Royal MS 11 D IV

PSEUDO-ISIDORE (Isidorus Mercator), Collectio Cano. num : the compilation of forged and genuine decretals, councils, &c. (see Hinschius' ed., Leipzig, 1863). There are some inaccuracies in Hinschius' account of the MSS. in England, which agree more closely together and are more distinct from those at Paris than he makes them. The present text is evidently taken from two sources, the decretals copied from a MS. which omitted the Councils, and the Councils added from another MS. at the end. The archetype of the former was probably closely related to Cotton MS. Claud. E. v and Cambr. Univ. MS. Dd. i. 10, 11; that of the latter was nearer to Vatican MS. Ottob. 93, Angers MS. 354 (cf. also the abridged copies 9 B. XII, 11 D. VIII). Contents:-

1. Breviarium or table of contents (Hinschius, pp. 25- 27) of the articles in their original order. f. 1. After this (f. 1 b) follow tables of capitula to the decretals of Syricius and Innocent, but marked by the rubricator as out of place (see art. 3).

2. 'Hic incipiunt capitula decretalium venerabilium apostolicorum sancte Romane sedis ac ecclesie': table to the original part iii (Hinsch. p. 445) continued to (nos. 138, 139) Capitula Angilramni and the decretals of Nicholas. f2.

3. Tables of capitula (a) to particular decretals (see also end of art. 1), generally different from those printed, and (b) to Councils, Ancyranum-Hispalense ii, generally as in the printed text. f. 3.

4. 'In nomine, &c. Incipit prefatio Ysidori Hispane[n]sis episcopi hulus libri qui dicitur dicta pontificum vel decreta sanctorum patrum'; text as in Hinsch. pp. 17-24, from the preface of Isidore down to the end of the Ordo celebrandi concilii. Preface beg. IYsidorus mercator seruus Christi. . : Compellor a multis tam episcopis' and is followed by the letters of Aurelius and Damasus. Ordo beg. 'Hora diei prima'. f. 12.

5. Note (beg. 'Plura capitula ab apostolis') and letter of S. Jerome ('Gloriam sanctitatis') concerning the Canones Apostolorum, as in Hinsch. p. 27, but the canons themselves are not given here (see art. 10). f. 13 b.

6. Decretals from parts i, ii of the original text, from the first of Clement to the end of the (first) preface to the Council of Nicaea (Hinsch. pp. 30-257). Beg. 'Clemens Iacobo domino et episcopo'; ends 'protestatur acturum '. f. 13 b.

7. 'Incipiunt decreta quedam venerabilium sancte Romane ecclesie apostolicorum et primo quedam ex. cerpta', &c. : part iii (Hinsch. p. 445 sqq.), agreeing with the printed text as far as the end of Gregory the Great, except that in the decretals of Leo, Gelasius and Sym. machus there are omissions and transpositions corresponding to those of the Cotton MS. In both MSS. the letter of Leo to Anatolius ('Manifestabo') is complete. After the Decreta Gregorii follow (without the additions of the Cotton MS.) those of Gregory II (f. 142 b) and the Capitula Angilramni (f. 142 b). Beg. 'Temporibus sancti Siluestri pape'. f. 60 b.

8. Four additions common to this and the Cotton MS., viz.:-(a) 'Epistola decretoria Nicholai pape secundi' beg. 'Vigilancia vniuersalis regiminis'. f. 144;-(b) 'Sinodale decretum eiusdem', beg. 'Ergo Symoniacos'. f. 144 b;-(c) 'Iusiurandum in eadem synodo factum per Berengarium hereticum', beg. 'Ego Beringarius'. f. 144 b;-(d) Council of 1079 on the same matter, beg. 'Anno ab incarnacione'. f. 144 b. Colophon, 'Expliciunt decreta Romanorum pontificum'.

9. 'Incipit liber canonum et pars secunda' : introductory matter to part ii, viz. :-(a) 'De sex synodis principalibus', beg. 'Prima est synodus Nicena'. f. 44 b-(b) 'Annotacio de 24 synodis aliis,' &c., beg. 'Prima annotacio Anquirane'. Incomplete; blank spaces after the twenty-first synod, and then a list of 'Consilia Hispanie', numbered 30-47. The last is 'synodus Toletana 68 episcoporum'. f. 145;-(c) 'Situs diuersarum prouinciarum': a brief list of provinces, followed by 'in prouinciis Gallicanis que ciuitates fuit' (sic), nearly as in Claud. E. v (cf. also art. 12). f. 145 b;-

(d) 'De celebrando concilio': the same matter as in art. 4, but a different text. Beg. 'Hora diei prima'. f. 146 b;-(e) 'De consiliis': the preface to the Collectio Hispana as printed in Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxxiv. 91, with an interpolated reference to Gratian's Decretum. Beg. 'Canones generalium conciliorum'; ends 'multorum in unum'. f. 147;-(f) 'Capitula consiliorum Grecie': a table beg. 'Canones apostolorum'. Ends (after synodus Hispalensis secunda) with 'Sentencie que in veteribus exemplaribus conciliorum non habentur sed a quibusdam inserte sunt'. f. 147 b;-(g) 'Decreta quorundam presulum Romanorum', beg. 'Primaepistola Damasi pape' and ending 'Decreta Romane sedis de recipiendis et non recipiendis'. f. 147 b.

10. Part ii, comprising the Canones apostolorum, with table of capitula, the capitula and metrical preface to the first Nicene Council, and the series of Councils from Nicene i to Seville ii. The chief divergences from the printed text (Hinsch. pp. 258-444) are in inserting the Nicene subscriptions and omitting most of the tables of capitula, the letter of Mizonius and others to the first Council of Carthage, the last chapter of Carthage ii, and the misplaced preface to the Council of Braga, which in other MSS. occurs between Toledo iv and v. Minor variations are frequent, especially in subscriptions and proper names. Beg. 'Episcopus a duobus aut tribus'. f. 148.

11. 'Ordo epistolarum vel decretorum Romanorum pontificum in hoc libro': an index not found in other texts. f. 226b.

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