Dacheriana

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This manuscript, created around 805 in north-eastern France, is one of the oldest copies of the Dacheriana. Slide 1r shows the titles of chapters 1 to 8 in a table of contents. This manuscript today belongs to the Cologne Cathedral Library as Codex 122 and was digitized as part of the CEEC project .

The Dacheriana is a systematic collection of canon law that was created around 800 in southern France and was named after the editor of the first and so far only text-critical edition Luc d'Achery (1609–1685).

Origin and Distribution

The author of the Dacheriana probably belonged to the leadership of the Carolingian reform clergy. Specifically, Agobard , the future Archbishop of Lyon, is named as a possible author. The collection is largely based on the chronological collection Dionysio-Hadriana , created before 774 on behalf of Hadrian I , and the systematic collection Hispana, which was probably created in Toledo . At the time the Dacheriana was created in the Frankish Empire, the latter was probably only known in Lyon or the vicinity of Lyon. As the foreword to the collection already explains, it was based closely on the traditional authorities and arranged them in a practically manageable form. However, it is not certain whether the foreword itself comes from the same author, as this was also distributed independently of the collection.

The Dacheriana achieved a fairly high distribution in the 9th and 10th centuries. A total of 51 handwritten copies from the period are preserved today, the origins of which are spread over the entire Franconian Empire. However, an original form of the Dacheriana has not been preserved. The later versions are divided into categories A, AB and B depending on the degree of pseudoisidoric forgery .

Editions

Page 518 from the Spicilegium by Luc d'Achery published in 1723 with the end of the table of contents and the first four chapters. This edition was also digitized as part of the CEEC project.

In the later Middle Ages the Dacheriana was forgotten. It was only rediscovered through the research activities of the mason Luc d'Achery. His text-critical edition is based on the Parisian manuscript lat. 4287 from the 10th century, but the preface and some parts are missing.

In 1966 M. Murjanoff published an edition of the St. Petersburg fragments based on the manuscript QvII.24 of the Russian National Library , which was created in Reims at the end of the 9th century .

A new critical edition that takes into account all known manuscripts has not yet been published (as of 2007). It was at least considered by G. Haenni in 1956.

literature

  • Hubert Mordek : Canon Law and Reform in the Franconian Empire . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1975, ISBN 3-11-001826-8 . (On pages 259–263 you will find some information on the history of its origin and a list of the manuscripts.)
  • Lotte Kéry: Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (approx. 400-1140) . The Catholic University of America Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8132-0918-8 . (The entry for the Dacheriana can be found on pages 87-92. Compared to Mordek, the list of manuscripts has been expanded significantly.)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Mordek, p. 12f. and Kéry, p. 87.
  2. ↑ Cf. Mordek, p. 13, footnote 49. This refers to Ewig: Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte III . Volume 1, pages 128 and 133f. Also on H. Gerner: Lyon in the early Middle Ages. Studies on the history of the city, the archbishopric and the county in the 9th and 10th centuries , page 57ff. And finally Boshof: Archbishop Agobard of Lyon. Life and Work , 1969.
  3. ↑ See Mordek, p. 259.
  4. ↑ a b See Mordek, p. 260.
  5. ↑ The number of copies is based on Kéry's list.
  6. ↑ Cf. Kéry, pp. 87 and 89. Kéry refers here to an article by G. Haenni: Note sur les sources de la Dacheriana , Studia Gratiana 11 (1967), pp. 1-22.
  7. ↑ On page 87, Kéry refers to M. Murjanoff: Leningrader Fragmente der Dacheriana , Studia Gratiana , born in 1966, No. 9, pp. 6-10.
  8. ↑ See Mordek, p. 261 and Kéry, p. 92. Reference is made here to G. Haenni: La Dacheriana mérite-t-elle une réédition? , Revue historique de droit français et étranger , 4th year, issue 34, 1956, pp. 376–390.