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Report No. a489

Rodoicus Modicipassus

d. c.1201–1204

 

Alternative Names

Rotbertus Modicipassus; Rodoricus Modicipassus; Robertus de Parui Passu; Robert au Petit Pas

 

Biography/Description

A decretist, probably French, of whom little is known. Landau has attributed the decretist commentary ‘Et est sciendum’ to him.

 

Entry by: KP rev AL 2015

 

Text(s)

 
No. 1

Quaestiones Barcinonenses IV. Other quaestiones of Rodoicus are to be found in the quaestiones Barcinonenses I, Pragenses I, and Bambergenses I.

 
No. 2

Commentary on De consecratione. See Alanus Anglicus, Expleto tractatu de matrimonio.

 

Text(s) – Manuscripts

No. 1

Quaestiones Barcinonenses IV.

 
Manuscript

Barcelona, Arch. Corona Aragón S. Cugat 55, fol. 58ra–b

 

Text(s) – Modern Editions

No. 1

Quaestiones Barcinonenses IV.

 
Modern Editions

Ed. J. Brundage in Studies in medieval culture, 5 (1975) 87–95.

 

Literature

P. Landau, ‘The Origin of the Regula iuris ‘Quod omnes tangit’ in the Anglo-Norman School of Canon Law during the Twelfth Century’, BMCL, 32 (2015) 19–35.

P. Landau, ‘Der Dekretglossenapparat Et est sciendum–ein Werk des Kanonisten Rodoicus Modicipassus’, RIDC, 24 (2013) 19–26.

S. Kuttner, ‘Retractationes VII’, in Gratian and the Schools of Law (London 1983) 11, 13.

J. Brundage, ‘The quaestiones of Rotbertus Modicipassus in a Barcelona Manuscript’, Studies in Medieval Culture, 5 (1975) 87–95.

S. Kuttner, ‘Rodoicus ou Rotbertus Modicipassus (Parvipassus)’, in DDC (1965) 7.701–702.

G. Couvreur, Les pauvres ont-ils des droits? Recherches sur le vol en cas d’extrême nécessité depuis la Concordia de Gratien (1140) jusqu’à Guillaume d’Auxerre († 1321) (Analecta Gregoriana 111; Roma 1961) 60.

G. Fransen, ‘Un commentaire au “De consecratione”’, Traditio, 13 (1957) 508–509.

S. Kuttner, ‘Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus’, Traditio, 1 (1943) 281–82.

S. Kuttner, Repertorium 20, 45.

F. Gillmann, ‘Richardus Anglikus als Glossator’, AKKR, 107 (1927) 588–90.