Folia Canonica 9. (2006)
STUDIES - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi: Canon Law Handbook by Ivo of Chartres
CANON LAW HANDBOOK BY IVO OF CHARTRES 113 titulorum”.91 The first canon of the collection is “Prima epistola Clementis”.92 There are 25 numbered canons attributed to Pope Clement (887-97?),93 which are then continued with canons of Pope Anacletus (767-887). It is well known, that the first section of the Tripartita traditionally contains two parts: papal letters, then conciliar canons (cf. Collectio A). This section of BAV Reg. lat. 973 is foil. 2va-72ra (finishing with pope Urban II [1088-1099]) and foil. 72ra-l 16ra (finishing with Concilium Hispalense II [a. 619]). The second section (cf. Collectio B), which is arranged systematically runs from fol. 119ra to fol. 193ra. It explains twenty-nine themes. Between the two basic sections, on foil. 116rb-119ra, is an independent part quoting patristic authors (cf. Isidorus Hispalensis, St. Augustine).94 After the section of the Collectio B, there is an empty column (fol. 193rb), but its second half is supplied by a 13th century hand. This script style also is found on fol. 193vb explaining rules about excommunicated bishops. There is another final supplement on fol. 193 va, which is a creed, referring to a council of Pope Eugene. Perhaps it is the Council of Reims (1148) by Pope Eugene III (1145-1153),95 which council is also quoted in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France lat. 2472 as a final supplement. We do not want to get into an analysis of the various textual traditions of the Tripartita, except to mention that the first part of the first section in BAV Reg. lat. 973 is very similar to Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Ashburnham 53,96 which is a textual-witness of the Collectio Anselmi Lucensis. The first, unfortunately fragmentary, part of this particular 12th century manuscript97 contains papal letters from Pope Clement I until Pope Lucius (253-254) in the same order as in BAV Reg. lat. 973. This section looks like only a traditional continuous chronological list of canons with some primitive structure (popes, councils, patristic fathers), which orders the material into three (and not two) types, based on their authors (cf. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale lat. 3858). The introductory papal list is canonum et decretalium collectiones seu sylloges Galtandianae dissertationum de vetustis canonum collectionibus continuatio, ed. A. Theiner (Romae 1836) 154—155. 91 Foil. 2rb-2va: Explicit prologus Incipiunt capituli. I. de potestate et discretione doctoram, II. de uitanda ambitione (...), etc. 92Fo1. 2va: Trado ipsi clementi a domino traditam michi potestatem ligandi et soluendi (...) et non fere bestiae future conmoveri. 93 Foil. 2va-5rb. 94 Cc. 1-39: (Ysidorus) De his qui aparentibus propriis monasterio offeritur: Quicumque aparentibus propriis in monasterio fuerit (...) polluit; [...] (Augustinus) Fucari figintis quo uel rubicum dior (...) daemonibus adhibentur. 95Cf. JL (Mart. 21. 1148) 52-53. 96 Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place (London 1853) I. n 53. / Codici Ashburnhamiani della R. Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurenziana di Firenze (Indici e Cataloghi VIII, Roma 1887) 1/1. 12-13. 97Foil. lra-14vb.
