Ivonian Intention to Collect The “Ancient Canons” Together with New Decretal Materials

IVONIAN INTENTION TO COLLECT THE “ANCIENT CANONS” TOGETHER WITH NEW DECRETAL MATERIALS* Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem.** Recently, there has been a new emphasis on discovering the textual development of the various canonical collections, especially up to the Decretum Gratiani (1140).1 These new results have brought to light the fact that behind the different recensions of a particular collection we have to recognize the different fields of the institutional activity of the Church. The formation of the contents of every single canonical compilation has come about for the purposes of reading, reference, consultation, or teaching .2 Instruction at the cathedral school entailed the introduction to the basic elements of the Christian faith, especially the teaching about the The Jurist 67 (2007) 285–310 285 * This paper has been written with the generous support of Insituto de Derecho Europeo Clásico (IDEC) in Las Palmas. We would like to thank Prof. Carlos Larrainzar and Prof. José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez. We dedicate this article to Prof. John Lynch. This publication is supported also by OTKA T 048584/2004 research program. ** Universita Cattolica Pázmany Péter, Budapest. 1 See. M. Brett, “Editions, Manuscripts and Readers in Some Pre-Gratian Collections,” in Ritual, Text and Law, ed. K. G. Cushing – R. F. Gyug (Aldershot:Ashgate, 2004) 205–224; Szabolcs A. Szuromi, “Some Observations on the Developing of Different Versions of the Collectio Canonum Anselmi Lucensis (A Comparative Analysation of Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana S. Marco 499 with other Manuscripts of Anselm’s Collection),” Ius Ecclesiae 14 (2002) 425–449; Rudolph Weigand, “Zur künftigen Edition des Dekrets Gratians,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte . Kanonistische Abteilung 83 (1997) 32–51. Anders Winroth, The Making of Gratian’s Decretum. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 49. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); Carlos Larrainzar, “La ricerca attuale sul ‘Decretum Gratiani,’ ” in La cultura giuridico-canonica Medioevale premesse per un dialogo ecumenico, ed. E. De León–N. Álvarez de lasAsturias (Milan, 2003) 45–88; J. M. Viejo-Ximénez, “La investigación sobre las fuentes formales del Decreto de Graciano,” Initium 7 (2002) 217–239; idem, “La composizione del Decreto di Graziano,” Medieval Canon Law Collections and European ius commune. Bibliotheca Instituti Postgradualis Iuris Canonici Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány nominatae III/8, ed. Sz. A. Szuromi (Budapest, 2006) 97–169. 2 Cf. SzabolcsA. Szuromi, “A 12th Century Pastoral Pocket Book (Some impressions on National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Adv. Ms. 18. 8. 6, as compared with Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royal MS 1817),” Medieval Canon Law Collections, 65–96; idem, “A Snapshot from the Process of the Textual–Development of Ivo’s works (ComparativeAnalysis ofAngers, Bibliothèque Municipal, Ms. 369 with BAV Reg. lat. 973 and other Textual Witnesses),” Ius Ecclesiae 18 (2006) 217–238. 3 J. Imbert, Les temps Carolingiens (741–891). L’Église : Les institutions, Histoire du Droit et des Institutions de l’Église en Occident.V/1. (Paris, 1994) 53–59. R.W. Hunt, The Introductions to the «Artes» in the Twelfth Century, in Studia Mediaevalia (In honorem Admodum Reverendi Patris Raymundi Josephi Martin Ordinis Praedicatorum S. Theologiae Magistri LXXum natalem diem agentis (Bruges Flandors, 1948) 85–112, especially 85–86. 4 Jean Gaudemet, Le mariage en Occident. Les moeurs et le droit (Paris, 1987) 99–140. 5 C. H. Haskins, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century 11th edition. (Cambridge Mass.-London, 1993) 212–222. 6 Peter Erdö, Die Quellen des Kirchenrechts. Eine geschichtliche Einführung. Adnotationes in Ius Canonicum 23. (Frankfurt am Main, 2002) 98–100; cf. P. Fournier, “Les collections canoniques attribuées à Yves de Chartres,” in Bibliothèque de la École des Chartres 57 (1896) 645–698; 58 (1897) 26–77, 293–326, 410–444, 624–676 [repr. in P. Fournier, Mélanges de droit canonique, I, ed. P. Kölzer. (Aalen, 1983 451–678; P. Landau, “Die Rubriken und Inskriptionen von Ivos Panormie,” in Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 12 (1982) 31–49; M. Brett, “Creeping up on the Panormia,” in Grundlagen des Rechts, ed. Richard H. Helmholz (Padernborn 2000) 205–270; idem, “The Sources and Influence of Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal 713,” Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress...