Canon law
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered general works on canon law and works on the canon law of the Catholic Church
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
A collection of canonical maxims from Boniface VIII's De Regulis Iuris, mid/late 14th-early 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 182/f. 25r-v
Scope and Contents
A collection of 56 legal maxims in latin over two pages, from the book of canonical law De Regulis Iuris, promulgated in 1298 by Pope Boniface VIII. It starts with rule 33, 'Mutare consilium quis non potest in alterius detrimentum' ('No one can change his mind (intention) at the expense of another'), and ends with rule 88, 'Certum est quod is committit in legem, qui legis verba complectens, contra...
Dates:
mid/late 14th-early 15th century
Abbreviated Decretum Gratiani, by Gratian, early 14th century
Part
Identifier: MS 139/ ff. 1r-7v
Contents
MS 139 contains an abbreviated version of a work on canon law by the mid-12th century canon lawer and teacher, Gratian. Gratian's original work, a text that organised and compiled various sources and teachings on canonical law, was completed in a second version in the 1150s, a decade after the work first appeared. Due to its practical use for teaching on canon law, this second version of Gratian's work became widely copied and read in the medieval period, and is known as the 'Decretum...
Dates:
early 14th century
Collection of Canon Law texts , 1496
part
Identifier: MS 208/ff.168r-172r
Contents
This section contains a miscellaneous collection of Canon Law texts and is titled Extracta a Canone videlicet decretis, Causa quarta, questione iii. It starts on f. 168r and contains 17 titles. After a Tabula, the text begins with the words Quid vir in excommunicatione constitutus.This section ends on f. 172r with the words sed potius est ethica quam...
Dates:
1496
Composite manuscript including six texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 141
Contents
MS 141 contains six texts, mostly in the same hand, with the exception of f. 1. The specific folios containing these texts are listed below, and the texts are described separately under these headings.
ff. 1r-v: A tabula, seemingly beginning on f. 1v, and ending on 1r (bound on the wrong side)
ff. 2r-v: A misplaced leaf, should follow f. 27 in this manuscript
ff. 3r-5r:...
Dates:
15th century
Constitutiones Clementinae [incomplete] by Pope Clement V, early 14th century
Part
Identifier: MS 139/ ff. 104r-109r
Contents
The last folios in MS 139, ff. 104r-109r, appear to be a shortened version of the early 14th-century document of canon law, the Constitutiones Clementinae, the 'Clementine Constitutions' produced by Pope Clement V. Given the dating of MS 139 to the early 14th century, such quick dissemination of Clement V's text, evidenced by its presence in this manuscript perhaps attests to its immediate identifiction as an influential document of medieval canon law. The...
Dates:
early 14th century
Decretales Gregorii IX, 2nd half of the 13th century
Part
Identifier: MS 300/ff. 1r-273v
Scope and Contents
The first text of MS 300 is a copy of the very famous and influential 13th-century work of canon law, the Decretales Gregorii IX (Decretals of Pope Gregory IX) ordered by Pope Gregory IX, and put together by his chaplain and confessor, Raymond of Peñafort. As a very important text on Church law, the 'Decretales Gregorii IX' was the subject of many commentaries and glosses by later Church scholars.The text starts on f. 1r with the words: '...
Dates:
2nd half of the 13th century
Decretales Gregorii IX, with gloss by Bernard of Parma, 13th-14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 142
Contents
MS 142 is a copy of the very famous and influential 13th-century work of canon law, the Decretales Gregorii IX (Decretals of Pope Gregory IX) ordered by Pope Gregory IX, and put together by his chaplain and confessor, Raymond of Peñafort. As a very important text on Church law, the 'Decretales Gregorii IX' was the subject of many commentaries and glosses by later Church scholars. One such work on the 'Decretales' was completed by Bernard of Parma], and it is...
Dates:
13th-14th century
Decretales Innocentii IV, 2nd half of the 13th century
Part
Identifier: MS 300/ff. 274r-282r
Scope and Contents
The second text of MS 300 is a copy of the thirty-seven of the the forty-two decrees of Innocent IV, printed by Mansi, Conciclia, xxiii. 652-74 after the bull Cum nuper of 1245. The decrees absent from this copy are nos. (7) Grandi non, (23) Ad apostolicae, (24) Abbate sane, (30) Non solum, (41) Dilecto...Praeterea cum. No. (33) preceds no. (32). No. (27), Cum suffraganeorum, is much longer than in edition, continuing after ...
Dates:
2nd half of the 13th century
Excerpt from the Rosella casuum by Battista Trovamala, early 16th century
part
Identifier: MS 114/ff. 19v-24v
Contents
This passage on caritas (charity) is taken from the manual known as Rosella casuum, a handbook of moral theology which contained several examples of the correct application of provisions of canon law. The manual was written by the Franciscan friar Baptista Trovamala (or Baptista de Salis), active in Northern Italy between the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century, and it was conceived especially for the...
Dates:
early 16th century
Excerpt on the third evil of the clergy from De Pluralitate Beneficiorum, by John of Legnano, c 1455
Part
Identifier: MS 138/ff. 252r-256v
Contents
This section contains an excerpt from De Pluralitate Beneficiorum by John of Legnano about the third evil of the clergy. It starts on f.252r with the words Tertium malum est and ends on f.256v with qui est malus clericus.
Dates:
c 1455