ABSTRACT
Historians have become increasingly aware of the importance of tracing the routes along which textual material was transmitted. Michel Trigalet at the University of Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur is preparing a publication on the role of the Francigena in the circulation of hagiographic texts. Characteristic of the canon law collections compiled on or near the Francigena in the eleventh century is what Paul Fournier, scarcely disguising his annoyance, called a farrago. The presence of canons extracted from the Sinemuriensis in all of these collections was not the result of a cleric from north-central Italy travelling along the Francigena. Before proceeding to the systematic collections compiled at stations along the Francigena, mention should be made of the chronologically arranged, pseudo-Isidorian Collectiocanonum Brugensis. Although no further pre-Gratian canon law collections were compiled on the northern stations of the Francigena, some of the many appendices found in copies of the Panormia seem to have been added at stations along that route.
