Folia Canonica 9. (2006)
STUDIES - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi: Canon Law Handbook by Ivo of Chartres
112 SZABOLCS ANZELM SZUROMI developing structure of the Ms Angers 369 can be comparable with BAV Vat. lat. 1359, which also has some ‘tabula titulorum’ at the beginning of the codex, but only until Book 3,86 There are some important themes with regard to numbering of the canons and the summaries,87 which parts show the most used parts of the text. Another example is Edinburgh, NLS Adv. Ms. 18. 8. 6, which contains rubrics to mark the start and the end of each book. These few examples could show some steps of that formation process which happened during only a few decades from the “nucleus” of Ivo’s work. We also note here that recurring symptom of the textual-witnesses of the Panormia, which shows structural similarity with stucture of the Decretum. This “mistake” cannot be neglect, and it cannot be attributed to the influence of only one person (e.g. the original compiler) on the text. Therefore, we suggest a comparison ofthe Ms Angers 369 with BAV Reg. lat. 973, a version of the Tripartita. 2. Comparison with BAV Reg. lat. 973 The manuscript of BAV Reg. lat. 973 belongs to the later version of the Tripartita, based on Martin Brett’s classification.88 As Linda Fowler-Magerl ascertains concerning the Tripartita, “the numbering of the canons differs from manuscript to manuscript.”89 It is worth consideration to establish a general overview of this type of Ivonian work, and its place in the process of the textual development of Ivo’s collections. This particular textual-witness (BAV Reg. lat. 973) was written on refined Italian parchments with wide margins in two columns. The whole codex was trimmed up to the punctation. The script style very probable testifies to the first part of the 12th century. The manuscript does not show a day-to-day usage. After fol. lr which is empty, we can read a list of Popes from St. Peter until Formosus (891-896) on foil, lva-lvb. The canonical collection begins on fol. 2ra with a prologue,90 and on fol. 2rb is found the “Tabula 86Foil. 7v-9r, 28v-30r, 53v. 87 Foil. 9r-59v. 88 M. Brett, “Urban II and the collections attributed to Ivo of Chartres”, in Proceedings of the 8" International Congress of Medieval Canon Law. San Diego University of California at La Jolla 21-27 August 1988 (Monumenta iuris canonici C/9), ed. S. Chodrow (Vatican City 1992) 27-46. See concerning the basic results on the Tripartita: L. FOWLER-MAGERL, Clavis Canonum. Selected Canon Law Collections Before 1140. Access with data processing (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Hilfsmittel 21, Hannover 2005) 187-190. 89 Fowler-Magerl, Clavis Canonum, 189. "Foil. 2ra-2rb: Quoniam quorumdam romanorum decreta(lia): pontificorum synodalibus temporem prestater conuentibus non incongrue in nostrae deflorationis opusculo primas sibi uendicant patres (....) Si i am tandem eorumdem decretalium necessarias paginae imprimarius sententias. Cf. Disquisitiones criticae in praecipuas
