The Medieval Canon Law Virtual Library

Corpus Synodalium: Local ecclesiastical legislation in medieval Europe (full-text database hosted by Stanford University)

Collectio Tripartita, Decretum, and Panormia. [html]

Ivo of Chartres: works in progress. Editions prepared by Bruce Brasington, Martin Brett, and Przemyslaw Nowak. Hosted by Knowledgeforge.

Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana (774) [pdf]

Cochlaeus (Johannes Wendelstinus), Dionysio-Hadriana. Mainz, 1525. Hosted by the University of Kentucky.

Collectio Dacheriana (ca. 800) [pdf of Collectio canonum poenitentialium]

Jean-Luc D’Achery, ed. Spicilegium sive collectio veterum aliquot scriptorum qui in Galliae Bibliothecis delituerant. Paris, 1723. Hosted by Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis, University of Cologne.

False Capitularies of Benedictus Levita (9th century) [html of early modern editions and html/pdf of critial edition in progress]

Capitula regum et episcoporum. Ed. Jean du Tillet. Paris, 1548.

Etienne Baluze, ed. Capitularia regum Francorum, I. 801-1232. Paris, 1677.

Critical edition in progress.

All hosted by Monumenta Germaniae Historica; site directed by Gerhard Schmitz.

Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals, Capitula Angilramni, and Capitula Dnieliana (9th century) [html and pdf]

Die Falschen Dekretalen Pseudoisidors. Ed. Karl-Georg Schon and Klaus Zechiel-Eckes. Work in progress, hosted by Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

RESOURCES

Abigail Firey, The Carolingian Canon Law Project [internet resource]

Abigail Firey, The Carolingian Canon Law Project [internet resource]

Gero Dolezalek, Medieval Manuscripts of Canon Law and Roman Law [internet resource]

Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, Orbis Latinus [html]

Johann Georg Theodor Grässe. Orbis Latinus: Lexicon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Berlin: Richard Carl Schmidt, 1909. Hosted by Columbia University.

Gregor Haloander, Modus legendi abbreviaturas. [pdf]

Gregor Haloander. Modus legendi abbreviaturas passim in iure tam civili, quam pontificio occurrentes. Rome: Typis Gulielmi Facciotti, 1623. Reprint Bononia: A. Forni, 1989. Hosted by Colby College.

Paul Halsall, Internet Medieval Sourcebook [internet resource]

Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington, eds., The history of medieval canon law in the classical period, 1140-1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX. [searchable fulltext]

The history of medieval canon law in the classical period, 1140-1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX. Edited by Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2008. Hosted by Google books.

Karl J. von Hefele, trans. H. Leclercq. Histoire des conciles d’apres les documents originaux. [text-searchable pdf of all volumes]

Karl J. von Hefele. Histoire des conciles d’apres les documents originaux. Translated by H. Leclercq. Paris: Letouzey, 1907. Hosted by www.archive.org.

Walther Holtzmann Catalog of the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law [internet resource]

Y. Lassard & A. Koptev, The Roman Law Library [internet resource]

Giovan Domenico Mansi. Sacrorum conciliorum nova, et amplissima collectio. [pdf of all volumes]

Giovan Domenico Mansi. Sacrorum conciliorum nova, et amplissima collectio. Florence, 1759. Hosted by Documenta Catholica Omnia.

The ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies [internet resource]

Kenneth Pennington and Charles Donahue, Jr., Bio-Biblographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists [internet resource]

Edward Peters, Canonlaw.info [internet resource]

Schedario Baumgarten. [pdf of vols. 1-3]

Schedario Baumgarten. Descrizione diplomatica di bolle e brevi originali da Innocenzo III a Pio IX. Riproduzione anastatica.  Edited by Giulio Battelli and Gergio Pagano. Vatican: Presso l’Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 1965-1986. Hosted by the Vatican Secret Archives.

August Theiner. Disquisitiones criticae. [text-searchable pdf]

August Theiner. Disquisitiones criticae. Rome: Collegio Urbano, 1836. Hosted by Colby College.

Otto Vervaart, Rechsthistorie: A Gateway to Legal history [internet resource]

Regesta pontificum romanorum, ed. August Potthast [text-searchable pdf]

Regesta pontificum romanorum. Edited by August Potthast. Volume 1. Berlin: Rudolf de Decker, 1874. Reprint Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1957.

Regesta pontificum romanorum, ed. Philip Jaffe [pdf: vol. 1; vol. 2]

Regesta pontificum romanorum. Edited by Philip Jaffe. Leipzig: Veit, 1885-1888. Reprint Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1956. Hosted by Colby College.

Die papstlichen Kanzleiordnungen, ed. Michael Tangl [text-searchable pdf]

Die papstlichen Kanzleiordnungen. Edited by Michael Tangl. Innsbruck: Wagner, 1894. Reprint Aalen: Scientia, 1959. Hosted by Colby College.

Les registres de Gregoire IX, ed. Lucien Auvray [vol. 1; vol. 2; vol. 3]

Les registres de Gregoire IX. Edited by Lucien Auvray. Paris: Fontemoing, 1896-1907. Hosted by Columbia University Libraries.

