Collections of Canon Law: 1000-1100

Collection in Four Books

Burchard of Worms, Decretum, Worms, Germany.  ca. 1000

Collection of 74 Titles  ca. 1050, Rome, Systematic Collection.  Very important for the reception of Pseduo-Isidore --- 146 chapters of 252.  Over thirty manuscripts extant.  Anonymous compiler ca.  1050;  a notation in Northern European manuscripts indicates that the collection was brought to France by papal legates.

Anselm of Lucca, Collectio canonum.  1086. Italy.  Systematic Collection.*

Deusdedit, Collectio canonum. 1087. Rome. Systematic Collection.

Bonizo of Sutri, Liber de vita christiana. 1095.  Central Italy.  Systematic Collection.

Ivo of Chartres.  Collectio tripartita,* Decretum, Panormia.* Northern France. 1093-1099.  Systematic Collections.

*Some scholars think that these collections were important sources for Gratian when he compiled his Decretum.

For information about these collections see Lotte Kéry, Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature. History of Medieval Canon Law. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 1999.