Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library 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
Description
  • 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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