Folia Canonica 9. (2006)

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IV. The manuscript 369 of Angers, Bibliothèque Municipal

The codex63 64 is a witness of the Panormia. The Angers Ms 369 can be divided into two distinct parts. The first part of the codex begins on fol. 1 r and it finishes on fol. 106v, marked at the right upper comer of the folio with capital characters : Ivo Carnotensis Panormia. There is a possessor inscription at the bottom of the page: Ex libris Monasterii S. Albini andeg. Cong. S. Mauri. In the headline we can read also ‘Ivo Carnotensis’ by a 15th century hand. The size of the folios is 260 X 165 mm and the text is in one column. The parchments are not as refined as the contemporary Italian manuscrpits, not too thin, but originally they were soft. The codex was trimmed on each side up to the marginal punctation. Based on the condition of the folios, it seems that this manuscript was kept in some fusty and dirty place. Part of foil. 1-14 got wet as the codex was open. The first quire contains only four folios, then the rest was made from eight - folio quires, and the whole manuscript was copied in the early 12th century, which is supported by the script form. At the end of the codex we found the second part by a 13th or early 14th century hand: De temptatione Evae.M This theological supplement was written in the bound manuscript.

The introductory canon as opening text on fob lr is not the traditional beginning of the Ivonian Panormia: (Q)uodcumque imperator per epistolam constituit vel cognoscens decrevit vel edicto precepit legem esse constat. (...) Namque induisit obmita alicui vel si cuipenam irrogavit vel si cui sine exemplo subvenit personam non tamens greditur.65 This is a quotation from the Institutiones Iustiniani (Inst. lust. 1.2. 6), which is continued immediately with only the concluding part of the prologue of the Panormia,66 It is followed by a list of themes

63Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque d’Angers (Paris 1928) 320-321.

64 Foil. 106v-108v.

65 Fol. lr: Quodcumque imperator per epistolam constituit vel cognoscens decrevit vel edicto precepit legem esse constat. Haec sunt quae constitutiones appellantur. Plane ex his quaedam sunt personales appellantur quae nec ad exemplum trahuntur quoniam non hoc princeps vult. Namque induisit ob merita alicui vel si cui poenam irrogavit vel si cui sine exemplo subvenit personam non tamens greditur. Cf. Ins. lust. 1. 2. 6: Quodcumque igitur imperator per epistulam constituit, vel cognoscens decrevit, vel edicto praecepit, legem esse constat: haec sunt, quae constitutiones appellantur, plane ex his quaedam sunt personales, quae nec ad exemplum trahuntur, quoniam non hoc princeps vult: nam quod alicui ob merita induisit, vel si cui poenam irrogavit, vel si cui sine exemplo subvenit, personam non egreditur. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum Libri IV (Corpus iuris civilis I), ed. E. Schrader (Berolini 1832; repr. Goldbach 2001) 27-28.

66 Possemus de huiusmodi plurimas rationes plurima exempla colligere sed prudenti lectori et ei qui nouit plurima de paucis intillegere debent praedicta sufficere. Quod tamen iam monuimus item [it continues at the margin: monemus] ut si quis quod legerit de sanctionibus siue dispensationibus ecclesiasticis ad caritatem quae est plenitudo legis referat non errabit nec peccabit et quando aliqua probabili ratione a sumo rigore