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English Canonists and the ‘Appendix Concilii Lateranensis’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Charles Duggan
Charles Duggan*
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King's College, University of London
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The formative role of the Appendix Concilii Lateranensis in the development of twelfth-century decretal collections is already familiar to historians of canon law. This important collection begins in its vulgate edition with the canons of the Lateran Council of 1179, followed by forty-nine titles, which, with the exception of the final two, are systematic in technical style. The collection as preserved in the editio princeps, based by B. Laurens on a manuscript now lost, was built up in a series of successive stages, the basic work being completed within the limits c. 1181–5, and the final form including material as late as 1188–90. But the concluding title in this editio princeps, or vulgate edition, is not discovered in any of the surviving Appendix manuscripts, and has been shown by Holtzmann to depend on an excerpt from the lost register of Alexander III. It must be assumed, therefore, that this title had no place in the original collection, but was a special supplement to the manuscript on which Laurens based his edition, being discovered elsewhere only in the material at the end of Orielensis I, a related work. Since the collection in its earliest version (c. 1181–5) was the fountainhead of the main tradition of decretal transmission, its provenance and authorship are clearly of historical interest.

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Institute of Research and Study in Medieval Canon Law Bulletin for 1962
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Traditio , Volume 18 , 1962 , pp. 459 - 468
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Copyright © 1962 New York, Fordham University Press 

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1 The text is in Crabbe, P., Concilia omnia tam generalia quam particularia II (2nd ed. Cologne 1551) 836–944; Mansi, J.-D., Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio 22.248–454; etc. See also Friedberg, , Canonessamlungen 63–84; Amanieu, A., ‘Appendix Concilii Lateranensis,’ DDC 1 (1935) 833-41; Kuttner, S., Repertorium der Kanonistik 290-1, including a critical bibliographical report on relevant work by Seckel, E., Heyer, F., Juncker, J., and others; Holtzmann, W., ‘Die Register Papst Alexanders III. in den Händen der Kanonisten,’ Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 30 (1940) 13–87; idem, ‘Über eine Ausgabe der päpstlichen Dekretalen des 12. Jahrhunderts,’ Nachrichten Akad. Göttingen (1945) 23; idem and Kemp, E. W., Papal Decretals Relating to the Diocese of Lincoln (Lincoln Record Society; 1954) xiii; etc. For generous advice in preparing this paper, I am much indebted to Professor Stephan Kuttner, and for information kindly given at an earlier stage my thanks are due to Dr. Eleanor Rathbone.Google Scholar

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