Folia Canonica 12. (2009)

STUDIES - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi: Medieval canon law heritage of the Norbertine Abbey of Weissenau in the hermitage of St. Petersburg

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Public Library of St. Petersburg in the middle of the 19th century.5 Revising and analyzing precisely the forty-one Latin manuscripts of this collection,6 we found four codices (i.e. Ermit. lat. 11, 12, 25, 26) which testify to the profound canonical knowledge of the Norbertine community.7 8 Among them is an admirable elaborated exemplar of the Decretales Grego ri i IXs from the 14th century and a colligatum for the daily discipline and activity of the canons from the 13th— 14th century.

1. The Rossiyskaya Nationalnaya Bibliotéka Ermit. lat. 26 (St. Petersburg)

The Ermit. lat. 26 manuscript is a textual witness of the Liber Extra. The volume is covered with nice white leather that had been adorned with clasps. Originally there were four brass mountings on the corners of both covers, and one in the center of the covers. Now there is only one pair of ornamented brass clasps — of the original two — on the front and the back cover. The cover of the codex, which comes probably from the 17th century, is made from wood on both sides. The manuscript was written on refined, white, but not too thin parchments. The majority of the pages have been frequently used; sometimes they are clean, but there are several greasy parts. The whole codex, which contains 263 folios, was trimmed on three sides. The codex was made from ten- folio quires (five bi-folios). The size of the folios is 446 x 285 mm, and the ruling is deep. For the regular iniciales, red and blue colors were used, but the

5 Onvtemi, IlMnepamopcKoto Ilyff.iwmoio Bufi.iuometoox npe/jcmannenituy 3a 1814 coji,, CaiiKT-lle- repGypri, 1815; cf. Ihmepamopctccut IlyffiuMiiaii Buß.monvaca 3a 100 jient 1814-1914, CaiikT-lIeTep- 6yprb 1914. 239-241.

6 PyKonucHuü tcamwioe muiuihckux pyKonuceü 3pMuma/Knoeo mff/xmun, Jleiimirpa/i 1959.

7 SZUROMI, Sz. A., Some 12"' century textual-witnesses of the family of the Ivonian Panormia (A Comparative Analysis of St. Petersburg, Rossiyskaya Nationalnaya Bibliotéka Ermit. lat. 25 with BAV Barb. lat. 502 and other Ivonian manuscripts), in Ius Ecclesiae 20 (2008) 369-387. Szuromi, Sz. A., Some impressions on the 12lh century textual witnesses oflvo's canonical work, in Studia Canonica 42 (2008) 347-365.

8 On the Decretales Cregorii IX cf. Erdő, P., Storia déllé fonti del diritto canonico (Istituto di diritto canonico San Pio X, Manualia 2), Venezia 2008. 120-123. SCHULTE, J. F., Die Dekretalen zwischen den 'Decretales Cregorii IX’ und 'Liber Sextus Bonifacii VIII’, in Sitzungsbericht der Akademie, Phil.-hist. Klasse 55 (1867) 701-797. Kuttner, S., Raymond of Pehafort as Editor: The "decretales" and "constitutiones" of Gregory IX, in BMCL 12 (1982) 65-80. BERTRAM, M., Die Decretalen Gregors IX.: Kompilation oder Kodifikation?, in Longo, O. (ed.), Magister Raimundus: Atti del Convegno per il IV Centenario della Canonizzazione di San Raimondo de Penyafort (1601—2001) [Institutum Historicum Fratrum Praedicatorum, Dissertationes Historicae 28], Roma 2002. 61-86. WETZSTEIN, Th., Audivimus (X 3.45.1) and the Double Failure of Raymundus de Pehafort, in BLUMENTHAL, U.-R.- Pennington, K,—Larson, A. A. (ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Washington, D.C. 1—7 August 2004) [Monumenta Iuris Canonici C/13], Città del Vaticana 2008. 251-287.