Folia Theologica 3. (1992)
Charles Duggan: Decretal letters to Hungary
DECRETAL LETTERS 21 see for absolution, as the general law demands.25 The fragility of their sex does not permit women to make the journey, and the old, sick or disabled cannot do so. But they can be counselled by their bishops, and by their authority restored to the community of the faithful, after appropriate satisfaction. It is necessary for others, whether poor or rich, to appear in person before the pope or his legate for absolution. Those who are granted absolution, when in fear of death, must first swear to approach the Roman Church or its legate when restored to health, and accept its mandate. The letter is found in ten collections, including the Rouen supplement to the Frankfurt collection (7 Rot.), several primitive collections (mostly post 1 Comp.), the Sigiienza manuscript, the famous systematic collection of Gilbertus Anglicus (1202), Fuldensis (largely derived from Gilbert and Alan), the Este manuscript at Modena, Johannes Gallensis’s 2 Comp. (1210-12), and the Decretales of 1234. The later collections assign the letter to Clement III (1187-March 1191), and lack the recipient’s name, but the earlier collections correctly identify Celestine III as sender, explicitly or by inference, though some omit the recipient. He is corruptly named coarienent. episcopo in Mon. 83, and vanenen. episcopo in Seg. 52. Only the Rouen canonists preserve a complete and unambiguous version — Celestinus III Waciensi episcopo, libro I R(egistri), that is Celestine III to the bishop of Vác (Vaciensis, Vácz), a suffragan of Esztergom, in the first register of Celestine III. * * * Ea noscitur: WH 374: (i) Ea noscitur + (ii) Quod utique + (iii) Super quo tibi, JL 16623, 5 November 1191-4 January 1192, 1 Rot. 25.9, Hal. 27, Mon. 83, Gilb. 5.14.1 (ii-iii), Est. 5.18.1 (ii-iii), Fuld. 5.21.1. Crac. 85, Seg. 52, 2 Comp. 5.18.1 (ii-iii), X 5.39.13 (iii); crit.ed. Századok 93 (1959) 417 no. 9. 25 Si quis suadente, 2nd Lateran Council, 1139.
