Folia Theologica et Canonica 1. 23/15 (2012)
IUS CANONICUM - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, Biblical Texts and Medieval Ecclesiastical Discipline up to the Decretum Gratiani
BIBLICAL TEXTS AND MEDIEVAL ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE... 145 speaks about accusation of presbyters, which quotes St. Paul’s First Letter to Timothy (1 Tm 5:17-19): “(•••) Do not accept an accusation against a presbyter unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.”36 37 These canons demonstrate that Anselm of Lucca used the Biblical texts - as well as writtings of St. Gregory the Great - as a basis for the Gregorian Reform, therefore he must also have intended to promote the Biblical knowledge of the clergy. It is crystal clear that in the late 1 l'h century several canonists intended to collect together the whole universal canonical discipline - including its Biblical fundamental norms - in order to give profound and detailed description of the canonical system, the ecclesiastical hierarchy, the daily sacramental life of the Church, the supreme authority of the Pope, and the judicial competence and activity of the ecclesiastical tribunals. Among these canonists Ivo of Chartres is one of the most significant.38 His letters shed much light on his intention to compose a canonical collection that would be as complete as possible. His canonical “reading-book” did indeed promote the thorough instruction of the clergy in the Latin disciplinary and doctrinal texts. Nevertheless, there is no any canon which is Biblical quotation in the textual family of the Ivonian Pa- normia. Only IP 2. 89 - cites a decree of Pope Gelasius I (492-496) - lists in four sections Books of the Old and the New Testament.39 36 Fuhrmann, H., Über den Reformgeist der 74-Titel-Sammlung (Diversorum Patrum Sententiae), in Festschrift für Hermann Heimpel zum 70. Ceburstag am 19. September 1971, Göttingen 1972. 1101-1120. Gilchrist, J. T., The relationship between the Collection in Four Books and the Collection in Seventy-Four Titles, in Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 12 (1982) 13-30. Gilchrist, J.T., Was there a Gregorian Reform Movement in the Eleventh Century, in Gilchrist, J. T., Canon Law in the Age of Reform, 1 lll'-12'1' Centuries (Collected Studies Series CS406), Aldershot 1993. VII, 1-10. Edition: Gilchrist, J. (ed.), Diuersorumpatrum sententie siue Collectio in LXXIV titulos digesta (Monumenta Iuris Canonici, B/l), Città del Vaticano 1973. 37 Ans. 7. 123: Ex epistola Pauli ad Timotheum (5,17-19): Qui bene presunt presbyteri duplici honore digni habeantur, maxime quia laborant in verbo et doctrina. Dicit enim Scriptura: Non infrenabis os bovi trituranti (1 Cor 9:9), et: Dignus est operarius mercede sua. Adversus presbyterum accusationem noli recipere nisi sub duobus aut tribus testibus. 38 Szuromi, Sz. A., Some witnesses of the gradual crystallization process of the Ivonian textual families, in lus Canonicum 50 (2010) 209-228, especially 202-203. 39 Corrected edition by Brett, M. - Brasington, B. - Rolker, Ch., http://www.knowledgeforge- net/ivo/panormia.html [6,h October 2009]: Genesis liber unus. Exodus liber unus. Leviticus liber unus. Numerus liber unus. Deuteronomii liber unus. Iesu Nave liber unus. Iudicum liber unus. Regum liber unus. Ruth liber unus. Paralipomenon liber unus. Psalmorum CL liber unus. Salomonis liber unus. lob liber unus. Thobie liber unus. Hesdre liber unus. Hester liber unus. Iudith liber unus. Machabeorum liber unus. // Isaie liber unus. Ieremie cum Cinoth, id est Lamentationibus suis liber unus. Ezechiel liber unus. Daniel liber unus. Osee liber unus. Amos liber unus. Michee liber unus. Iohel liber unus. Abdie liber unus. Ihone liber unus. Naum liber unus. Abba- cuc liber unus. Sophonie liber unus. Aggéi liber unus. Zacharie liber unus. Malachie liber unus. // Evangeliorum libri quattuor. Secundum Matheum liber unus. Secundum Marcum liber unus. Secundum Lucam liber unus. Secundum Iohannem liber unus. Actuum Apostolorum liber unus. Epistole Pauli numero quatuordecim. Ad Romanos epistola una. Ad Corinthios due. Ad Gala- thas una. Ad Ephesios una. Ad Philipenses una. Ad Colosenses una. Ad Thessaliconenses due.
