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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 130: Collectio Lanfranci

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 130: Collectio Lanfranci

Description

Alternative title
Corpus Canonum
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 222 + 2
Date created
[ca. 1000 - 1199]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
46 lines to a page
Height (mm)
330
Width (mm)
215
Collation
1 flyleaf, I(8)-XV(8) XVI(6) XVII(8)-XXVIII(8): 1 flyleaf.
Writing
in a very beautiful clear round minuscule, by several scribes
Foliation
ff. a-b + i + 1-57 + 57a + 58-61 + 61a + 62-220 + ii + c-d
Provenance
On f. 222v the beginning of the decretal of Gregory VII which is on f. 123r. Below this (xvi) T. C. C. with considerable spaces between the letters. Whether this stands for Thomas Cranmer, Cantuar. I do not know. I believe this book was at least written at Canterbury, and I rather incline to attribute it to St Augustine's, on the strength of the script. The items enumerated above (on ff. 120v-122v) occur in the undoubtedly Canterbury (Christ Church) Decreta at Trinity College B. 16. 44, which was brought by Lanfranc from Bec. I am not sure that some of the marginalia near the beginning are not in the hand of Bale.
2 fo.
modi neglegant

Abstract/Contents

Summary
CCCC MS 130 contains a collection of pseudo-Isidorean decretals known as the Collectio Lanfranci. It is one of two early versions of the material (the other being in Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 74) probably copied from Trinity College, Cambridge MS B.16.44 which came from Lanfranc's see of Bec in Normandy. The Corpus manuscript was generally believed to have been produced in Canterbury in the early twelfth century, but although the date is still agreed upon, the location of its production is no longer certain.
Contents
Collectio Lanfranci

