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- Record Id:
- 032-002109204
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002109204
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000040.0x000285
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059051170.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 11440
- Title:
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Two canon law compilations
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains two canon law texts and a tree diagram reflecting consanguinity rules. The first text is a collection concerning penance, which opens with De Penitentia Sive Medicus (About Penance or the Physician) by Burchard of Worms (d. 1025), followed by excerpts attributed to many other authorities. The other text is an abridged version of the Panormia, which, in turn, is an abbreviated and reworked version by an anonymous compiler of the Decretum (The Decretals) of Ivo of Chartres (d. 1115) (see Rolker, Canon Law (2010)).
Contents:
ff. 1r-72r: Burchard of Worms, Decretum Burchardi (The Decretals of Burchard), Book 19, De penitentia Sive Medicus or Corrector Burchardi, followed by excerpts from many different sources on penance from f. 36r onward, beginning ‘liber qui corrector vocatur et medicus qui correctiones corporum et animarum medicinas pleniter continet [...] Ex penitentiali Romano’.
ff. 73r-112r: The Panormia (abridged version), beginning ‘Exceptiones ecclesiasticarum regularum’.
f. 112v: A Tree of Consanguinity.
Decoration:
A diagram of the Tree of Consanguinity on f. 112v, decorated with foliate and architectural elements. Large initials in red and small initials in red or brown ink throughout the manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002109204
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002109204
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059051170.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1174
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 135 mm (text space: 190 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 112 (+1 unfoliated paper leaf at the beginning + 1 at the end); f. 10 is a parchment strip inserted between f. 9 and f. 11.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. 17th-century blind-tooled and gold-stamped brown leather binding, the gold-stamps at the centre (possibly containing bookplates) on the upper and lower boards have been scratched off, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum: ‘POENITENTIALE ROMANUM’.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France or Southern Netherlands.
Provenance:
The Premonstratensian abbey of Park in Louvain, in the 17th or 18th century: its pressmark ‘J. Theca XII’ on the inside upper cover; its binding stamp on the upper and lower cover, erased by Antoine-Ferdinand Geets (b. 1805), a Louvain bookseller, who obliterated all the provenance marks in Park Abbey’s manuscripts for the sale of their library: Louvain, 28 October, 1829, p. 38, no. 15 (Coppens, ‘The Incunabula of Parc Abbey’ (2010), p. 31).
John Cochran (19th century), London bookseller: his catalogue, A Second Catalogue of Manuscripts, London, 1837, no. 111 (see also the note on f. [i] recto: 'Cochran's Catalogue 1837 No. 111').
Purchased by the British Museum at Evans, 27 July 1838, lot 1290 (note on f. [i] recto) for £15.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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List of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1836-1840, 5 parts in 1 volume (London: Woodfall, 1843), III: 1838, p. 14.
Zachary Nugent Brooke, The English Church and the Papacy: From the Conquest to the Reign of John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931 repr. 1989), p. 245.
Robert Somerville, Pope Urban II's Council of Piacenza (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 44, 81, 84-85.
Lotte Kéry, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature, History of Medieval Canon Law, 1 (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999), p. 255.
Christian Coppens, ‘The Incunabula of Parc Abbey (Heverlee, Leuven)', De Gulden Passer, 88.2 (2010), pp. 23-70 [on Parc Abbey’s library, without a reference to this manuscript].
Emile Van Balberghe, Les manuscrits médiévaux de l'Abbaye de Parc: recueil d'articles, Documenta et Opuscula, 13 (Brussels: Ferraton and Van Balberghe, 1992), passim [on Parc Abbey’s library, without a reference to this manuscript].
Martin Brett, ‘Margin and Afterthought: the Clavis in Action’, in Readers, Texts, and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages: Studies in Medieval Canon Law in Honour of Linda Fowler-Magerl, ed. by Martin Brett and Kathleen G. Cushing (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 137-63 (p. 155 n. 60).
Christopher Rolker, Canon Law and the Letters of Ivo of Chartres (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), passim [on the authorship of the Panormia].
Martin Brett and Bruce Brasington, ‘Table of Panormia Manuscripts’, in Ivo of Chartres: Work in Progress (2015), p. 5 «https://ivo-of-chartres.github.io/panormia/mslist.pdf» [accessed 02 November 2017].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.