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Report No. r475 |
Petrus de Braco |
fl. mid. 14th c. |
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| Alternative Names |
Pedro de Braco; Pierre de Braco |
Biography/Description |
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Born in Piacenza, Petrus worked for most of his adult life in the service of Etienne Aubert, professor of law at Toulouse, and a judge in the court of the senschal. He was an auditor sacri palatii. Petrus died just before his master was elected Pope Innocent VI (1352). |
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Entry by: KP rev BP 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Repertorium iuris canonici. |
| No. 2 | Compendium iuris canonici. |
| No. 3 | Opusculum compendiosum. A collection of 20 contrarietates between the Glossa ordinaria on the Decretum and Liber extra. |
| No. 4 | Limitationes Innocentii. This work was an attempt to bring Innocent IV’s Commentaria up to date with material from the Liber Sextus and the Clementines. |
| No. 5 | Repudium ambitionis. A verse satire on the papal court. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
| No. 1 |
Repertorium iuris canonici. |
| Manuscript | Angers, BM 322 |
Paris, BN lat. 4139 |
| No. 2 |
Compendium iuris canonici. |
| Manuscript | Tours, BM 561 |
Literature |
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A. Bernal Palacios, ‘Las Limitationes Innocentii atribuidas a Pedro de Braco’, Escritos del Vedat, 21 (1991) 155–176. |
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N. Zacour, ‘Petrus de Braco and his Repudium ambitionis’, Mediaeval Studies, 41 (1971) 1–29. |
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R. Chabanne, ‘Pierre de Braco’, in DDC (1957) 6.1473. |
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J. von Schulte, |
