Collectio Francofortana

Concept and History of Collectio Francofortana

713 Chapters – 282 pre-Gratian texts. 63 titles, produced slightly earlier than the Appendix Lateranensis Concilii, and the Collectio Bambergensis I, ca. 1183 in the area of Sens or Troyes.

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Literature

W. Holtzmann, Studies in the collections of twelfth century decretals, edd. and trans. C. Cheney and M. Cheney (MIC B-3; Vatican City 1979) 138. S. Kuttner, ‘Collectio Francofortana’, ZRG Kan. Abt. 22 (1933) 370-80; idem, Repertorium 289, 295-97; idem, ‘Notes on a projected corpus of twelfth-century decretals’,Traditio 6 (1948) 350. P. Landau, ‘Die Entstehung der systematischen Dekretalensammlungen und die europäische Kanonistik des 12.Jahrhunderts’, ZRG Kan. Abt. 66 (1979) 137-43; idem, ‘Studien zur Appendix und den Glossen in frühen systematischen Dekretalensammlungen’, BMCL 9 (1979) 5-8. C. Lefebvre, ‘Francfort (Collection de)’, DDC 5 (1953) 878-884.

Manuscripts

Frankfurt, Stadt- und Universitätsbibl. Barth. 60, fol. 2-85 = F; London, Brit. Libr. Egerton 2901, fol. 1r-97v = M; Paris, B.N. lat. 3922A, fol. 173r-209r = R; Troyes, Bibl. de la Ville 961, fol. 1r-96v = T.

Edition

Die Collectio Francofurtana: Eine franzo_sische Decretalensammlung, edd. Peter Landau and Gisela Drossbach, Analyse beruhend auf Vorarbeiten von Walther Holtzmann (Monumenta iuris canonici. Series B, Corpus collectionum ; vol. 9; Citta_ del Vaticano : Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2007).