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Report No. a340

Nicholas de Aquila

fl. c.1190–1217

 

Alternative Names

Nicholas de l’Aigle

 

Biography/Description

Dean of Chichester (c.1197–1217), probably taught canon law at Oxford during the 1190s, alongside with Johannes de Tynmouth and Simon of Southwell. Elected bishop of Chicester in 1209 but never consecrated.

 

Entry by: KP rev AL 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Quaestiones Londinenses. Opinions of Nicholaus form the core of the Quaestiones Londinenses, q.v.

 
No. 2

Glossa. A gloss signed ‘N. de Aqi.’ has been found in an English Decretum manuscript and printed.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Quaestiones Londinenses.

 
Manuscript

Leipzig, Universitätsbibl. 975, fol. 219–233v

 
 

a340Txt1Oxford, Bodleian Libr. Laud Misc. 646, fol. 184–187v (ends at D.79 c.8)

 
 

Paris, BN lat. 4288, fol. 77–138

 
 

Paris, BN lat. 14320, fol. 76–97v

 
 

a340Txt1Paris, Bibl. Mazarine 1041, fol. 97–120v (ends at C.33 q.3)

 
 

Worcester, Cath. Libr. F 159, fol. 153–76v

 
No. 2

Glossa.

 
Manuscript

Cambridge, Gonville & Caius Coll. 676, fol. 129va

 

Text(s) – Modern Editions

No. 2

Glossa.

 
Modern Editions

Ed. S. Kuttner and E. Rathbone in Traditio, 7 (1949/51) 347.

 

Literature

A. Emden, A Biographical register of the Uinversity of Oxford to A. D. 1500 (Oxford 1957) 1.571.

S. Kuttner, ‘Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus’, Traditio, 1 (1943) 317, 320, 325, 347.

S. Kuttner, Repertorium 252.