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Report No. r384 |
Johannes Alphonsus de Benavente |
d. c. 1478 |
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| Alternative Names |
Juan Alfonso de Benavente |
Biography/Description |
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Johannes was an important canonist of Salamanca who taught there for more than 60 years. He died c.1478. |
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Entry by: KP rev BP 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Ars studendi et docendi. |
| No. 2 | Compilatio de canonibus moralibus. |
| No. 3 | Repetitiones. |
| No. 3a | Repetitio de nullitatibus sententiarum. |
| No. 3b | Repetitio super cap. Sufficit. (De pen. D.1 c.61). |
| No. 3c | Repetitio de ieiunio. |
| No. 3d | Repetitio de elemosyna. |
| No. 3e | Repetitio de restitutione male ablatorum. Exists in two versions. |
| No. 3f | Repetitio in cap. Qui in vivorum. (X 3.8.1). |
| No. 3g | Repetitio de alienatione rerum ecclesiasticarum. |
| No. 3h | Repetitio de iure patronatus. Exists in two versions. |
| No. 3i | Repetitio de potestate et arbitrio confessoris. |
| No. 3k | Repetitio de advocatis. |
| No. 3l | Repetitio de feriis. |
| No. 3m | Repetitio de excommunicationibus et reincidentiis. |
| No. 3n | Repetitio de immunitate ecclesiastica. |
| No. 3o | Repetitio de baptismo. |
| No. 3p | Repetitio de materia iuramenti. |
| No. 3q | Repetitio de oratione. |
| No. 3r | Repetitio in bullam ‘Excellentissimum’. A bull of Eugene IV. |
| No. 4 | Revised Tratado of Juan de Calahorra. |
| No. 5 | Tractatus de poenitentiis. |
| No. 6 | Quaestiones. |
| No. 6a | De indulgentiis. |
| No. 6b | De sacrilegio. |
| No. 7 | XIV conclusiones contra clericos concubinarios. The relationship between this work and the Tractatus contra sacerdotes concubinarios of Martín de Galos (q.v.) needs further exploration. The latter work, misattributed to Alfonso de Madrigal appears in vol. 20 of the latter’s Opera omnia ed. Venice 1529, and vol.12 of ed. Cologne 1613 along with these conclusiones. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
| No. 1 |
Ars studendi et docendi. |
| Manuscript | Oviedo, Arch. Catedralico 14, fol. 139va–164ra |
Sevilla, Bibl. Cap. 5–5–23, fol. 180ra–91vb |
| No. 2 |
Compilatio de canonibus moralibus. |
| Manuscript | Oviedo, Arch. Catedralico 22, fol. 2r–43v |
Salamanca, Bibl. Univ. [No signature] |
| No. 3a |
Repetitio de nullitatibus sententiarum. |
| Manuscript | Madrid, BN 9117, fol. 1ra–19vb |
Segovia, Bibl. Cabildo 72.26 (55), fol. 132ra–143ra |
Segovia, Bibl. Cabildo 3.4.7.71.10, fol. 199ra–215va |
| No. 3m |
Repetitio de excommunicationibus et reincidentiis. |
| Manuscript | Madrid, BN 12915, fol. 235vb–237v, 247va–261vb |
| No. 3n |
Repetitio de immunitate ecclesiastica. |
| Manuscript | Madrid, BN 12915, fol. 262ra–285rb |
| No. 3p |
Repetitio de materia iuramenti. |
| Manuscript | Madrid, BN 12915, fol. 235ra, 238ra–247rb |
| No. 3r |
Repetitio in bullam ‘Excellentissimum’. |
| Manuscript | Córdoba, Bibl. Cap. Inc. 534 (Fragment) |
| No. 7 |
XIV conclusiones contra clericos concubinarios. |
| Manuscript | Córdoba, Bibl. Cap. 128, fol. 215ra |
Córdoba, Bibl. Cap. 191, fol. 11v |
Text(s) – Early Printed Editions |
| No. 5 |
Tractatus de poenitentiis. |
| Early Printed Editions |
Salamanca, 1502. |
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Salamanca, 1526. |
| No. 7 |
XIV conclusiones contra clericos concubinarios. |
| Early Printed Editions |
See the note to this text for references to appearances of this work in the Opera omnia of Alfonso de Madrigal. |
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Toulouse: Jean Parix, 1489 (GW 1260) (online). The edition seems ascribe both the XIV Conclusiones and the Tractatus de clericis concubinaris to Juan Afonso The incipit of the Tractatus is ‘Quoniam ubi maius periculum vertitur ibi cautius est agendum’. The online edition has handwritten foliation beginning at 110. |
Text(s) – Modern Editions |
| No. 1 |
Ars studendi et docendi. |
| Modern Editions |
Ed. B. Alonso Rodríguez in Bibliotheca Salmanticensis 2, Textus 1 (Salamanca 1972). |
| No. 4 |
Revised Tratado of Juan de Calahorra. |
| Modern Editions |
Ed. N. López Martínez in ‘El Tratado para sacerdotes de Juan de Calahorra’, Burgense, 12 (1971) 355–70. |
Literature |
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A. García y García, ‘Benavente, Juan Alfonso de’, in LMA (1980) 1.1855–56. |
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A. García y García, ‘La canonística ibérica medieval posterior al Decreto de Graciano’, Repertorio de historia de las ciencias eclesiasticas en España (Salamanca 1976) 5.372–74. |
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A. García y García, ‘La canonística española posclasica’, SG, 11 (1967) 277–51. |
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A. García y García, ‘Notas sobre la canonistica iberica de los siglos XIII–XV’, SG, 9 (1966) 158–59. |
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B. Alonso Rodríguez, Juan Alfonso de Benavente canonista salmantino del s. XV (Roma 1964). |
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A. García y García, ‘Los canonistas de la Universidad de Salamanca en el s.XIV–XV’, REDC, 17 (1962) 175–90. |
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A. García y García, ‘Un canonista olvidado: Juan Alfonso de Benavente’, REDC, 15 (1960) 655–69. |
