Folia Theologica et Canonica 2. 24/16 (2013)
RECENSIONS
RECENSIONS 279 textual-critical, codicological, paleographical and comparative analyzing method which he has successfully done in his previous publications. Prof. Szuromi’s work is distributed into twelve chapters which observe in detailed form the fundamental methodological change concerning the 11th-12th century canonical collections (15-29); speak about the importance of Councils of Toledo in the disciplinary sources and institutional system of the Church in particular up to the 8th century, however their influences even on the Corpus iuris canonici and through that until now (30—40). There is a revised description - using the most recent new results - of the famous Collectio Dionysion- Hadriana and its text (41-52); it is continued by a unique analysis of another key collection of the Western canon law history, namely the Decretum Burchardi Wormatiensis (53-69). This chapter intends to deliberate every new theory and concept concerning this basic collection (i.e. Hartmut Hoffmann, Rudolf Pokomy, Johanna B. Will, Linda Fowler-Magerl, Greta Austin), using that textual critical and comparative work which has been done by Pof. Szuromi during the last two years. About the Gregorian Reform we can read in two chapters. The first is dedicated to the structure and contents of the 74-Title Digest with particular attention to the recent questions of its origin and location of the primary textual form (i.e. the research of Linda Fowler-Magerl and Christof Rolker), making a note based on Prof. Szuromi’s 2013 research in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 13658) [70-80]. The second speaks about a fragmentary textual witness of the Collectio canonum Anseimi Lucensis from the 15th—16th century, which is a colligatum and testifies the ‘Bb’ version of this collection (81-91). The next two chapters deal particularly with those manuscripts which are kept in the National Library of St. Petersburg and are really relevant in the canon law history (92-121). This is the most important section - without doubt - of this volume, because has not made before such a detailed, precise - considering every single aspect - description concerning these manuscripts, moreover Prof. Szuromi modifies several former scholarly misunderstanding on these pages. The Author has already published a short article on the role of Biblical texts in the pre-Gratian canonical collections (i.e. Biblical sources in the Medieval Canonical Collections [9"'-12'h centuries], in Angeli- cum 86 [2009] 921-929), and here he continues his research on the material of further canonical collections, including the Decretum Gratiani (122-135). The last three chapters are focusing on the development of ecclesiastical institutions from the beginning - even the comparison with the Roman law - until the codified canon law. There is an essential summary on the medieval ecclesiastical tribunal system (135-149). The high quality of this chapter represented well by those new international research programs which results are inserted into this part (particularly the work of Orazio Condorelli, Franck Roumy, Mathias Schmoeckel, Charles Donahue Jr.). Nevertheless, the explaining of categories and sources of the ecclesiastical singular administrative acts in the medieval
