The following table lists all of the authors named in the first four tomes of TUI 1584. It will be expanded as the lists of of authors and titles grows. The names are asigned a unique number that will eventually proceed alphabetically according to the lemma, but it does not now and should not be used until the list is complete.

TUI 1584 gives the authors’ names in Latin. Starting at some uncertain date around 1200 or a bit later, library catalogues tend to give them in the vernacular; modern biographical dictionaries do so too, particularly when they are national biographies. We rather suspect that some of our authors’ mothers would be quite surprised at the vernacular names that have been assigned to their sons, particularly when there is no contemporary evidence to support the assignment. The damage is, however, done. Normally, if one wants to find a TUI 1584 author in modern scholarship, one needs the vernacular name. With this in mind, we have listed our authors from 1200 on under their vernacular names, unless the author is normally listed under his Latin name. Similarly, library cataloguers tend to list our authors alphabetically under the second element of the name, imagining it to be a surname, even though it frequently is not. Since it takes some doing to get from the Latin name in TUI to the vernacular surname, we have given cross-references from all the Latin names in TUI 1584 to the name where the main entry is found. These cross-references begin with the author’s Christian name, e.g., Achilles Personalis Mirandulanus, not Personalis, Achilles, Mirandulus. In a few cases we have also given the inverted version of the name as well, e.g., Aegidius, Jacobus, where we are aware that library catalogues list him that way. Christian names of authors given in TUI 1584 are somewhat normalized; for example, all authors with the Christian name ‘John’ are listed under ‘Joannes’, ignoring the spelling variations that are found in TUI 1584.

Most library catalogues make an exception for authors who are known only by their Christian name and what is obviously a toponym. DGI and DBI follow this practice as well, and so have we. Hence, Antonius de Butrio will be found under Antonio da Budrio, and not Budrio, Antonio da.

There is considerable variation in library catalogues in the listing of surnames that have a prefix (de, le, von, etc.). Our listings invert these prefixes. Hence, Nicolaus de Lescut will be found under Escut, Nicolas de l’, not l’Escut (or Lescut), Nicolas de.

The dating of the authors is complicated. Ideally, each author should be accompanied by the place and date of his birth and the place and date of his death, e.g. b. Milano 1492, d. Pavia 1550. We do not have, and will probably never have, that information for all of them. Probably the most common uncertainty is the date of birth, e.g., b. Rosciate c. 1290, d. Bergamo 1360, where ‘c.’ before the date stands for circa. Similarly, when it precedes a date, ‘a.’ stands for ante and ‘p.’ for post. Where the place of birth or death is known, but the date is not, the position for the date is supplied by an ellipsis, e.g., b. Cingoli ... , fl. 1568 – d. 1596. Where the date of birth or death is known, but not the place, it is omitted as in the previous example. Where the date of birth is not known, the first year in which the author appears is preceded by ‘fl.’ for floruit, once more as in the previous example.

Two dates separated by a dash without anything more, e.g., 1313/14–1357, are taken, by and large, from library catalogues. They indicate birth and death dates without regard to whether the place of either is known. The back slash (/) indicates ‘or’.

Where precise dates are unknown, we have attempted to place our authors in a century, e.g. 16th c., where ‘c.’ here stands for ‘century’. Where some, but not much, precision is possible, ‘16/1 c.’ and ‘16/2 c.’, stand for the first and second halves of the century respectively, and ‘sec. 16 ineunte’ stands for ‘the beginning’ of the named century.

The search for the authors was not particularly systematic. I pursued them quite systematically in DGI, DBI, Lange and Lange/Kriechbaum (in the case of the latter two, only where the dates were early enough to make the pursuit worthwhile). As a general matter, if I found them there, I did pursue them any further. Failing these, I went to the CERL Thesaurus. The CERL Thesaurus is a work in progress. Since it is derived from library catalogues, it is no better than is the information in those catalogues, and some of it is quite obviously wrong. The entries, however, almost always provide useful clues. From the CERL Thesaurus, I pursued sources online until I reached an identification that I thought was reliable or, in a couple of cases, until I reached the point where it seemed clear that the author was obscure indeed.

The following abbreviations are used: DGI = Dizionario Biografico dei Giuristi Italiani (XII – XX Secolo), ed. Italo Birocchi, et al., 2 vols. (Bologna 2013); DBI = Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 79 vols. to date (1960- ) (we used the online edition and hence do not include the page numbers unless we found the reference elswhere); Jöcher = Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, 4 vols. (Leipzig, 1750–1751); Lange, Glossatoren = Hermann Lange, Römisches Recht im Mittelalter: 1 Die Glossatoren (München 1997); Lange/Kriechbaum, Kommentatoren = Hermann Lange, Maximiliane Kriechbaum, Römisches Recht im Mittelalter: 2 Die Kommentatoren (München 2007); Schulte = Johann Friedrich von Schulte, Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, 3 vols. (Stuttgart 1875–80); s.n. = sub nomine (used when the cited source does not list the author in the way that we have).

Errors, which certainly exist, are my responsibility; they can be called to our attention by sending us an email.

Charles Donahue, Jr.
July, 2014

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