Die Register Innocenz' III. 9. Band: 9. Pontifikatsjahr 1206/1207. Texte und Indices. Edited by Andrea Sommerlechner, together with Othmar Hageneder, Christoph Egger, Rainer Murauer, and Herwig Weigl. [Publikationen des Historischen Instituts beim Osterreichischen Kulturforum in Rom, II. Abteilung: Quellen, 1. Reihe.] (Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2004. Pp. xc, 542, 6 plates. euro150 paperback.) In the 1950's, a new scholarly edition of the registers of Pope Innocent III was undertaken in a co-operative arrangement between the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The basic texts were found in Reg. Vat. 4, 5, 7, 7A, and 8, containing the registers for Innocent's pontifical years 1,2, 5-16. The registers for years 3, 4,17-19 are missing or surviving only in fragments, and the projected edition was intended to provide a volume for each of the years for which there was a complete register. The volume for the first year appeared in 1964, with its corresponding index in 1968. The second appeared in 1979 (index, 1983). Then volume 5 (for the fifth year) was published in 1993 (index, 1994), followed by 6 (1995), 7 (1997), 8 (2001), and now 9 (2004), all four with indexes included. What first began to seem like a century-long project now shows promise of being completed in the life-time of scholars living today. The slow rate of publication partly reflects the very thorough and detailed scholarship the editors have required of themselves. The text provided in this volume is based on the manuscript register for the ninth year (February 22,1206-February 21,1207), as found in Reg.Vat. 7. It was a year in which papal business continued apace, despite the fact that Innocent spent four summer months in Ferentino. It includes three letters (Reg. 9:3, 11, 41) that actually date from early 1206, his eighth year, and two letters sent to, rather than from, the pope (Reg. 9:15,93). The original design for the project has stood up remarkably well, so the format for the edition has scarcely varied throughout the published volumes. An introduction providing a detailed description of the manuscript and of the edition is followed by various tables and a bibliography. The numbering of the letters departs slightly from that found in Migne's Patrologia Latina (vol. 215), so that the numbers of later letters are followed by the numbers in Migne.like this: 269 (271). For each letter, there is a summary in German, a list of all known texts of the letter, manuscript and published, and a list of some published catalogs where it is cited. Marginal notes identify biblical passages in the letter. A first set of footnotes comments on the manuscript-erasures, marginal markings, textual variations from other versions. The text of many of these letters exists in the original sent to addressees or else in copies of those originals (the recipient-tradition, Empfangeruberlteferung). Some texts were also reproduced in whole or in part in decretal collections. The editors have made use of many of these versions and have noted all significant variant readings, especially variations from the text found in Migne. In the case of five letters where the originals are extant the editors found no significant variations from the registered texts. A second set of footnotes (the Sachkommentar) provides historical explanations of the contents of the letter, especially identifying people and places mentioned, together with corresponding bibliographic references. References to Roman and canon law (as well as to other works) are also identified, providing an invaluable resource for legal historians. In addition to indexes of addressees and of names in general, other tables enable the user to see how different scribes and rubricators participated in the production of the register, and which of the included letters were used in the various decretal collections that followed. There is a list of formulaic expressions that are commonly abbreviated in the registered letters, as well as an alphabetical list of incipits. …