HOLLIS 'Benedictus Levita capitularies' returns two records: Thomas Faulkner's study Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2016) and Collectio CCCC capitulorum: the Collection in 400 Chapters (Catholic University of America Press, 2025), which edits and translates a different Pseudo-Isidorian collection; 'false capitularies Benedictus Levita English' returns nothing. The dMGH Capitularia series lists Ansegis (Capit. N.S. 1), the royal capitularies of 814-840 (Capit. N.S. 4), the Capitula episcoporum and the Collectiones canonum (Regino), but no Benedictus Levita volume, and the edition index of the Cologne Capitularia project has no entry for him. I could therefore verify neither an English translation nor an open electronic text, and record no etext URL rather than an unverified one.
Benedictus Levita forged a supplementary capitulary collection out of genuine royal acts, conciliar canons and invented chapters, and it circulated as law for two centuries; with Pseudo-Isidore it is the central evidence for how canon law was manufactured in the ninth century. No English text of any part of it exists, so the largest single body of forged Carolingian legislation is inaccessible except through German scholarship.
| Record | Citation |
|---|---|
| Collectio CCCC capitulorum : the Collection in 400 chapters: introduction and text | "Collectio CCCC capitulorum : the Collection in 400 chapters: introduction and text." Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2025]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158847609903941 |