Folia Canonica 9. (2006)

STUDIES - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi: Canon Law Handbook by Ivo of Chartres

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duction to the basic elements of the Christian faith, especially the teaching about the Holy Trinity, and, moreover, fundamental knowledge about the Church.3 These themes were supplied with the elementary Church discipline on marriage.4 The university instruction laid special stress on explaining the judgment of charges against clerics, as well as the minute presentation of sacramental discipline, or on exposition of the basic norms of the ecclesiastical trial (i. e.: the material object, the active subject, the form, the passive subject, and the formal object). While the use of the knowledge of canon law knowledge was diffused widely in daily ecclesiastical practice, canon law instruction was strengthened on the levels of cathedral and university teaching.5 This was the time when the use of some canonical handbook also became essential for day-to-day parish work. This type of process has been broken by the appearance of the official promulgation (i.e. Compilatio /; Liber Extra). The Decretales Gregorii IX, as a new decretal collection has theoretically changed the traditional structure of the instruction and administration of canon law, because of its promulgation. From this particular time only the various glossal interpretation could take place around the text, but the contextual enlargement could not be a possibility any more.

Here we would like to give an overview of this type of textual formation from tire time before 1140, based on some 12th century copies of the Panormia [IP]6, as compared with other manuscripts of Ivo of Chartres’s canonical works (i.e. Tripartita [Tr], Decretum [ID]7). These collections all date from between 1093 and 1095.

I. General peculiarities of the Panormia’s structure as

COMPARED WITH THE DECRETUM OF IVO

The themes and structure of the Decretum and the Panormia after a precious analysis look quite similar, if we do not deal with the number of the books (IP books 1-8; ID books 1-17), and the extension of the canonical material. How3J. IMBERT, Les temps Carolingiens (741-891). L'Église : Les institutions, Histoire du Droit et des Institutions de l'Eglise en Occident (V/1. Paris 1994) 53-59. R. W. Hunt, The Introductions to the «Artes» in the Twelfth Century, in Studia Mediaevalia (In honorem Admodum Reverendi Patris Raymundi Josephi Martin Ordinis Praedicatorum S. Theologiae Magistri LXXum natalem diem agentis; Brugis Flandorum 1948) 85-112, especially 85-86.

4 J. GAUDEMET, Le mariage en Occident. Les moeurs et le droit (Paris 1987) 99-140.

5 C. H. Haskins, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge Mass.-London "1993) 212-222.

6 Edition: Liber decretorum siue panormia Ivonis, ed. S. Brant, 1499. PL 161. 1041-1344. Corrected edition by M. Brett and B. Brasington: http://www.wtfaculty.wtamu.edu-/~bbrasington/Panonnia.html.

7 Edition: PL 161. 67-1022.