Folia Canonica 9. (2006)

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

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SZABOLCS ANZELM SZÚROM I

III. The manuscript BAV Pal. lat. 587

The manuscript Pal. lat. 587 of the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana48 is a witness of the Decretum,49 one of the three canonical works of Ivo of Chartres. The BAV Pal. lat. 587 can be divided into two distinct parts. The first part of the codex begins on fol. Ira and it finishes on fol. 4ra, marked with a rubric: Exceptiones ecclesiasticarum.50 The parchments are very clear, but are not too thin. The text on the pages is divided into two columns. The size of the folios is 320 X 300 mm. The whole manuscript was made of eight folios quires and it was copied in the 12th century, which is supported by the script form. The Ivonian collection begins at the bottom of fol. 4ra with the Tabula Librorum, which contains seventeen titles. But there is no mark to indicate that this collection is aDecretum of Ivo of Chartres. The first book immediately follows this list of the books, without a list of the contents, on fol. 4rb. The opening text of this book is attributed to St. Augustine. He is the author of the other thirty-nine texts, which use the same text of St. Augustine at the beginning of Book 1. This material indicates some problems, because based on Friedberg’s edition of the Decretum Gratiani, some of these texts do not belong to the contents of Ivo’s Decretum, but no other Ivonian works contain them either.51 This first section ends with a letter of Pope Leo I (440-461)52 after the forty canons of St. Augustine on the last folio of the quire. If we analyze the texts on the next folio, we can find there two fragments

48 See Codices Palatini Latini Bibliothecae Vaticanae (Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae Codices Manuscripti Recensiti), ed. I. B. Pitra - H. Jr. Stevenson - I. B. De Rossi (Romae 1886) I. 197. About the provenance of BAV Pal. lat. 587, P. Landau recently gave some suggestions as to its possible Scandinavian origin.

49 Edition: PL 161. 67-1022; cf. P. Landau, “Das Dekret des Ivo von Chartres. Die handschriftliche Überlieferung im Vergleich zum Text in den Editionen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts“, in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fiir Rechtsgeschichte. Kanonistische Abteilung 70 (1984) 1-44.

50Fol. Ira. Exceptiones ecclesiasticarum regularium partim exemplis romanorum pontificum partum ex gestis conciliorum catholicorum episcoporum partim extractantibus orthodoxorum regum partim ex institutionibus catholicorum patrum non multo libere in unum corpus adunare curauitat qui scripta illa ex quibus ista excepta sunt admonum habere non poterit hinc saltim accipiat quod ad cosmobus cause suae uale perpexerit (...).

51 C. 1 q. 1 c. 55 (Friedberg I. 379), but ID 1. 26=IP 1.8=Alger. Lib. Sent. c. 3; cf. D. 4 c. 3 (Friedberg I. 1362).

52 Proprie in morte crucifixi, et in resurrectione ex mortuis potencia baptismi nouam creaturam condidit ex uetere, ut in renascentibus et mors Christi operetur, et uita, dicente apostolo (...) Penitenciam, inquit, agite, et baptizetur unusquisque uestrum in nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi in remissionem peccatorum uestrorum, et accipietis donum Spiritus sancti. Cf. ID. 1. 45-46; Tr 1. 43. 43; D. 4 c. 13 de cons. (Friedberg I. 1365-1366).