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Tools for Legal Historians
Here you will be able to consult the basic forms of major Carolingian legal compilations (canon law collections) in Latin. For English, please visit Tools for Study.
* What can I do NOW?
CCL Search Engine!(trial version). Try it!
This CCL tool allows you to search across the ever-expanding CCL "Conceptual Corpus" of Carolingian canon law without the constraints of standardised orthography. CCL transcriptions are faithful to the manuscripts, to the letter. To make best use of the search engine, please consider the following:
- A search for damnatis yields the hits damnatis and also a list of orthographical variants possibly meriting investigation: damnatus, damnati, damnatum, damnari
- A search for damnatis tentantibus yields hits in the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana and in the Collectio Dacheriana reading De damnatis et ministrare tentantibus and no variants
- A search for damnatis episcopis yields hits that are exact matches, and also a list of possbile variants for both words: damnatus, episcopus, episcopo, epistolis
- Clicking on epistolis in the previous example leads to the result damnatis clericis...XIII... epistolis
- Using wildcards such as * and ? disables the suggested variants. Thus, a search for damna* produces hits such as damnato, damnari, damnati, damnatis etc. A search for militia? to add one more character yields the hits militiam and militiae, whereas a simple search for militia will produce hits that are exact matches and also a list of possible variants: militiae, militiam, initia, miliciam, miliciae.
It is also possible to search for Biblical references. A search for Tim will yield hits for all identified citations from 1 and 2 Tim. These may be in one or both of two forms:
- in glosses, which are displayed as such, and are often visually related to the appropriate textual lemma with highlighting;
- as a mouse-hover box over blue highlighting, for CCL editorial identification of a biblical citation
In the future, cross-references to Gratian will be available.
Other Features:Display of manuscript corrections. To see an example, search for uxorios, click on the hit for Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, 122. The corrected words are displayed in red; clicking on each corrected word reveals the original, uncorrected form (e.g., pervenerit turns to praevenerit; superstes turns to superestis). Users may thus select word-by-word alternatives to test readings and correspondences to other manuscripts. Both the corrected and uncorrected forms are searchable.
Available now: the Collectio Dacheriana (d'Achery edition, main text and d'Achery's annotations) and the following councils from the Dionysio-Hadriana (Cochlaeus edition): Canones Apostolorum [50 canons]; Councils of Nicea, Ancyra, Neocaesarea, Laodicea, Constantinople, Gangra, Antioch, Ephesus, Chalcedon, Sardica, and Carthage.
Other resources:
- Collectio Dacheriana
- Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana
- Scanned images of Cochlaeus (Johannes Wendelstinus) edition (Mainz 1525) of the Dionysio-Hadriana
(Cochlaeus, Johannes, Canones apostolorum. Veterum conciliorum constitutiones. Decreta pontificum antiquiora. De primatu Romanae ecclesiae.
Ex tribus vetustiss. exemplaribus transcripta omnia... Moguntiae : Joannes Schoeffer, 1525.)
(Transcriptions of each council, as printed in this edition, are being added incrementally.)
There is a separate search engine for this volume, that may be used as an alternative to the CCL search engine, but we are phasing it out. Searches are across transcriptions, not images. Searches are thus only viable for transcriptions already present.
- Collectio Hispana: Transcriptions to begin appearing in February 2010.
* What will I be able to do SOON?
December 2009-February 2010: The CCL will soon add more elements of the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (Cochlaeus ed.), as well as transcriptions of Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, 122 (ca. 805), all three books of the Collectio Dacheriana (transcribed by Daniel Ziemann), and of the councils of the Hadriana in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42 (saec. IX) (transcribed by Michael Elliot). There are also a few canons from the Collectio Dacheriana in Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M.p.th.f.22 (more to follow).
Tools for Study: bibliographies; links; annotations; translations
Tools for Editing and Textual Criticism: search and display tools for collation; manuscript shelfmarks; schema; "My Canons"
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