Engelberg 52 is a late eleventh-century handbook of canon law from
the circle of Bernold of Constance († 1100), an ardent champion
of Pope Gregory VII. It comprises various canonistic compilations:
the 'Collection in Seventy-Four Titles' (Collectio 74 titulorum
with the so-called 'Swabian Appendix' (Appendix svevica; two short
collections 'On Churches' (De ecclesiis) and 'On Illicit Unions'
(De illicitis coniunctionibus); the Pseudo-Gelasian decretal 'On
Books to be Received and not to be Received' (De libris recipiendis
et non recipiendis); the 'Canons of the Four Principal Councils'
prefaced by 'Adnotation I' (Adnotatio I; and the Epitome Hadriani
prefaced by 'Adnotation II' (Adnotatio II). All of these items can
also be found in two closely related manuscripts (St. Gallen,
Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 676, and Stuttgart,
Württembergische Landesbibliothek, HB.VI.107); but several appear
here in shorter, possibly less developed forms. Prefixed to the
whole is a catalogue of popes extending from Peter I to Leo IX with
the addition of Victor II. Though it acknowledges Henry III’s
role in the appointment of four popes (from Clement II to Victor
II), it was possibly the source of the papal catalogue that Bernold
attached to his Chronicle (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm
432, fols. 10r–12r).
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