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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
In his chronicle of Bloemhof Abbey (Floridus Hortus) in Wittewierum Magister Emo of Huizinge inserts a treatise on simony in which the following passage is to be found:
Item Magister Bertoldus. Si cenobii paupertas sit in tantum, ut aucto numero personarum necesse sit augere patrimonium, ibi statum loci introitum petentibus significare non improbamus. Quidam plus dicunt, etiam taxationes, id est rei precium imponere licere, in hoc casu habentes, qua tueantur hanc suam opinionem, cenobitarum consuetudinem.
1 Kronijken van Emo en Menko, abten van het klooster te Wittewierum, uitgegeven door H. O. Feith en G. Acker Stratingh (Werken, uitgegeven door het Historisch Genootschap, Nieuwe reeks 4; Utrecht 1866). In many respects this edition is superior to that in MGH SS. 23.454-572 (by Weiland), but neither is correct as to the canon law sources. An excellent survey of the thirteenth-century history of Bloemhof is: Aem. W. Wybrands, De abdij Bloemhof te Wittewierum in de dertiende eeuw (Amsterdam 1883). Wybrands was the first to notice that Emo used not the Gregorian Decretals but Comp. I and III.Google Scholar
2 Kronijken 73. In the manuscript a probably late 13th-cent. hand inserted ‘Magister Robertus’ in the margin near the end of the passage. Is Robert Flamborough one of the ‘quidam’ mentioned there?Google Scholar
3 von Schulte, J. F., ‘Zur Geschichte der Literatur über das Dekret Gratians: Zweiter Beitrag,’ Sb. Wien 64 (1870) 110. Von Schulte's line of argument is as follows. In the Bamberg MS of ‘Elegantius’ one B is mentioned in some formulas. This B might be the author. About 1170 three prelates whose names began with this letter were to be found in Cologne or its environs: Bruno, S. Georgii praepositus — the later archbishop; Berthold, canon of St. Gereon, and Bertholf, canon in Bonn. According to Von Schulte one of these three might possibly be the author of ‘Elegantius.’ This line of argument is very feeble, of course, the more so because in the Paris (St. Victor) MS a somewhat later or even contemporary hand ascribes the text to frater Godefridus. Cf. Kuttner, Repertorium 171; and Traditio 7 (as cited below) 300 n. 25.Google Scholar
4 Kuttner, S., ‘Bertram of Metz,’ Traditio 13 (1957) 501–505. Parts of Bertram's commentary on Dig. De regulis juris were edited by S. Caprioli in Annali di storia del diritto 5/6 (1961/2) 345-349.Google Scholar
5 Kronijken 150.Google Scholar
6 Kuttner, S. and Rathbone, Eleanor, ‘Anglo-Norman Canonists of the Twelfth Century,’ Traditio 7 (1949/51) 279–358, especially 296sq.Google Scholar
