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Report No. c030

Pontius de Ilerda

c.1175–post 1220

 

Alternative Names

Ponzio da Ylerda; Pontius Catellanus

 

Biography/Description

Jurist from Catalonia, from the city of Lérida, who studied in Bologna, probably under Johannes Bassianus. Took his oath to the city of Bologna as doctor legum in 1213. As was typical, the oath included swearing to teach only in Bologna, to support studies in Bologna, and to advise the city’s leaders. Nothing more is known of his life. His work, though not voluminous, was of high quality, although it was quickly overshadowed by the procedural work of Roffredus.

 

Entry by: AL viii.2016

 

Text(s)

 
No. 01

Summa arboris actionum, 1213–17. Dependent on the Arbor actionum of Johannes Bassianus.

 
No. 02

Quoniam nonnulli, post 1216. Small work taken up by Bagarottus in his Cavillationes.

 

Text(s) – Modern Editions

No. 01

Summa arboris actionum.

 
Modern Editions

La Summa arboris actionum di Ponzio da Ylerda, ed. G. Rossi (Milano 1951) 45–254.

 

Literature

A. Pérez Martín, ‘Poncio de Lérida’, in Juristas universales 1.400–1.

H. Lange, Glossatoren (1997) 303–305.

A. Errera, ‘Arbor actionum’: Genere letterario e forma di classificazione delle azioni nella dottrina dei glossatori (Archivio per la Storia del Diritto Medioevale e Moderno 1; Bologna 1995) 336–41.

P. Weimar, ‘Pontius de Ilerda’, in LMA (1994) 7.98.

L. Fowler-Magerl, Ordo iudiciorum vel ordo iudiciarius: Begriff und Literaturgattung (Ius commune: Sonderhefte 19; Frankfurt a.M. 1984) 180–82, 191–93, 225–27.

S. Kuttner, ‘Analecta iuridica vaticana (Vat. lat. 2343)’, in Collectanea vaticana in honorem Anselmi card. Albareda (Studi e Testi 219; Città del Vaticano 1962) 1.415–16, 421–22.

G. Rossi, ‘Un nuovo manoscritto (Par. Lat. 14622) contenente La Summa arboris actionum di Ponzio da Ylerda’, RSDI, 25 (1952) 205–213.

G. Rossi, La Summa arboris actionum di Ponzio da Ylerda (Milano 1951).

G. Rossi, ‘Per una edizione dell’Arbor actionum: Un prologus di Giovanni de Deo e un gruppo di glosse di incerto autore’, in Studi e memorie dell’Istituto per la Storia dell’Università di Bologna (Studi e memorie dell’Istituto per la Storia dell’Università di Bologna 18; 1950) 29–94.

F. von Savigny, Geschichte 5.156–57.