) Que esse propria diuine trinitatis senserint catholici tractatores

  Incipit

  (6r) Omnes quos legere potui

  Explicit

  (6r) essentia quam greci usiam uocant

  Rubric

  (6r) Hec prima pars continet de fide etc.

  Incipit

  (6r) Credimus in unum deum

  Note

  (30r) Pars II
  (51v) Pars III
  (72r) Pars IV
  (91r) Pars V
  (132r) Pars VI
  (167v) Pars VII
  (182r) Pars VIII
  (206v) Pars IX (wrongly numbered X in headline: no number given in the rubric)
  (216v) Pars X
  (236r) Pars XI
  (247v) Pars XII
  (255r) Pars XIII (numbered XIV in headline)
  (262v) Pars XIV (XV)
  (273r) Pars XV (XVI)
  (288v) Pars XVI (XVII)
  (311r) Ending (the Right half of the leaf, blank, cut off)

  Explicit

  (311r) uel in aliud transferunt

  Note

  (312r) Pars XVII (unnumbered)

  Rubric

  (312r) Hec pars continet speculatiuas etc.

  Note

  (as above, in table)

  Incipit

  (312r) Tanta dignitas humane conditionis

  Note

  Ends

  Explicit

  (332v) locus uenerabilis in quo infantes aluntur

  Rubric

  (332v) Explicit liber. Deo gratias

  Note

  See also MS 94
  In a later hand

  Incipit

  (332v) (E)x concilio Triburiensi.Si quis in atrio ecclesie pugnam

  Note

  (3½ lines)
  In the first hand

  Rubric

  (333r) Iohannes EpiscopisAnselmo Lemonecine ecclesie

  Incipit

  (333r) Ad limina beatorum petri et pauli

  Note

  (case of a layman, Stephanus, baptizing his child, and being punished by divorce = Jaffe 3258. Collated by Hampe, Neues Archiv, XXII 668)

  Explicit

  (333r) aliquatenus separari debuissent

  Note

  In the hand of the first flyleaf
  (333v) Extracts from Councils
  Ex sinodo habita Rome a beato Eugenio pp. (MGH. Leges II App. 15, 35 Necessaria etenim)
  Also. Urbani II (Jaffe 5760). Paschalis II (Jaffe 6492). Calixti II habita Remis (A.D. 1119)
  The last 'ex decreto Eutychiani'

  Rubric

  (334v) Statuta concilii a Willelmo Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi....apud Westmonasterium... anno incarnation domini nostri Ihesu Christi M. C. XXVII Regni vero Henrici gloriosi regis anglorum xxvii

  Incipit

  (334v) Ecclesiae et ecclesiastica beneficia

  Explicit

  (334v) quam agninis uel cattinis nigris

  Note

  Confirmation of the above

  Incipit

  (334v) Henricus rex anglie archiepiscopis etc.

  Explicit

  (334v) Teste Rogero episcopo Salesberiensi et Gaufrido cancellario et Rannulfo comite cestrie apud lundoniam

  Note

  Another text in Wilkins Conc. I 408.

TJames

368

Stanley

Under D. 8

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 019

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