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Report No. a380 |
Petrus Pictauiensis |
early 13th c. |
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| Alternative Names |
Petrus Pictaviensis; Pierre de Poitiers; Peter of Poitiers; Petrus von Poitiers |
Biography/Description |
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A canon of Saint-Victor at Paris, composed a penitential manual, c.1215–20, for members of his order. Not to be confused with the somewhat older contemporary of the same name who was the author of a book of sentences and chancellor of Paris until his death in 1205. |
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Entry by: KP rev AL 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Liber poenitentialis. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
| No. 1 |
Liber poenitentialis. |
| Manuscript | Erlangen, Universitätsbibl. 399 |
El Escorial, Bibl. San Lorenzo I.III.7 |
Paris, BN lat. 715 |
Paris, Univ. Paris, Bibl. Sorbonne 124 |
Literature |
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J. Goering, ‘The Internal Forum and the Literature of Penance and Confession’, in The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140–1234: From Gratian to the Decretals fo Pope Gregory IX, W. Hartmann and K. Pennington, ed. (History of Medieval Canon Law 6; Washington DC 2008) 418. |
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C. Cheney, ‘La date de la composition du “Liber poenitentialis” attribué à Pierre de Poitiers’, RTAM, 9 (1937) 401–404. |
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A. Teetaert, ‘Le Liber poenitentialis de Pierre de Poitiers’, in Aus der Geisteswelt des Mittelalters. Festschrift Grabmann, A. Lang, ed. (Münster 1935) 310–331. |
