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Report No. a129

Collectio Eberbacensis

c.1181

 

Alternative Names

Eberbach collection

 

Biography/Description

Primitive collection consisting of 111 chapters subdivided into 25 articles. Most of the material is from the pontificate of Alexander III, including conciliar canons from Tours (1163) and Lateran III (1179). Written in northern France and soon came into the possession of the Cistercian abbey of Eberbach. Belongs to the ‘Tortosa Group’ with the Collectiones Dertusensis prima and Alcobacensis prima.

 

Entry by: KP rev AL 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Collectio Eberbacensis.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Collectio Eberbacensis.

 
Manuscript

London, BL Arundel 490, fol. 210–221r

 

Text(s) – Modern Editions

No. 1

Collectio Eberbacensis.

 
Modern Editions

Analysis by W. Holtzmann in ZRG Kan. Abt., 17 (1928) 548–555.

 

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) 262–64.

C. Duggan, Twelfth Century Decretal Collections and their Importance in English History (University of London Historical Studies 12; London 1963) 126–28.

C. Lefebvre, ‘Eberbacensis (Collectio)’, in DDC (1953) 5.134–37.

S. Kuttner, Repertorium 281.

W. Holtzmann, ‘Collectio Eberbacensis’, ZRG Kan. Abt., 17 (1928) 548–55.