%0 Book Section %1 dunn_collectio_2015 %A Dunn, Geoffrey D. %B Collecting Early Christian Letters. from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity %D 2015 %E Neil, Brownen %E Allen, Pauline %I Cambridge University Press %K Canones Papstbriefe %T Collectio Corbeiensis, Collectio Pithouensis and the earliest collections of papal letters %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316135655.011 %X Among the more than two hundred manuscripts that have come down to us containing canons from various church synods and councils together with letters or decretals from Roman bishops, those from Merovingian Gaul are particularly significant. From the sixth century onward, particularly in the south, a large number of manuscripts of such material started to be produced, although most do not survive. It has been argued that these were generally regional and unofficial. Identifying which canons from which synods and which letters from which Roman bishops and the order in which they are all arranged (as well as other peculiarities) has enabled scholars both to group individual manuscripts together as belonging to the same tradition or family and to distinguish manuscripts as belonging to different traditions or families. Two of these families, the Collectio Corbeiensis and the Collectio Pithouensis, each known from a single surviving manuscript, are of particular importance in tracing the history of the transmission of mediaeval canon law, and papal letters in particular. It has long been known that there are close connections between the two and that there is evidence that they both utilised an earlier, common source. In fact, most of the surviving letters of Roman bishops prior to the time of Gregory I are to be found in these canon law manuscripts. It tells us more about the interests and concerns of the early mediaeval communities that preserved them than it does of the interests and concerns of the Roman bishops themselves, since these bishops are known to have written about much more than just the regulation of Christian, particularly clerical, life, even though not many examples of that broader interest were deemed worthy of transmission. Yet, some of this process of gathering letters of Roman bishops together might go back to the Roman bishops themselves. %@ 978-1-316-13565-5

@incollection{dunn_collectio_2015, abstract = {Among the more than two hundred manuscripts that have come down to us containing canons from various church synods and councils together with letters or decretals from Roman bishops, those from Merovingian Gaul are particularly significant. From the sixth century onward, particularly in the south, a large number of manuscripts of such material started to be produced, although most do not survive. It has been argued that these were generally regional and unofficial. Identifying which canons from which synods and which letters from which Roman bishops and the order in which they are all arranged (as well as other peculiarities) has enabled scholars both to group individual manuscripts together as belonging to the same tradition or family and to distinguish manuscripts as belonging to different traditions or families. Two of these families, the Collectio Corbeiensis and the Collectio Pithouensis, each known from a single surviving manuscript, are of particular importance in tracing the history of the transmission of mediaeval canon law, and papal letters in particular. It has long been known that there are close connections between the two and that there is evidence that they both utilised an earlier, common source. In fact, most of the surviving letters of Roman bishops prior to the time of Gregory I are to be found in these canon law manuscripts. It tells us more about the interests and concerns of the early mediaeval communities that preserved them than it does of the interests and concerns of the Roman bishops themselves, since these bishops are known to have written about much more than just the regulation of Christian, particularly clerical, life, even though not many examples of that broader interest were deemed worthy of transmission. Yet, some of this process of gathering letters of Roman bishops together might go back to the Roman bishops themselves.}, added-at = {2016-06-27T10:03:18.000+0200}, author = {Dunn, Geoffrey D.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c82ff4e54477cc3247e8f248e78458b4/avs}, booktitle = {Collecting {Early} {Christian} {Letters}. from the {Apostle} {Paul} to {Late} {Antiquity}}, editor = {Neil, Brownen and Allen, Pauline}, interhash = {8e33b28eba2de58eddfbef7ab8ebbbc3}, intrahash = {c82ff4e54477cc3247e8f248e78458b4}, isbn = {978-1-316-13565-5}, keywords = {Canones Papstbriefe}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, timestamp = {2016-06-27T10:03:18.000+0200}, title = {Collectio {Corbeiensis}, {Collectio} {Pithouensis} and the earliest collections of papal letters}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316135655.011}, year = 2015 }