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Report No. a574

Exceptiones contra litteras et priuilegia

ante 1234

 

Alternative Names

Verborum superfluitate penitus resecata

 

Biography/Description

A concise ordo iudiciarius setting forward the various exceptiones, or procedural objections, that could be made in a case. Survives in at least three versions, the earliest of which predates the Liber Extra. The last version was widespread. Attributed to Innocent IV in early edition, but attribution has little to no historical basis.

 

Entry by: KP rev AL 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Exceptiones contra litteras et priuilegia, ante 1234.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Exceptiones contra litteras et priuilegia, ante 1234.

 
Manuscript

a574Txt1Saint-Omer, BM 259, fols. 47ra–49v (earliest version)

 
 

a574Txt1Madrid, BN 243, fols. 7va–10ra (earliest version)

 
 

a574Txt1Gniezno, Arch. Kap. 50, fols. 65r–66v (different version with incipit similar to Petrus de Ilerda’s Breuiarium)

 
 

a574Txt1Madrid, BN 12691, fols. 51ra–52vb (different version with incipit similar to Petrus de Ilerda’s Breuiarium)

 
 

a574Txt1London, BL Addit. 4907, fols. 57ra–59rb (different version with incipit similar to Petrus de Ilerda’s Breuiarium)

 

Text(s) – Early Printed Editions

No. 1

Exceptiones contra litteras et priuilegia, ante 1234.

 
Early Printed Editions

Tractatus universi iuris: Exceptiones Innocentii IV. Venezia, 1584, 3.2.104ra–105va. Preserves text in later version than the manuscripts listed and attributes it to Innocent IV.

 

Literature

L. Fowler-Magerl, Ordo iudiciorum vel ordo iudiciarius: Begriff und Literaturgattung (Ius commune: Sonderhefte 19; Frankfurt am Main 1984) 216–18.