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I thank Angus Graham for his kind words. Martin and I continue to work on the collations. I'll be in Munich this summer and will have a much better sense of the south-German mss. after that time. Updates of the edition will be most likely later this spring and then in early fall. Please feel free to contact me or Martin at any time with questions. On the subject of sources, one might consider purchasing Linda Fowler Magerl's excellent Kanones CD Rom (WIP Verlag Bergstrasse 7 93083 Piesenkofen Germany). It is very reasonable ($75.00 or DM 150) and worth the money to anyone working on pre-Gratian canon law. Incipits and explicits of canons in pretty much all the pre-Gratian collections, including, as of last year, the Italian ones. For those interested in formal transmission of canons, it is a must. Hope this is of interest. Bruce Brasington. Angus Graham wrote: > The Herrn Doktor Bruce's on-line text of the Panormia is very nice and a joy to have > available (macte virtute, that man!). With this, and also with the Munich Gratian and > Aleksandr Koptev's on-line Roman Law, we must surely now reconsider some of our > 'sources' for texts we may be working with? For example, we can trace Isidore and > Augustine back to their various works, but, supposing we have a 13c Italian legalist, > then does the man go back to more antique times or does he clutch at (for him) more > modern examples? e.g. from Canon Law, which is stuffed full of these people? After > all, with Gregory IX's Decretals, we already have the (Senecan) example of a dog > returning to its own vomit, and there is much more here (but mostly less vivid). > > I will not apologise if this sounds reductionist: I have Mr of Occam's original razor > in my pants' pocket. > > Angus Graham, de orae sanctae agathae