ABSTRACT
This chapter examines one of the many discoveries made during the last decade of common research: marginalia in selected manuscripts. The Dresden manuscript is in many ways the most typical of the wider tradition: one hand, the rubricator’s, marking just a few texts, in this case only two. While both highlighted texts treat questions of law and canonical practice—the distribution of gifts and the independence of ecclesiastical election—there is certainly no apparent program. By the time Panormia was glossed, commentators on Gratian had begun to transform that undifferentiated tradition into the first handbooks of canonical process, the ordines iudiciorum. Glosses to canons concerning legal procedure in our manuscript reveal a perceptive reader, trained in the artes and familiar with aspects of legal procedure. The glosses highlight how legal study continued to consider older canonical collections such as Bishop Ivo’s Panormia.
