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Canon law

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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 3 Collections and/or Records:

MS 140: Summa Super Titulis Decretalium [incomplete], by Geoffrey of Trani, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 140
Contents This manuscript contains a section of a text by 13th century Italian jurist, Geoffrey of Trani. The text found in part in MS 140 is Trani's most famous work, theSumma super titulis decretalium. It is a summary of the Decretals of Gregory IX, an extremely influential text on canon law produced under the direction of Pope Gregory IX in the 1230s, a few decades before the career of Geoffrey of Trani. The copy of Trani's work...
Dates: 14th century

MS 141: Composite manuscript including six texts, 15th century

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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

MS 142: Decretales Gregorii IX, with gloss by Bernard of Parma, 13th-14th century

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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 PeƱafort. 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