Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 442
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- MS 442
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- 1000 - 1199
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- Latin
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 442: Canon Law Collection
- Canon Law Collection
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Summary: This manuscript contains a miscellaneous canon law collection, made circa 1100 or in the early twelfth century on the Continent, probably at Arras, Thérouanne, or somewhere in the region of North France. It contains 650 canons of a miscellaneous variety, perhaps derived from a 'long version' of pseudo-Isidore's Decretals. Its small size suggests that it might have been someone's personal working collection. It seems to end incomplete as it stands, suggesting that there were originally more than ten quires in the manuscript. Parker, or one of his circle, wrote "por" on the first page, perhaps a clue to its provenance; James noted that this mark is also found in CCCC MS 323 and the second volume of CCCC MS 308, but neither of these has recorded provenance before Parker.
Contents :
1-168 - Canon Law Collection
rubric: (1) Epistola Alcuini levite ad imperatorem Karolum
incipit: (1) O rex augusto clarissime dignus honore...Mens pia permandet semper amare deum
Note: (P. L. CI 14)
Note: These lines occur at the end of the Preface to Alcuin's work de fide S. Trinitatis
rubric: (1) Quod omnia per Christum sint. ipse uero nonfactus sed natus sit
incipit: (1) In principio fecit deus celum et terram in christo
Note: (Alcuin de fide S. Trin. II xiv)
rubric: (1) De unitate Trinitatis et Trinitate unitatis
incipit: (1) Teneamus igitur firmissime patrem et filium
rubric: (2) Quod deus ubique totus sit potestate naturali
rubric: (2) Quare dicatur deus in celo magis habitare quam in terra
rubric: (2) Quomodo dicatur filius in euangelio nescire diem iudicii
Note: Extracts from Geronimus p. 3, Julianus Toletanus p. 4 etc. Ioh. Chrysostom p. 8, Aug. p. 9, etc.
rubric: (12) Quod finito iudicio incipiet esse celum novum et terra noua
incipit: (12) Ut ait beatus Augustinus peracto finitoque iudicio
explicit: (12) figura enim preterit non natura
rubric: (12) Explicit de futuro seculo
Note: (Then, without break)
rubric: (12) Hec damaso papae scribit aurelius ipse
incipit: (12) Beatissimo pape damaso aurelius Carthaginensis episcopus
rubric: (13) Rescriptum damasi pape ad ipsum
Note: Extracts from Canons of Councils and from Fathers (Aug., Jeron., Greg., Isidore, etc.: the latest are Bede and Rabanus Maurus quoted on pp. 53, 74 and 134). They begin with a paragraph
incipit: (14) Canones generalium conciliorum a temporibus constantini ceperunt
rubric: (14) Que sint rata concilia
incipit: (14) Quatuor autem principalia
rubric: (15) Ex concilio bonefacii pape qui iiiitus a beato Gregorio fuit
incipit: (15) Sunt nonnulli stulti dogmatis
rubric: (16) Ysodorus in sinonimis de voto
rubric: (17) Ex canone apostolorum de ordinando episcopo
rubric: (17) Item de sacrisicio (!) domini
rubric: (17) Item de fideiussioribus (!) clericorum
rubric: (17) Ex concilio Cartaginensi habita ab episcopis xcvi kal. Sept.
rubric: (17) Innocentius in epistola ad Decentium
rubric: (17) Idem ad Ruffum et Eusebium episcopos, etc.
Note: On p. 25 begins a series of quotations from the False Decretals
rubric: (25) Incipit decreta Clementis pape
incipit: (25) Si qui ex fratribus negotia habent inter se
Note: The subjects of the extracts are not marked off by rubrics. The last appear to deal with the treatment of errors in doctrine: after two from Popes Zosimus and Caelestinus follows
rubric: (161) Ieronimus de membris domini nostri
incipit: (161) Omnipotens deus pater et filius et spiritus sanctus unus est atque trinus unus uidelicet in natura trinus in personis
Note: Ending
explicit: (168) sine sono uocis uel quolibet strepitu. occulte in mentibus sanctorum uoluntatem suam atque rectum inspirare siue futura
Note: Opera ed. Martianay V 120, P. L. XLII 1199
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