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Report No. a327

Marriage Tract: ‘Summa de matrimonio Magistri Vacarii

c.1166–1170

 

Alternative Names

Duo sola sunt que audacem me semper faciunt ad scribendum

 

Biography/Description

The attribution to Vacarius is solid. Its connection with the well-known Anstey case seems likely. If that is right, then a connection with the second iteration of the Anstey case, in the early 1160’s, also seems likely.

 

Entry by: KP rev AL 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Marriage Tract: ‘Summa de matrimonio Magistri Vacarii’.

 

Literature

R. Weigand, ‘Kanonistische Ehetraktate aus dem 12. Jahrhundert’, in Proceedings Strasbourg (MIC C–4; Città del Vaticano 1971) 73–74.

F. Maitland, ‘Magistri Vacarii ‘Summa de Matrimonio’’, Law Quarterly Review, 13 (1897) 133–43, 270–87. (Introduction on 133–143; text on 270–287.)