ABSTRACT
The ‘collection intermédiare’ or ‘intermediate collection’, both as a phrase and a phenomenon, is well known to historians of medieval canon law in the era before Gratian or, as is recognised, Gratians. Paul Fournier ‘intermediate collections’ and other minor collections are only slowly coming to receive this broader attention, and perhaps explored less in and of themselves and more in terms of their role as a link between major collections of the eleventh and early twelfth centuries. This is regrettable in that the less widely disseminated or ‘intermediary’ compilations can reveal so much about compilers, readers and the transmission of texts, as well as canonistic activity more broadly in Europe during this period. Begun between 1050 and 1073, the manuscript was first augmented between 1078 and 1080, and later completed between 1081 and 1120. The collection likely remained at the same scriptorium in central Italy throughout this period, probably in Tuscany and perhaps even in the diocese of Lucca.
