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Report No. a497 |
Simon de Bisignano |
fl. 1174–1179 |
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Alternative Names |
Simon of Bisignano; Simon von Bisignano |
Biography/Description |
Taught canon law at Bologna during the 1170s. Besides his glosses, he composed a Summa on Gratian’s Decretum which was the first to make significant use of recent papal legislation (extravagantes). The work was completed c.1177–79. |
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Entry by: KP rev AL 2015 |
Text(s) |
No. 1 | Glosses on the Decretum. |
No. 2 | Summa decretorum. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
No. 2 |
Summa decretorum. |
Manuscript | Augsburg, Staats- u. Stadtbibl. 1, fol. 1–72 |
Bamberg, Staatsbibl. Can. 38, fol. 2–54 |
Durham, Univ. Libr. Cosin V III.3, fol. 78ra–93vb (contains an abbreviated version of the Summa that ends at C. 8 q.1 c.15) |
London, BL Royal 10 A III |
London, BL Add. 24659, fol. 3–26v, 28–41 (omits C.15 q.7 – C.24) |
London, Lambeth Palace Libr. 411 |
Paris, BN lat. 3934 A, fol. 56–101v (ends at De cons. D.4 c.86) |
Roma, Bibl. Casanatense 1105, fol. 199–222v (ends at C.10 pr.) |
Rouen, BM 710, fol. 64–117v |
Wien, ÖNB 2121, fol. 84r (prologue in form of a marginal gloss) |
Text(s) – Modern Editions |
No. 1 |
Glosses on the Decretum. |
Modern Editions |
Many glosses have been edited and discussed by J. Juncker in ZRG Kan. Abt., 15 (1926) 326–500. (For a list of manuscripts, see also S. Kuttner, Repertorium 12; idem, ‘Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus’ (1943) 281 n.12.) |
No. 2 |
Summa decretorum. |
Modern Editions |
Prologue is printed by J. von Schulte in SB Wien, 63 (1869) 319–20. (See also S. Kuttner, Repertorium 12; idem, ‘Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus’ Traditio 1 (1943) 281 n.12.) |
Various passages from his commentary were published by J. Juncker in ZRG Kan. Abt., 15 (1926) 326–500. |
Summa in Decretum Simonis Bisinianensis, ed. P. Aimone-Braida (MIC A:8; Città del Vaticano 2014). |
Literature |
A. Duggan, ‘‘New’ and ‘Old’ Law in the Twelfth Century: A Contribution to the Current Debate’, BMCL, 36 (2019) 303–307. |
O. Condorelli, ‘A proposito della Summa in Decretum di Simone da Bisignano edita da Pier V. Aimone Braida ’, BMCL, 32 (2015) 37–55. |
R. Weigand, ‘The Development of the Glossa ordinaria to Gratian’s Decretum’, in The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140–1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, W. Hartmann and K. Pennington, ed. (History of Medieval Canon Law 6; Washington DC 2008) 64, 75, 97. |
K. Pennington, ‘The Decretists: The Italian School’, in The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140–1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, W. Hartmann and K. Pennington, ed. (History of Medieval Canon Law 6; Washington DC 2008) 139–40. |
C. Rider, Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages (Oxford 2006) 61–62. |
J. Viejo-Ximénez, ‘Simón de Bisignano’, in Juristas universales (2004) 1.346–8. |
T. Lenherr, Die Exkommunikations– und Depositionsgewalt der Häretiker bei Gratian und den Dekretisten bis zur Glossa ordinaria des Johannes Teutonicus (Münchener Theologische Studien 3, Kan. Abt. 42; München 1987) 215. |
H. Müller, Der Anteil der Laien an der Bischofswahl: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kanonistik von Gratian bis Gregor IX. (Kanonistische Studien und Texte 29; Amsterdam 1977) 87–89. |
F. Liotta, La continenza dei chierici (Milano 1971) 99–105. |
R. Benson, The Bishop–Elect: A Study in Medieval Ecclesiastical Office (Princeton 1968) 97, 104–5, 159. |
R. Weigand, Die Naturrechtslehre der Legisten und Dekretisten von Irnerius bis Accursius und von Gratian bis Johannes Teutonicus (Münchener Theologische Studien 3, Kan. Abt. 26; 1967) 173–76 and passim. |
J. Weitzel, Begriff und Erscheinungsformen der Simonie bei Gratian und den Dekretisten (Münchener Theologische Studien 3, Kan. Abt. 25; München 1967) 118–23. |
R. Weigand, Die bedingte Eheschliessung im kanonischen Recht (Münchener Theologische Studien 3, Kan. Abt. 16; München 1963) 1.169–71. |
W. Holtzmann, ‘Zu den Dekretalen bei Simon von Bisignano’, Traditio, 18 (1962) 450–59. |
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) 55. |
S. Kuttner, ‘A Note on Manuscripts’, Traditio, 15 (1959) 498. |
P. Legendre, ‘Miscellanea Britannica’, Traditio, 15 (1959) 494. |
T. McLaughlin, ‘The extravagantes in the Summa of Simon de Bisignano’, (1958) 167–76. |
S. Kuttner, ‘An Interim Checklist of Manuscripts’, Traditio, 11 (1955) 441. |
S. Kuttner, ‘Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus’, Traditio, 1 (1943) 281. |
S. Kuttner, |
A. Lambert, ‘Bisignano, Simon de’, in DDC (1937) 2.9. |
J. Juncker, ‘Die Summa des Simon von Bisignano und seine Glossen’, ZRG Kan. Abt., 15 (1926) 326–50. |
J. von Schulte, |
J. von Schulte, ‘Geschichte der Literatur über das Dekret Gratians’, Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 63 (1869) 299–323. |