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Report No. a120

Collectio Cottoniana

1193/94

 

Alternative Names

Cottoniana II; Cotton collection

 

Biography/Description

Part of the ‘Wigorniensis Group’ with Collectiones Trinitatis, Wigorniensis, Cheltenhamensis, Claustroburgensis, Petrihusensis, and the Fragmentum Herefordense. Especially closely related to the Petrihusensis. The only surviving manuscript is fragmentary; it was damaged in a fire in 1731. Formerly referred to as Collectio Cottoniana II.

 

Entry by: KP rev AL 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Collectio Cottoniana.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Collectio Cottoniana.

 
Manuscript

London, BL Cotton. Vitell. E.XIII., fol. 204–288

 

Text(s) – Modern Editions

No. 1

Collectio Cottoniana.

 
Modern Editions

Analysis by W. Holtzmann in DA, 2 (1938) 341–400.

 

Literature

C. Duggan, ‘Decretal Collections from Gratian’s Decretum to the Compilationes antiquae: The Making of the New Case Law’, in The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140–1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, W. Hartmann and K. Pennington, ed. (History of Medieval Canon Law 6; Washington DC 2008) 274–76.

P. Landau, ‘Die Entstehung der systematischen Dekretalensammlungen und die europäische Kanonistik des 12. Jahrhunderts’, ZRG Kan. Abt., 66 (1979) 127–28.

C. Duggan, Twelfth Century Decretal Collections and their Importance in English History (University of London Historical Studies 12; London 1963) 95–110, 187–89, 191–92.

W. Holtzmann, ‘Krone und Kirche in Norwegen im 12. Jahrhundert (Englische Analekten 3)’, DA, 2 (1938) 341–40.

S. Kuttner, Repertorium 297.