BARTOLOMEUS BRIXIENSIS. [with] DALEN, Michael de.

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Excellent, crisp copies, rubricated and in contemporary boards still retaining the original wooden pegs, of the first editions of two important legal commentaries on the Decretals . These were collections of papal decrees, issued regularly throughout the middle ages for the use of jurists, which regulated the functions, structure, personnel and law of the Catholic Church. They offer priceless insight into the everyday legal and theological questions of the age. A precious reference work, this copy was bequeathed by Jacobus Wilhelmus to the library of Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, c.1500, where it was probably chained. Bartolomeo da Brescia (d.1258) studied canon law at Bologna and was the author of numerous legal works. Written when Bartolomeo was still a student, Casus decretorum - a revised and enlarged version of Benincasa da Arezzo s (d.1206) Casus decretum - is a commentary on the Decretum , a legal textbook by the C12 jurist Gratian and one of the 6 works that formed the Corpus Juris Canonici. Later Bartolomeo wrote the standard Glossa used for centuries, based on the work of Johannes Teutonicus. Casus reprises Gratian s subdivisions into distinctio, causa and questio, and deals with a great variety of cases spanning the office of bishops, monks and priests, synods, the resignation of a pope, and various regulations pertaining to clerics concerning questions as wide-ranging as property ownership, inheritance and fornication. Little is known of the canonist Michael de Dalen, autho

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