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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 20 Collections and/or Records:

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 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

MS 143: Libellus de iuridictione ecclesiastica by Pierre Bertrand, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 143
Contents The text contained in MS 143 is a copy of the work by 14th-century French cardinal and canon lawyer, Pierre Bertrand, titled Libellus de iuridictione ecclesiastica. Bertrand was active in the court of Philip V of France, and served as chancellor to Queen Joan of Burgundy, and also endeavoured on several diplomatic missions for the papacy. This text, of which MS 143 is a copy, is the only text of Cardinal Bertrand to have been published. It is introduced in MS...
Dates: 15th century

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 146: Summa de casibus conscientie by Bartholomew of San Concordio, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 146
Contents MS 146 is a text by Bartholomew of San Concordio (a small town near Pisa). Bartholomew was a mid 13th-14th century Italian Dominican canonist who produced two notable works, one of which is copied in MS 146. The Summa de Casibus conscientie is an alphabetically arranged work on canon law. It was widely disseminated in the medieval period, as it is particularly practical in comparison to many other existing manuals of medieval canon law, and it presents a...
Dates: 15th 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

Provinciale by William Lyndwood, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 149/ff. 1r-27v
Contents William Lyndwood was a distinguished 15th century English canon lawyer. His successful career led him to the role of principal adviser on all issues of ecclesiastical law to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and as a result he had a close relationship with Archbishop Henry Chichele. Lyndwood's primary and most known work is his commentary on the collection of ecclesiastical decrees issued for the province of Canterbury by the generations of archbishops. This text is known as the 'Provinciale',...
Dates: 15th century

Summa introductoria by Bonaguida d'Arezzo, early 14th century

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Identifier: MS 139/ ff. 8r-53r
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ff. 8r-53r of MS 139 contain the Summa introductoria by the mid-13th century Bonaguida d'Arezzo. Bonaguida composed a manual, of which these folios in MS 139 are a copy, on procedures of the medieval church court and law. It spans 45 folios in MS 139, ending on f. 53r with the words utilia plurima praetermisi ipsius auxilis fretus bonitatis. Explicit summa magistri bonajuncta. De aricio. Deo gracias.

Dates: early 14th century

Text from the commentary by Peter of Ancarano on the Decretales Gregorii IX, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 147/ff. 8r-55r
Contents ff. 8r-55r of MS 147 contain Peter of Ancarano's commentary on Book V of the Decretales Gregorii IX. Peter of Ancarano was a late-14th/early 15th-century canon lawyer who spent most of his career in Bologna. He followed in the line of several other 13th and 14th century jurists who produced commentaries on the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX. The Decretals of Gregory IX was produced in the first half of the 13th-century, and it formed the basis of medieval canon...
Dates: 15th century

Tractatus de interdicto ecclesiastico by Johannes Calderinus, 14th-15th century

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Identifier: MS 111/ff. 192v-215r
Contents This section contains a theological tract, entitled Tractatus de interdicto ecclesiastico, by Johannes Calderinus, who lived in Bologna in the 14th century.The Tabula starts on f. 192v and ends on f. 194v.The Incipit, on f. 195r, reads In nomine Domini Amen. Incipit tractatus de interdicto ecclesiastico domini Johannis Calderini doctoris decretorum.The...
Dates: 14th-15th century