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Report No. a479

Rainerius Pomposanus

late 12th/early 13th c.

 

Alternative Names

Rainierius de Pomposa; Reinerus Pomposanus; Rainier of Pomposa; Rainer of Pomposa; Rénier de Pompose; Rainer von Pomposa; Rainero da Pomposa

 

Biography/Description

Deacon and monk of the abbey of Pomposa. Rainier compiled his collection of decretals in 1201. It contains 123 chapters taken from letters issued during the first three years of Innocent III’s pontificate (1198–1201). Rainier drew directly from the papal registers and arranged his material in 41 titles. They differ considerably from those given in the most important compilation of his days, Compilatio prima. His work was later used by other decretal compilers, such as Gilbertus (1202) and Alanus (1206).

 

Entry by: KP rev AL 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Collectio Rainieri.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Collectio Rainieri.

 
Manuscript

a479Txt1Paris, BN lat. 3922A, fol. 235ra–242rb (contains a selection of texts drawn from Rainier)

 
 

Reims, BM 692, fol. 1–27

 

Text(s) – Modern Editions

No. 1

Collectio Rainieri.

 
Modern Editions

Epistolarum Innocentii III P. M. libri undecimi, ed. É. Baluze (Paris 1682) 543–606.

 
 

Brief analysis of contents of MS Reims by F. Heyer in ZRG Kan. Abt., 4 (1914) 595 (from the Reims manuscript; reprinted in Migne, PL 216, 1173–1272).

 
 

Analysis of contents of MS Paris by C. Cheney and M. Cheney in Studies 159.

 

Literature

K. Pennington, ‘Decretal Collections 1190–1234’, 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) 301–307.

R. Somerville, Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity: Selected Translations, 500–1245 (New Haven 1998) 218, 221–22, 232–33.

W. Holtzmann, Studies in the Collections of Twelfth-Century Decretals, C. Cheney, ed. (MIC B–3; Città del Vaticano 1979) xxix, 140–41, 159.

S. Chodorow, ‘An Appendix to Rainier of Pomposa’s Collection’, BMCL, 3 (1973) 55–61.

S. Kuttner, ‘Rénier de Pompose ou Rainerius Pomposanus ou de Pomposa’, in DDC (1959) 7.583–84.

S. Kuttner, ‘Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus’, Traditio, 1 (1943) 328 n.6.

R. von Heckel, ‘Die Dekretalensammlungen des Gilbertus und Alanus’, (1940) 163–64.

S. Kuttner, Repertorium 310, 314–16.

F. Heyer, ‘Die Dekretalensammlungen aus dem 1. Jahrzehnt des 13. Jahrhunderts’, (1914) 593–96.

J. von Schulte, QL 1.83–84.