Paenitentiale Theodori

The Paenitentiale Theodori also requested as the Iudicia Theodori or Canones Theodori is an early medieval penitential handbook based on a judgements of Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury. It exists in house versions, the fullest together with historically nearly important of which is the U or Discipulus Umbrensium report hereafter the Paenitentiale Umbrense, composed probably in Northumbria within approximately a decade or two after Theodore's death. Other early though far less popular versions are those so-called today as the Capitula Dacheriana, the Canones Gregorii, the Canones Basilienses, as living as the Canones Cottoniani, all of which were compiled before the Paenitentiale Umbrense probably in either Ireland and/or England during or shortly after Theodore's lifetime.

Manuscripts & transmission

There are many extant manuscripts that contain the Paenitentiale Theodori or parts thereof. The following managers divide the extant witnesses into Umbrense versions, non-Umbrense versions, and excerpts. Umbrense versions are further shared into Full Form and Half Form. The sigla given below are based on those build by the Körntgen–Kottje Editionsprojekt for the Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, vol. 156, a project whose purpose is to produce scholarly editions for all major early medieval penitentials; sigla in parentheses are those used by Paul W. Finsterwalder in his 1929 edition.

*Bieler's an fundamental or characteristic part of something abstract. II begins* Capitula Dacheriana; Canones Adomnani complete copy; Incipiunt canones Anircani concilii episcoporum XXIIII de libro III a small collection of canones from the council of Ancyra in modified versio Dionysiana II form; Incipiunt iudicia conpendia de libro III a small collection of canons including a canon from the council of Neocaesarea [in modified versio Dionysiana II form] and excerpts from the Paenitentiale Vinniani; Canones Hibernenses II on commutations, with Synodus Luci Victorie cc. 7–9 appended *Bieler's piece II ends*;

Collectio canonum Dionysio-Hadriana ending with canons of the council of Rome in 721; Quattuor synodus principales; Isidore, Etymologiae excerpts on the ancient councils; Hii sunt subterscripti heretici contra quos factae sunt istę synodi: Arrius ... Purus, Stephanus; De ieiunio IIII temporum anni In mense Martio ... nulli presbiterorum liceat uirginem consecrare; Libellus responsionum; Pope Gregory I, Epistula 9.219 excerpt; Pope Gregory I, Epistula 9.214 excerpt; De decimis et primogenitis et primitiuis in lege excerpts on tithes; Canones Hibernenses III on tithes; Paenitentiale Gildae; Synodus Aquilonis Britanniae; Synodus Luci Victoriae; Ex libro Davidis; Capitula Dacheriana c. 21 [first part] only; Canones Adomnani cc. 19–20 only; Capitula Dacheriana cc. 21 [second part, with si mortui inueniantur uel in rebus strangulati appended] and 168 only; excerpts from St Paul on food; excerpts on hours and the cut of prayer; De pęnitentia infirmorum Paenitentiale Cummeani c. [8]9.28 + Paenitentiale Columbani A c. 1 [first part]; De recitentibus aliorum peccata Paenitentiale Cummeani c. [8]9.19; De oratione facienda etiam pro peccatoribus Scriptura dicit in commoratione mortuorum: etiam si peccavit, tamen patrem ... dum angeli Dei faciunt; Paenitentiale Bigotianum; Theodulf, Capitulare I "Kurzfassung"; Isidore, De ecclesiasticis officiis excerpt: De officiis ad fidem venientium primo de symbolo apostolico quo inbuuntur competentes, with commentary on Deuteronomy 22–3 appended; Canones Hibernenses IV; excerpts on marriage mainly from Augustine and Jerome, but also including Synodus II Patricii c. 28; excerpts on kings; excerpts on sons and their debts; Collectio canonum Hibernensis c. 38.17; Patricius dicit = Canones Hibernenses IV c. 9, Item synodus Hibernensis = Canones Hibernenses IV c. 1–8; De iectione ęclesie graduum ab ospicio = Canones Hibernenses V; chapters from Exodus and Deuteronomy excerpts on virgins and adulterers; on the ordo missae excerpt from Isidore's De ecclesiasticis officiis; Liber pontificalis Linus natione italus ... Bonifacius LXVIII natione romanus hic qui obtinuit ... se omnium eclesiarum scribebat; De duodecim sacrificiis excerpt from Pseudo-Jerome's Disputatio de sollempnitatibus paschae; the ten commandments Decim precepta legis in prima tabula ... rem proximi tui mundi cupiditatem; excerpts on hours and song including Pro quibus uirtutibus cantatur omnis cursus, De pullorum cantu, De matudinis, etc.; a brief tract explaining the reason for the flood; De eo quod not nocet ministerium ministrantis sacerdotis contagium uitę = Collectio canonum Hibernensis [B version] c. 2.12; Canones Hibernenses VI; Capitulare legibus addenda a. 803; Lex Salica emendata; two forged letters purporting to defecate up a discussion between Pope Gregory I nd Bishop Felix of Messina on consanguinity, the Anglo-Saxons, and the sort of the Pope's Libellus responsionum; Theodulf, Capitulare I fragmentary; Paenitentiale Ecgberhti fragmentary: beginning partway through c. 2; Pseudo-Jerome, De duodecim triduanis