ABSTRACT
Among the many fields to which Professor Roger E. Reynolds has contributed insights, the study of illuminated liturgical and canonical manuscripts looms large; it is an area typical of Reynolds' interdisciplinary interests, and of his expertise in both early medieval law and liturgy. A second field in which Reynolds' contribution has been noteworthy has been the study of the south-Italian Collectio canonum in V libris or Collection in Five Books (5L), a canonical collection compiled in the third decade of the eleventh century. The manuscript contains, besides a complete copy of 5L, opening and closing gatherings of related but distinct canonical and liturgical excerpts, and a second gathering with depictions of the Ascension, six ecumenical councils, and forty-five individual portraits of figures involved in the making of ecclesiastical law. One would expect prefaces and introductory remarks to encapsulate what canonical compilers thought most significant about the law, including which authorities they ranked most highly.
