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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 2 Collections and/or Records:

MS 145: Summa summarum sive Speculum iuris canonici, by William of Pagula, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 145
Contents MS 145 contains one of only thirteen known extant copies of a 14th-century text by William of Pagula [Paull], a theologian, writer, and English parish priest. This massive text containing five books is a manual on canon law and theology, composed sometime in or around 1318-22. The text in nearly complete in MS 145, although the final book, Liber v wants three chapters.f. 1r: Prologue, beginning with the words Incipit Prologus. Ad...
Dates: 14th century

MS 216: Fragment of Summary of the Decretals of Gregory IX, 13th century

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Identifier: MS 216
Contents This is a fragment (12 folios) of a summary of the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of jurisprudence of Catholic canon law. It was compiled by Spanish Dominican friar Raymond of Penyafort, under the orders of pope Gregory IX. Contains 1 folio of Book I and 11 of Book III (Title xxxiv, De voti redemptione, to Title xli, De celebratione missarum). ...
Dates: 13th century