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xi-xii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dw649pz8668/MS_130.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:dh477pw5691/130.pdf
Contains
  • Collectio Lanfranci. ir-220r
    Nasmith
    Corpus Canonum. ir-220r
    Note
    Epistolae et decreta pontificum Romanorum a Clemente ad Gregorium VII
    (ir) The lower part of the first flyleaf is cut off. On the verso (iv), in a large early hand, is Canones. In a small later hand: Corpus Canonum
    (1r) The upper part of f. 1r is cut off: a bit of the title, in red capitals, is left
    (1r) Text begins in the letter of Clement to James
    Incipit
    (1r) Notum tibi facio domine quia petrus qui uere fidei merito
    Note
    There are marginalia in two hands of cent. xvi early or xv late. On ff. 7v, 9r, are initials in red, yellow and purple, edged with green. The subsequent initials are generally in single colours. On f. 59r is another more elaborate initial
    After Decreta Gregorii Iunioris (De illicitis coniugiis) follow
    Rubric
    (115v) Ex grecis et latinis canonibus et sinodis romanis atque decretis presulum ac principum romanorum hec capitula sparsim collecta sunt. et ingilramno mediomatrice urbis episcopo rome a beato papa adriano tradita. sud die tertio decimo kalendarum octobrium indictione nona. quando pro sui negotii causa agebatur I.
    Incipit
    (115v) Dei ordinationem accusat
    Note
    lxxviii ends
    Explicit
    (118v) uel permiserit uiolandam
    Rubric
    (118v) Sinodale decretum Nicholai
    Incipit
    (119r) Nicholaus ep. ... atque benedictione gaudere
    Rubric
    (119v) Cuius supra
    Incipit
    (119v) Domnus papa Nicholaus sinodo in basilica constantiniana presidens dixit. Erga symoniachos
    (119v) Nichilominus auctoritate apostolica
    Explicit
    (119v) quasi iam omnino intronizatus sit
    Rubric
    (119v) lusiurandum quod in eadem synodo fecit beringarius
    Incipit
    (119v) Ego beringerius indignus
    Rubric
    (120r) Hanc epistolam accepit Lanfrancus cum monachus et prior esset Becci
    Incipit
    (120r) Nycholaus etc. Satis desideratam uestram
    Rubric
    (120r) Hanc accepit cum Cadomensi cenobio preesset
    Incipit
    (120r) Alexander etc. lanfranco utriusque sapientie gratia referto
    (120v) Anno ab incarnacione domini sempiterni principii millesimo septuagesimo nono
    Note
    (120v) Council under Gregory VII with oath of Beringarius
    Explicit
    (120v) qui per eius doctrinam ab ea recesserant
    Note
    The first column of 123r left blank. A decretal of Gregory VII
    (121r) Sanctorum patrum uestigiis inherentes occupies the rest of the leaf (in 2 columns on verso)
    See on the above, Böhmer, Die Fälschungen Lanfranks, 1902, p. 62 note
    Rubric
    (122r) Incipiunt capitula in canones qui dicuntur apostolorum
    Note
    (red capitals)
    (122v) Text with fine initial in red and green
    (122v) Canones 41, qui dicuntur apostolorum
    (124r) CONCILIA GRAECA. Symbolum Nicenum Concilium Nicenum, Can. 20. Anciranum, Can. 24. Neocassariense, Can. 14. Gangrense, Can. 20. Sardicense, Can. 21. Antiochenum, Can. 25. Laodicense, Can. 60. Constantinopolitanum, Regul. 3. Symbolum Constantinopolitanum. Concilium Ephesinum I. Can. 16. Chalcedonense, Can. 27. Constitutio fidei ejusdem concilii. Symbola Nicena et Constantinopolitana. Edictum Marciani pro confirmatione ejusdem concilii. Regula Attici de epistola formata
    The Greek Councils end with Regula Attici Constantinopolitani Ep. de epistola formata (giving the Greek alphabet)
    CONCILIA LATINA
    Rubric
    (139v) Huc usque grecorum concilia. De hinc latinorum sequuntur
    Note
    (139v) AFRICANA. Concilium Cartaginense I. Can. 14 Cartaginense II. Can. 13. Cartaginense III. Can. 49. Cartaginense IV. Can. 105. Cartaginense V. Can. 15. Cartaginense VI. Can. 9. cum epistolis ad pontifices Romanos de canonibus Nicenis. Cartaginense VII. Can. 5. Milevitanum, Can. 26
    (147v) A clearly different scribe
    Rubric
    (152v) Huc usque Africe Concilia de hinc Gallie sequuntur
    Note
    (152v) GALLICANA. Concilium Arelatense I. Can. 24 Arelatense II. Can. 24. Arelatense III. Valetinum, Can. 6. Tauritanum, Can. 7. Regiense, Can. 6. Arausicanum, Can. 31. Vasense, Can. 9. Agatense, Can. 72. Aurelianense, Can. 27
    (156v) Former scribe resumes
    (161r) HISPANICA. Concilium Eliberitanum, Can. 79 Terraconense, Can. 12. Gerundense, Can. 10. Csesar-Augustanum, Can. 9. Hilerdense, Can. 16. Valentinum, Can. 6. Toletanum I. Can. 21. Toletanum II. Can. 5. Toletanum III. Can. 23. Toletanum IV. Can. 75. Toletanum V. Can. 9. Toletanum VI. Can. 19. Toletanum VII. Can. 7. Toletanum VIII. Can. 15. Toletanum IX. Can. 17. Toletanum X. Can. 6. Toletanum XI. Can. 16. Toletanum XII. Can. 13. Toletanum XIII. Can. 6. Bracarense I. Can. 42. Bracarense II. Can. 12.
    Canones collecti ex orientalium synodis per Martinum episcopum et concilium Bracarense excerpti et emendati; qui clericos spectant Can. 68, qui laicos Can. 16.
    Concilium Bracarense III. Can. 10. Hispalense I. Can. 2. Hispalense II. Can. 13
    Rubric
    (161r) Huc usque Gallie Concilia, de hinc (Ispanie) sequuntur
    Note
    At 166v, 182v and elsewhere are changes of scribes
    (216r) Conc. Hispalense II ends
    Explicit
    (216r) Honorius cordubensis ep. subscripsi
    Note
    Then follows
    (216r) Epistola Lanfranci Cantuar. ad episcopum Hibernian
    Incipit
    (216r) Lanfrancus ... uenerando hibernie ep. D. (Ep. 33)
    Explicit
    (216v) abrenunciandum eis decreuimus
    Note
    (217r) Catalogus pontificum Romanorum ad Calixtum II
    Rubric
    (217r) Catalogus Romanorum pontificum
    Note
    There are biographical notices of the three last, Paschal II, Gelasius II, Calixtus II, ending
    Explicit
    (219v) Cessauit autem episcopatus dies iii
    Note
    (219v) Catalogus imperatorum ad Tiberium anno 698
    Rubric
    (219v) De imperatoribus
    Note
    Octauianus Aug. Ann. vi. Notes persecutions etc. Ends
    Explicit
    (220r) Leontius ann. iii. Liberius de hinc quintum animi (annum) agit. Indiction. prima
    Note
    After a space, in a later hand
    Incipit
    (220r) Annus centenus millenus septuagenus Primus erat. primas. Cum ruit ense thomas (Cant. above)
    Note
    After a space, in the original hand
    Incipit
    (220r) Xenodochium id est locus uenerabilis in quo peregrini suscipiuntur etc.
    Note
    ending
    Explicit
    (220r) Brephrotrophium idest locus uenerabilis in quo infantes aluntur
TJames
361
Stanley
Under D. 2
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 130

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