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Report No. a240

Goffredus de Trano

d. 1245

 

Alternative Names

Goffredo, da Trani (LC); Goffredus Tranensis; Gottofredo da Trani; Geoffrey of Trani

 

Biography/Description

A student of the renowned civilian Azo, Goffredus was professor of Roman law at Naples, until he was appointed auditor of the Roman Rota in 1240. In 1244, Innocent IV, his former fellow student at Bologna, elevated him to the cardinalate. Goffredus died in 1245. Goffredus wrote the first full apparatus on the Decretales Gregorii IX, before 1243. Then, before his death, Goffredus completely rewrote the work as the well known Summa super titulis decretalium for use by pastors engaged in the cura animarum. Goffredus also wrote glosses on the Novellae of Innocent IV.

 

Entry by: KP rev AL 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Apparatus glossarum in Decretales Gregorii IX.

 
No. 2

Summa super titulis decretalium.

 
No. 3

Glossae ad Constitutiones 8. On 8 constitutions or novellae of Innocent IV.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Apparatus glossarum in Decretales Gregorii IX.

 
Manuscript

a240Txt1Firenze, BN Princ. Ii.i.417 (gloss with text of Liber Extra)

 
 

a240Txt1Madrid, BN 8982 (identification uncertain)

 
 

a240Txt1Milano, Bibl. Ambrosiana Z.50, fol. 9r–407 (in the form of a marginal gloss)

 
 

a240Txt1Monte Cassino, Bibl. Abbazia 266 (Digital edition by Martin Bertram, gloss without the text.)

 
 

a240Txt1Paris, BN lat. 15402 (gloss with text)

 
 

a240Txt1Seu d’Urgell, Bibl. Cabildo 2037 (with rich glosses)

 
 

Venezia, BN VIII.28

 
 

Wien, ÖNB 2197

 
No. 2

Summa super titulis decretalium.

 
Manuscript

Arras, BM 253

 
 

a240Txt2Avignon, BM 122 (incomplete)

 
 

Bamberg, Staatsbibl. Can. 00 [P.II.22]

 
 

Bamberg, Staatsbibl. Can. 48

 
 

Bamberg, Staatsbibl. Can. 00 [P.II.24]

 
 

Berlin, Staatsbibl. lat. fol. 82

 
 

Wrocław, Bibl. Univ. II.F.67 m.

 
 

Chartres, BM 284

 
 

Chartres, BM 367

 
 

a240Txt2Chartres, BM 368 (2nd work)

 
 

Darmstadt, Landesbibl. 341

 
 

Darmstadt, Landesbibl. 680

 
 

Douai, BM 560

 
 

Erlangen, Universitätsbibl. 339

 
 

Firenze, Bibl. Laurenz. LXXVII 15

 
 

a240Txt2Firenze, Bibl. Laurenz. Plut. 3 (olim S. Croce III) sin.7 (The library currently identifies this manuscript with the Plutei designation, but the literature often refers to it with the S. Croce one.)

 
 

Grenoble, BM 280 (489)

 
 

Grenoble, BM 402 (490)

 
 

Halle, Universitäts- u. Landesbibl. Ye., fol. 33

 
 

Hildesheim, Dombibl. 17

 
 

Innsbruck, Universitätsbibl. 253

 
 

Köln, Dombibl. 135

 
 

Köln, Historisches Arch. 78

 
 

Laon, BM 363

 
 

Leipzig, Universitätsbibl. 1000

 
 

Leipzig, Universitätsbibl. 1001

 
 

Leipzig, Universitätsbibl. 1018

 
 

Melk, Stiftsbibl. D.39

 
 

München, BSB Clm 741

 
 

München, BSB Clm 5300

 
 

München, BSB Clm 5301

 
 

München, BSB Clm 8008

 
 

München, BSB Clm 9549

 
 

Olomouc, Státni Archiv III.20

 
 

Olomouc, Státni Archiv VI.302

 
 

Paris, BN lat. 12453

 
 

Paris, BN 15411

 
 

Paris, BN 15412

 
 

Paris, BN 17529

 
 

Paris, BN 18224

 
 

Praha, Univ. Knihovna VII.T.22

 
 

Saint-Omer, BM 495

 
 

Saint-Omer, BM 553

 
 

Wien, Schottenstift Bibl. I.C.6.11

 
 

Toulouse, BM B.224

 
 

Tours, BM 560

 
 

Troyes, BM 456

 
 

Troyes, BM 809

 
 

Troyes, BM 1356

 
 

Troyes, BM 1448

 
 

Troyes, BM 1746

 
 

Wien, ÖNB 2076

 
 

Wien, ÖNB 2137

 
 

Wien, ÖNB 2208

 
 

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl. 1

 
 

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl. 14 Aug.f

 
No. 3

Glossae ad Constitutiones 8.

 
Manuscript

Fulda, Landesbibl. D.10

 
 

Siena, Maffei Libr. [No shelfmark]

 
 

Wien, ÖNB 2140

 

Text(s) – Early Printed Editions

No. 1

Apparatus glossarum in Decretales Gregorii IX.

 
Early Printed Editions

Lyon, 1519. Reprint Aalen 1992.

 
 

Venezia, 1586.

 
No. 2

Summa super titulis decretalium.

 
Early Printed Editions

Lyon, 1519 (online). Reprint Aalen 1968, 1992.

 

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