Folia Theologica et Canonica 3. 25/17 (2014)
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254 RECENSIONS ferent recensions and the cultural background in Lucca with particular attention to the transformation of cathedral teaching into university instruction (pp. 69- 82). The next chapter is an overview on “Ivonian intention to collect all of the Disciplinary Sources of the Church” which concept was introduced by Prof. Szuromi into the Pre-Gratian research field (pp. 83-106). Martin Brett and Bruce Brasington who work together with their colleagues on the improved critical on-line edition of the textual families of Ivo of Chartres, adapt different approach for their textual analysis. Nevertheless, they consider Szuromi’s concept. Recently, Peter Landau was the one who intended to build into one unified theory of the afore-mentioned concepts ( Szuromi, Anzelm Szabolcs, From a Reading Book to a Structuralized Canonical Collection. The Textual Development of the Ivonian Work (Rezension), in De Processibus Matrimonialibus 19/20 [2012/2013] 605-607) which deliberation has been built into Szuromi's present new book. The last chapter of this explained volume gives an outline on that process how the contents and stmcture of the canonical collections developed until that time when the Decretum Gratiani had taken the basic position at the university canon law instruction. For this section the author uses several manuscripts from the most important European libraries and through this he is able to make much more understandable this significant epoch and its scientific, institutional and even cultural atmosphere (pp. 107-116). At the end of this volume can be found three Appendices, two are descriptions of some emblematic manuscripts (Firenze, Bibliotheca Medicea-Laurentiana, Ashbumham 53; St. Petersburg, Nationalnaya Bibliotéka O. v. II. 4) [pp. 117— 128], however, the last one is a unique comparison organized into a table of writings of Gregory the Great (590-604) which take place in the First Part of Ivo’s Tripartita. From this informative scheme becomes very clear the significant influence of the Tripartita’s contents on the Decretum Gratiani (pp. 129— 134). Finally, we can find a detailed and updated international bibliography (pp. 135-150) and the index of manuscripts (pp. 151-152). Professor Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi’s new book gives balanced and moderated overview on intention of compiling work of authors of the Pre-Gratian canonical collections and on the development of medieval canon law discipline. The Author remains consequently within the framework of interpretation of the medieval canonical sources, therefore he is able to explain an authentic picture for the readers about the medieval - contemporary - principles of canon law. Through the Author’s special interpretative horizon, this particular work in unique mode complements the understanding of the medieval canonical knowledge and thinking on the highest international scientific level, involving the most recent results of this field. Rita Ferenczy
