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Three Decretal Collections before Compilatio IV: Pragensis, Palatina I, and Abrincensis II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

C. R. Cheney*
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Extract

This paper concerns three small collections of decretals of Innocent III, two of which have been named and briefly described in print by Professor Stephan Kuttner, who has kindly brought the third to my notice.

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Institute of Research and Study in Medieval Canon Law: Bulletin for 1959
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Copyright © Fordham University Press 

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1 See Kuttner, , Repertorium 308 for Palatina I, and ‘Johannes Teutonicus, das vierte Laterankonzil u. die Compilatio quarta,’ in Miscellanea Giovanni Mercati V (Studi e Testi 125; 1946) 622 for Pragensis. For my study of the collections I have used photostats and microfilms in the possession of the Institute of Research and Study in Medieval Canon Law by the kind arrangement of the Director.Google Scholar

2 Lehmann, P. gave a brief account in ‘Mitteilungen aus Handschriften III,’ in Sb. Akad. München (1931–32), Heft 6 pp. 21–22, where the canonistic contents are described as ‘Compil. IV.’ (fols. 2r-23v) and ‘Formulae litterarum’ (fols. 23v-45r). Professor Kuttner provided a more accurate description of this section in Misc. Mercati 622 n.22.Google Scholar

3 43–44 are brought under one title, 46 is divided into two. Google Scholar

4 Only no. 20 has a date, and that is garbled. See notes to concordance, below, p. 477. Google Scholar

5 See Kuttner, ‘Eine Dekretsumme des Johannes Teutonicus,’ ZRG Kanon. Abt. 21 (1932) 141–89; idem, Repertorium 81–92, where it is shown that although the glosses as a whole are not the work of Johannes, they owe much to him. This deserves to be remembered when the affinities of Pal. I with Comp. IV are considered, below.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 See below, notes to concordance, Abrin. 33. Google Scholar

7 Singer, H., ‘Neue Beiträge …,’ Sb. Akad. Vienna 171 i (1913). For a partial description of the manuscript see pp. 74–80. Singer does not notice our brief collection.Google Scholar

8 Cf. Kuttner, , Repertorium 264.Google Scholar

9 Cf. ibid. 417–8; Traditio 1.299 n. 40; Kuttner, ‘Réflexions sur les brocards des glossateurs,’ Mélanges Joseph de Ghellinck, S.J. (Gembloux 1951) 779–82. Google Scholar

10 I have had no opportunity of making a personal examination of the manuscript, but the microfilm shows that fols. 119–126 form a separate quire or quires, smaller in size than the surrounding leaves. Google Scholar

11 Cf. note to Abrin. II 31 below. Google Scholar

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17 Here I speak of the collections, not of the particular manuscripts, which may have been copied at a later date. We may be pretty sure that the Prague MS, at least, is a ‘fair copy’ of a pre-existent collection. Google Scholar

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21 For the contents of Compilatio IV, see Friedberg's edition, pp. xxxiii-iv, correcting his references to Potthast from 495 to 4195, 1806 to 3663, 1523 to 4523, 4580 to 4577, and adding 2360 (3.3.1), 5022 (2.10.1), 5025 (3.1.1), 4143 (5.14.1), 4379 (4.3.2), 4873 (1.2.4). The following letters which occur in Comp. IV come from the years chiefly covered by Prag. and yet are not found in Prag.: 3360, 3886, 3916, 4143, 4312, 4337, 4360, 4400, 4523, 4587, 4598, 4603, 4628, 4722, 4820, 4847. The ‘core’ of letters of the 12th and 13th years include all in Comp. IV except 3886, 3916, 4143. Google Scholar

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23 Disregarding no. 32, which is in Comp. III. Google Scholar

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28 This hypothesis does not depend on taking one side or the other in the dispute over the nature of Innocent Ill's registers which Friedrich Bock has recently revived with such force in his ‘Studien zu den Originalregistern Innocenz’ III (Reg. Vat. 4–7A),’ Archiualische Zeitschrift 51 (1955) 329–64. I do not think that Bock's arguments for late composition of the registers, between 1213 and 1215, can stand against the objections of various other ex perts in this field, especially Walther Holtzmann, in Deutsches Archiv 12 (1956) 231–2, Friedrich Kempf, ‘Zu den Originalregistern Innocenz’ III: eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Friedrich Bock,’ Quellen u. Forschungen aus ital. Archiven und Bibliotheken 36 (1956) 86–137, and Othmar Hageneder, ‘Die äusseren Merkmale der Originalregister Innocenz’ III,’ Mitteilungen des Instit. für österreichische Geschichtsforschung 65 (1957) 296–339; but the picture which Bock gives of a chancery cluttered up with drafts and copies may have some bearing on the decretal collections even though it does not explain the genesis of the registers.Google Scholar

29 Cf. Singer, H., ‘Die Dekretalensammlung des Bern. Compostell. ant.,’ Sb. Akad. Wien 171 ii (1914) 24, Kuttner, S., ‘La réserve papale du droit de canonisation,’ RHD4 17 (1938). 198 n. 5, R. von Heckel, ‘Die Dekretalensammlungen des Gilbertus u. Alanus,’ ZRGKan. Abt. 29 (1940) 160, Hageneder, O., loc. cit. 297 and especially Fr. Kempf, Die Register Innocenz III (Misc. Historiae Pontificiae 9 [18]; Rome 1945) 95–101 and ‘Zu den Originalregistern,’ loc. cit. 102–4.Google Scholar

30 Pal. I 15, of 18 August 1212. Part of this letter was dropped before it reached Prag., Abrin. II, and Comp. IV. Google Scholar

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19 Abrinc. II c.9 has no ascription for no. i, but the fact that the collection is otherwise exclusively of Innocentian decretals suggests that this was copied from a text ascribed to Innocent.Google Scholar

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