Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 130

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  • Languages : Latin
  • Date of Origin :
  • Script :
    • in a very beautiful clear round minuscule, by several scribes
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 222 + 2
  • Dimensions :
    • 215 x 330
  • Codicological details :
    • 46 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i + 1-57 + 57a + 58-61 + 61a + 62-220 + ii + c-d
    • modi neglegant
    • 1 flyleaf, I(8)-XV(8) XVI(6) XVII(8)-XXVIII(8): 1 flyleaf.

Contents

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  • Résumé : 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.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin


    ir-220r - Collectio Lanfranci || Corpus Canonum

    Note : Epistolae et decreta pontificum Romanorum a Clemente ad Gregorium VII

    Note : (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

    Note : (1r) The upper part of f. 1r is cut off: a bit of the title, in red capitals, is left

    Note : (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

    Note : 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

    incipit : (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

    incipit : (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

    Note : (121r) Sanctorum patrum uestigiis inherentes occupies the rest of the leaf (in 2 columns on verso)

    Note : See on the above, Böhmer, Die Fälschungen Lanfranks, 1902, p. 62 note

    rubric : (122r) Incipiunt capitula in canones qui dicuntur apostolorum

    Note : (red capitals)

    Note : (122v) Text with fine initial in red and green

    Note : (122v) Canones 41, qui dicuntur apostolorum

    Note : (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

    Note : The Greek Councils end with Regula Attici Constantinopolitani Ep. de epistola formata (giving the Greek alphabet)

    Note : 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

    Note : (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

    Note : (156v) Former scribe resumes

    Note : (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.

    Note : Canones collecti ex orientalium synodis per Martinum episcopum et concilium Bracarense excerpti et emendati; qui clericos spectant Can. 68, qui laicos Can. 16.

    Note : 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

    Note : (216r) Conc. Hispalense II ends

    explicit : (216r) Honorius cordubensis ep. subscripsi

    Note : Then follows

    Note : (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

Provenance

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  • 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.

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