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Decretals of Innocent III in Paris, B.N. MS Lat. 3922A

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

C. R. Cheney
C. R. Cheney*
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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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The Paris manuscript, lat. 3922A of the Bibliothèque Nationale, contains an important group of legal works, written in the early part of the thirteenth century, some of which have in recent years interested historians of the canon law. One section (fols. 118v-126v) has not, to my knowledge, been described fully in print. In 1951, Dr. Walther Holtzmann, who had examined it some years before, kindly brought it to my notice. The bearing of this section on the questions posed by other parts of the volume cannot be thoroughly appreciated until the volume has been examined as a whole: for this we must await the description by Mme. Rambaud, conservateur au Cabinet des Manuscrits, who is engaged in cataloguing the canonistic manuscripts of the Bibliothèque Nationale. For the moment, an analysis of this section may have some value in throwing light on the methods of compilators and in discovering a few new or improved texts. The whole volume seems to emanate from the Anglo-Norman school and Rouen was probably its place of origin. The collection of decretals on fols. 148r-167v has therefore been suitably christened ‘Rotomagensis.’ It may be convenient to style it ‘Rotomagensis I’; then the collection on fols. 211r-227v, based upon Compilatio I, may be called ‘Rotomagensis II,’ and the section with which this article is concerned becomes ‘Rotomagensis III.’

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Traditio , Volume 11 , 1955 , pp. 149 - 162
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1 The brief description of the MS (wrongly attributed to the fourteenth century) in Catalogus codicum mss. Bibliothecae Regiae 3 (Paris 1744) 528 is wholly inadequate. Portions are described by Kuttner, S., Repertorium der Kanonistik (1140-1234) (Studi e Testi 71; Città del Vaticano 1937) 295, 297, 313, by Holtzmann, Walther, ‘Über eine Ausgabe der päpstlichen Dekretalen des 12. Jahrhunderts,’ Nachrichten Akad. Göttingen 1945.23-5 and ‘Das Ende des Bischofs Heinrich II. von Chur,’ Zeitschrift für schweizerische Geschichte 29 (1949) 151-2, and by Lefebvre, Ch., ‘L'école canonique rouennaise de la fin du xiie siècle: la collection dite de Rouen et ses rapports avec les collections contemporaines,’ Revue historique de droit français et étranger 4e série 30 (1953) 324-5 and ‘Collectio Francofurtana,’ DDC 5.878-83.Google Scholar

2 I am obliged to Mme. Rambaud for expediting the supply of microfilms of this MS from the Bibliothèque Nationale.Google Scholar

3 By Dr. Holtzmann. It had been named ‘Parisiensis III’ by Kuttner, Dr., Repert. 297, after its present location.Google Scholar

4 Described as ‘Parisiensis IV’ by Kuttner, , Repert. 313.Google Scholar

5 Other decretal-collections will be referred to as follows: the Gregorian Decretals (described as X) and Compilationes III and IV (C.III and C.IV) in Friedberg's editions; Gilbert (Gilb.) and Alan (Al.) in the first, Weingarten (W) recension, as analyzed by von Heckel, R., ‘Gilbertus-Alanus: Die Dekretalensammlungen des Gilbertus und Alanus nach den Weingartener Handschriften,’ Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanon. Abt. 29 (1940) 116–357, and Alan in the second, Vercelli (A) recension, as analyzed by Kuttner, S., ‘The Collection of Alanus: a Concordance of its Two Recensions,’ Rivista di storia del diritto italiano 26 (1953 [1955]) 37–53; Rainerius of Pomposa (Rain.) as printed in PL 216.1173-1272; Lucensis (Luc.) as printed in Mansi's edition of BaluzeE., Miscellanea 3 (Lucca 1762) 367-391; Abrincensis (Abrinc.) and Bernardus Compostellanus (Bern.) as analyzed by H. Singer in Sb. Akad. Vienna 171 (1913-14).Google Scholar

The annual registers of Innocent III (Reg.) are as printed in PL 214-5. Po. stands for Regesta pontificum Romanorum, ed. PotthastA. (2 vols. Berlin 1874-75).

6 I have indicated in the notes which follow the concordance a few titles which do not correspond closely to those in the systematic collections.Google Scholar

7 Cf. the remarks of Friedrich Heyer in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung, Kanon. Abt. 4 (1914) 593.Google Scholar

8 E.g. Collectio Valentiennensis, Kuttner, , Repert. 307.Google Scholar

9 Heckel, 144. The letter ‘Pastoralis officii’ of 19 Dec. 1204 to the bishop of Ely (Po. 2350) is a fairly frequent addition to collections of earlier material (cf. Kuttner, , Repert. 300-11).Google Scholar

10 Collectio Palatina (Kuttner, , Repert. 308) offers a series of 15 letters in something approaching chronological order; all but the first (Po. 1806) range between 1 July 1209 and 18 Aug. 1212, and all but Po. 3872 and Po. 4006 are found in the registers.Google Scholar

11 See notes to concordance, below.Google Scholar

12 E.g., Al. W 2.4.3 (Heckel 163).Google Scholar

13 Rotom. III contains ten letters from Reg. 1, or about one quarter of those found in decretal-collections.Google Scholar

14 Holtzmann, , Zeitschrift für Schweiz. Gesch. 29.152 n. 18.Google Scholar

15 They are Rotom. III 3 and 6 (Rain. 15.4 and 20.3). I have not verified that these letters are in the text of Rain. in MS lat. 3922A.Google Scholar