Pseudo Penitential of Cummean

PAENITENTIALE EXCARPSUS CUMMEANI

Carolingian text, 8th century (290 canons)

Manuscripts:

A list of all indentified MSS with copies of the Exarpsus has been published by

Rob Meens (2014), Appendix 2: The Manuscripts of the Excarpsus Cummeani, in Rob Meens, Penance in Medieval Europe: 600-1200. Cambridge: CUP, pp. 229-230.

Manuscripts online:

Cologne, Dombibliotek, 91, f.90v-112r. (E.A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, 8/1155)

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6243, f. 217v -229r.

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 22288.

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 29505/1.

Editions:

Patrick Fleming (1667), ‘Cummeani Abbatis Scoto-Hiberni Liber de Mensura Poenitentiarum’, in Collectanea Sacra, ed. Patrick Fleming (Louvain), pp. 197−210.

Patrologia Latina 87 (1851) pp. 977−98.

F.W.H. Wasserscheleben, ‘Poenitentiale Cummeani’, in Die Bussordnungen der Abendändischen Kirche Nebst Einer Rechtsgeschichtlichen Einleitnung Herausg,  ed. F.W.H. Wasserscheleben, (Halle, 1851), pp. 460−93. 

H.J. Schmitz  ed., Die Bussbücher und die kanonische Bussdisciplin der Kirche, 2 vols, (Mainz, 1883), i. 611−45; (Düsseldorf, 1898), ii. 597−644.

O.S.B O’Heiming, ‘Excarpsus Cummeani in hs Berlin, Deutsche Staastsbibliothek, Phillips 1667’, in Liber Sacramentorum Augustodunensis CCSL 159B, O.S.B O’Heiming ed. (Brepols, 1904), pp. 206-314.

Michael D. Elliot, ‘Excarpsus Cummeani (Copenhagen 58)’, Carolingian Canon law project, (Toronto, 2011).

Ludger Körntgen, Paenitential Excarpsus Cummeani, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 156D, (forthcoming).

Translations:

John Thomas McNeill and Helena Margaret Gamer, ‘Prologue’, Medieval Handbooks of Penance: A translation of the principal “Libri Peonitentiales” and Selections from related documents (New York, 1938, rep. 1990), pp. 267-70.

Elaine Pereira Farrell, ‘Translation of part of the Excarpsus Cummeani’, in Rob Meens and Elaine Pereira Farrell eds. Penitential Books from the Middle Ages. Reading Medieval Sources (Brill, forthcoming).

Commentaries:

Patrick Fleming (1667), Collectanea Sacra, pp. 193−96.

James Kenney (1929), The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: Vol. 1 Ecclesiastical, pp. 243−44, no. 77.

McNeill and Gamer, Medieval Handbooks of Penance, pp. 266−67.

Studies:

Franz Bernd Asbach (1975), ‘Das Poenitentiale Remenseund der soger. Excarpsus Cummeani: Überlieferung, Quellen and Entwicklung zweier kontinentaler Bussbücher aus der 1. Hälfte des 8. Jahrhunderts’ (Dissertation, Regensburg).

Allen Frantzen (1979), ‘The significance of the Frankish Penitentials’, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 30 no. 04

Rob Rob (1994), Het tripartite boeteboek: Overlevering en betekenis van vroegmiddleleuwse biechtvoorschriften.

David Ganz (1990), Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance (Sigmaringen: Thorbecke).

Ludger Körntgen (2004), ‘Der Excarpsus Cummeani, ein Bußbuch aus Corbie’, in: O. Münsch and T. Zotz (eds.), Scientia veritatis. Festschrift für Hubert Mordek zum 65. Geburtstag. (Ostfildern), pp. 59–75.

Ludger Körntgen (2006), ‘Kanonisches recht und Busspraxis. Zu Kontext und Funktion des Paenitentiale Excarpsus Cummeani’, in: W. P. Müller and M. E. Sommar (eds.), Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition. A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington (Washington), pp. 17–32. 

Rob Meens (2000), ‘The Oldest Manuscript Witness of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis’, Peritia 14, pp. 1–19.

Rob Meens (2014), Rob Meens Penance in Medieval Europe: 600-1200. Cambridge: CUP.