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Report No. r474 |
Petrus Boherius |
c.1310–1387/88 |
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| Alternative Names |
Petrus Boerius; Pierre Bohier; Pietro Bohier; Petrus Bohier |
Biography/Description |
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Born c. 1310–15 near Carcassonne (Southern France), Petrus soon joined the Benedictines and studied canon law under Johannes Johannis, abbot of Joncels. In 1350, he was elected abbot of St. Chinian, near Béziers. He stayed there until 1364, playing a leading role in the provincial chapters of his order. Probably an outcome of these administrative activities, Petrus wrote legal commentaries on several papal bulls affecting the Benedictines and, above all, his first commentary on the Rule of Benedict (1361). In 1364, Pope Urban V appointed him to the bishopric of Orvieto and simultaneously made him his vicar in Rome. In 1369, he also received the see of Vaison, but remained involved in papal affairs at Orvieto. Resuming his literary activities, Petrus wrote a Tabula on Gratian’s Decretum (c. 1367–71) and presented a revised version of his comment on the Benedictine Rule to the monks of Subiaco (c.1373–77). At the outbreak of the schism, Petrus first sided with the French cardinals, which led to the loss of his Italian diocese (1378/79) and the return to his native France. There he became the chaplain of King Charles VI who assigned to him the task of writing a history of the popes. He completed it in 1380, in the form of a gloss on the Liber pontificalis. While working on this work, Petrus came to realize that Urban VI had a better claim to the papacy than his Avignonese opponent. Consequently, he returned to Italy in 1386, to submit to him. Petrus died in winter, 1387–88. |
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Entry by: KP rev BP 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Commentary on Summi magistri, 1336. |
| No. 2 | Commentaries on Dudum pro bono, Pastor bonus, and Cum pro reformatione. 1340, 1335, and 1228 respectively. |
| No. 3 | Commentarium in Regulam S. Benedicti. |
| No. 4 | Gloss on Speculum monachorum by Bernardus Casinensis. |
| No. 5 | Tabula Decreti, c. 1367–71. |
| No. 6 | De canonica portione. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
| No. 2 |
Commentaries on Dudum pro bono, Pastor bonus, and Cum pro reformatione. |
| Manuscript | Melk, Stiftsbibl. 149 |
Modena, Bibl. Estense C.V.1, fol. 1–55 |
| No. 3 |
Commentarium in Regulam S. Benedicti. |
| Manuscript | First recension |
Erlangen, Universitätsbibl. 155 (Contains an extended comment on Regula 38, s.v. ‘alicuius signi’ by Bohier himself.) |
Douai, BM 379 (Contains an extended comment on Regula 38, s.v. ‘alicuius signi’ by Bohier himself.) |
Second recension |
Subiaco, Bibl. S. Scolastica LIX.61 (Autograph and basis for the edition of L. Allodi.) |
| No. 4 |
Gloss on Speculum monachorum by Bernardus Casinensis. |
| Manuscript | Melk, Stiftsbibl. 149 |
Modena, Bibl. Estense A.V.7, fol. 101–41 |
Wien, ÖNB 5135 |
| No. 5 |
Tabula Decreti, c. 1367–71. |
| Manuscript | Praha, Univ. Knihovna 1138, fol. 209–228v |
| No. 6 |
De canonica portione. |
| Manuscript | Praha, Univ. Knihovna 878, fol. 140v–145v |
Text(s) – Early Printed Editions |
| No. 1 |
Commentary on Summi magistri, 1336. |
| Early Printed Editions |
Benedictina. Paris, 1519. |
Text(s) – Modern Editions |
| No. 3 |
Commentarium in Regulam S. Benedicti. |
| Modern Editions |
Petri Boherii in regulam S. Benedicti commentarium nunc primum editum, ed. L. Allodi (Subiaco 1908) (on the basis of the autograph, MS Subiaco, S. Scolastica LIX.61). |
Literature |
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E. Petrucci, ‘L’ecclesiologia alternativa alla vigilia e all’inizio del Grande scisma: S. Caterina da Siena e Pietro Bohier, vescovo di Orvieto’, Atti del simposio internazionale Cateriniano-Bernardiniano, Siena, 17-20 aprile 1980, D. Maffei and P. Nardi, ed. (Siena 1982) 181–253. |
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O. Přerovsky, Liber pontificalis nella recensione di Pietro Guglielmo OSB e del card. Pandolfo, glossato da Pietro Bohier OSB, vescovo di OrvietoSG, 21–23 (Rome 1978) 21.133–371; 23. |
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F. Petrucci, ‘Bohier, Pietro (Petrus Boherius, Boherii, Boerii’, in DBI (1969) 11.193–203 (online). |
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