Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 019: Ivo of Chartres, Decretum (in 17 parts)
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 19 contains a copy of Ivo of Chartres' (c. 1040-1115) Decretum (in 17 parts), an influential canon law collection. The version of the text in this manuscript was copied at Christ Church, Canterbury in around 1130 by a scribe whose hand has also been identified in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B. 3. 4 (83), Cambridge, UL MS Ff. 3. 29, and Oxford, Bodleian MSS Lat. misc. d. 13 and Lat misc. d. 30. It has recently been suggested that the absence of any later canonical material in this codex may indicate that it was a library copy of the Decretum rather than a working volume. It is also one of only two manuscripts (the other being Durham Cathedral Library MS B.IV.18) to preserve the 'Canterbury version' of the canons of the First Lateran Council of 1123.
- Contents
- Decretum (in 17 parts)
Description
Alternative title | Ivonis Carnotensis Decretum |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 334 + 1 |
Date created | [ca. 1100 - 1199] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 44 lines |
Height (mm) | 335 |
Width (mm) | 238 |
Collation | 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-27(8) (4 canc.) 28(8)-42(8) (wants 8). |
Writing | in the characteristic Christ Church (Canterbury) hand |
Foliation | ff. a-b + i + 1-334 + c-d |
Provenance | At top of f. 1r (xiv) and elsewhere in the book: Decreta Yuonis de claustro ecclesie Christi Cantuar. On the right is the old mark . See Ancient Libraries, p. 52, no. 351. |
Research | On a curious confusion (arising from this MS.) between Ivo and John Stone see W. G. Searle, Christ Church, Canterbury, Camb. Ant. Soc. p. xi etc., On the Decretum, MSS. of which are rare, see P. Fournier Les Collections Canoniques attribuées à Yves de Chartres (Bibl. de L'École des Chartes 1897, p. 40). This copy is not mentioned. |
Additions | On the flyleaf a list of Popes and durations of their reigns from Benedict I (574) to Honorius II (1124)., Another hand continues with names only from Innocent II (1130) to Honorius III (1216-27). |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xii |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 368 |
Stanley | Under D. 8 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jh038cy2979 |
Location | MS 019 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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