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Canon Law Texts

Below are listed those canonistic texts which have a direct bearing on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Under each text are listed manuscript witnesses which were written/read, or possibly written/read, by Anglo-Saxons.

Works composed in England,
or by Anglo-Saxons on the Continent

Works read or copied by Anglo-Saxons


Ælfric's Pastoral letters
  numerous manuscripts

Collectio Wigorniensis
  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190, pp. iii–xii, 1–294
  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 265, pp. 3–208
  London, British Library, Cotton Nero A. i, fols 70–177
  Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow 37 (6464), fols 1r–61v
  Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 1382 (U. 109), fols 173r–198v

Boniface's Sententiae Palatinae
  Vatican, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal.lat. 577

Boniface's Sententiae Wirceburgenses
  Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.q. 31, fols 1–41 and 52–9

Ecgberht's Dialogus
  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 265, pp. 3–208 (excerpts)
  London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. xii, fols 4–71
  Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow 37 (6464), fols 1r–61v (excerpts)

The Ecgberhtine penitential
  numerous manuscripts

Theodore's Iudicia
  numerous manuscripts

Wulfstan's Canons of Edgar
  Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 8558–63 (2498) (partial)
  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 201, pp. 8–160, 167–76
  Cambridge, University Library, Additional 3206 (fragm.)
  Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 121 (5232)

Caesarius of Alres's Encyclical letter of ca 534
  *Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 572 (2026), fols 51–107
  (+ all manuscripts of the Collectio vetus Gallica)

Collectio Dionysiana and Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana
  *Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek, MS 4° theol. 1
  Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42
  *Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 577
  *Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f. 3, fols 2r–65v
  *Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f. 72
  *Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f. 186 + binding strips in Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f. 5+13+37+60, + M.p.th.q. 2, + M.p.misc.f. 3+5a
(+ excerpts in the 'Leiden-family' of glossaries)

Collectio Hibernensis
  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 190 (partial)
  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 279 (partial)
  London, British Library, Cotton Otho E. xiii
  London, British Library, Royal 5. E. xiii (partial)
  *London, Lambeth Palace, MS 1231 (partial)
  Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42
  *St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 243
  *Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 577 (excerpts)
  *Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. q. 31, fols 1–41 and 52–59 (partial)

Collectio Hispana
  (no manuscripts)

Collectio quadripartita
  Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 718
  (+ excerpts in all manuscript of the Collectio Wigorniensis)

*Collectio Quesnelliana
  *Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 644 (572)
  *Düsseldorf, Universitätsbibliothek, MS E 32
  *Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 191 (277)
  *Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Lat. 2141
  *Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Lat. 2147

Collectio Sanblasiana
  *olim Cheltenham, Phillipps collection, MS 17849
  *Cologne, Dombibliothek, Codex 213
  *Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Lat. 3836
  (+ excerpts in the 'Leiden-family' of glossaries)

Collectio Turonensis
  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 279

*Collectio vetus Gallica
  *Brussels, Bibliothèque royale Albert 1er, MS 8654–72 (1324)
  *Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 10127–44 (363)
  *Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. q. 31, fols 42r–51v (partial)
  *Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 572 (2026), fols 51–107 (frag.)
  (+ excerpts in all manuscript of the Collectio Wigorniensis)

Ghaerbald's Capitularia
  numerous manuscripts

Pope Gregory the Great's Libellus responsionum
  numerous manuscripts

Pope Gregory the Great's Libellus synodicus (CROM.595)
  (+ some manuscripts of the Collectio vetus Gallica, including *Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 10127–44 [363])

An unidentified chronological canon law collection
  Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 265 (excerpts)


An '*' indicates a text or manuscript is of questionable relevance to Anglo-Saxon England due to uncertain sourcing or manuscript provenance.