Registri dei Cardinali Ugolino d’Ostia e Ottaviano degli Ubaldini (the future Pope Gregory IX), ed. Guido Levi [text-searchable pdf]

Registri dei Cardinali Ugolino d’Ostia e Ottaviano degli Ubaldini. Edited by Guido Levi. Roma: Forzani, 1890. Hosted by Colby College.

Regulae cancellariae apostolicae: Die papstlichen Kanzleiregeln von Johannes XXII. bis Nikolaus V., gesammelt und herausgegeben, ed. Emil von Ottenthal [text-searchable pdf]

Regulae cancellariae apostolicae: Die papstlichen Kanzleiregeln von Johannes XXII. bis Nikolaus V., gesammelt und herausgegeben. Edited by Emil von Ottenthal. Innsbruck, 1888. Reprint Aalen: Scientia, 1968. Hosted by Colby College.

Honorius Magister (of Kent), Summa quaestionum [text-searchable pdf of distinctio 2]

Magistri Honorii Summa Quaestionum ‘De quaestionibus decretalibus tractaturi’ (D.2). Edited by
Niels Becker, Waltraud Kozur, and Karin Miethaner-Vent. Würzburg 2021. 

Quinque Compilationes Antiquae [text-searchable pdf]

Quinque Compilationes Antiquae. Edited by Emil Friedberg. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauschnitz, 1882. Reprint Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1956. Hosted by Colby College.

Bernard of Pavia, Summa decretalium (ca. 1191-1198) [text-searchable pdf]

Bernard of Pavia. Summa Decretalium. Edited by Ernst Adolph Theodor Laspeyres. Regensburg: Josef Manz, 1860. Reprint Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1956. Hosted by Colby College.

Bernardus Compostellanus antiquus, Compilatio Romana (1208) [text-searchable pdf]

Die Dekretalensammlung des Bernardus Compostellanus antiquus. Edited by Heinrich Singer. Vienna: Alfred Holder, 1914. Hosted by Colby College.

Johannes Teutonicus, Apparatus glossatorum in compilationem tertiam [text-searchable html of Books 3-5]

Johannes Teutonicus. Apparatus glossatorum in compilationem tertiam. Edited by Kenneth Pennington. Work in progress hosted and updated by Kenneth Pennington, Catholic University of America.

Honorius III.  Honorii III Romani Pontificis opera omnia quae exstant.  Ed. C. Horoy.  5 Vols.  Bibliotheca Patristica Medii Aevi, vols. 1-5.  Paris, 1879-82. Hosted by Edward A. Reno, III.

Emil Friedberg, Die Canones-sammlungen zwischen Gratian und Bernhard von Pavia [text-searchable pdf]

Emil Friedberg. Die Canones-sammlungen zwischen Gratian und Bernhard von Pavia. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauschnitz, 1897. Reprint Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1958. Hosted by Colby College.

Gratian, Decretum (ca. 1140) [text-searchable pdf] [text-searchable html]

Decretum Magistri Gratiani. Edited by Emil Friedberg. In Corpus Iuris Canonici, volume 1. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1879. Reprint Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1959. PDF version hosted by Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections; HTML version hosted by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Decretum Gratiani, first recension. Edited by Anders Winroth et al. (work in progress). [text-searchable pdf with supplemental material, hosted by Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law]

Paucapalea, Summa (1146-1150) [text-searchable pdf]

Die Summa des Paucapalea über das Decretum Gratiani.  Ed. Johann Friedrich von Schulte. Giessen: Emil Roth, 1890. Hosted by Bibliothèque Cujas, Université de Paris.

Rolandus, Summa (1150s-1160s) [text-searchable pdf]

Rolandus. Summa Magistri Rolandi. Mit Anhang Incerti auctoris quaestiones. Edited by Friedrich Thaner. Innsbruck: Wagner, 1872. Hosted by Colby College.

Summa Parisiensis (1160s) [text-searchable pdf]

The Summa Parisiensis on the Decretum Gratiani. Edited by Terence P. McLaughlin. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1952. Hosted by Google Books.

Stephen of Tournai, Summa (1160s) [text-searchable pdf]

Stephen of Tournai. Die summa über das Decretum Gratiani. Edited by Johann Friedrich von Schulte. Giesen, 1891. Reprint Aalen: Scientia, 1965. Hosted by Colby College.

Rufinus, Summa Decretorum (1168) [text-searchable pdf]

Rufinus. Summa Decretorum. Edited by Heinrich Singer. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh, 1902. Reprint Aalen: Scientia, 1963. Hosted by Colby College.

Simon of Bisignano, Summa (ca. 1177-1179) [text-searchable pdf: text] [text-searchable pdf: prolegomena and indices]

Simon of Bisignano.  Summa. Ed. P. V. Aimone. Fribourg, Switzerland, 2007.  Hosted by the University of Fribourg.

Summa “Animal est substantia” (ca. 1206-1216) [text-searchable pdf]

Animal est substantia. Ed. E. C. Coppens. Unpublished. Hosted by Radboud University.

Note: this work in progress was unfinished at the time of Emile Christian Coppens’ death in 2015. The site contains material related to Distinctiones 1-101 and Causae 1-9.

Bartholomew of Brescia, Glossa ordinaria (post-1234) [high-resolution digital images]

Corpus Iuris Canonici with Glossa Ordinaria. Rome, 1582. Hosted by UCLA Digital Collections.