Decretales Gregorii IX (Also Liber Extra)

Concept and History of Decretales Gregorii IX (Also Liber Extra)

a compilation of the Decretals from the Compilationes antique edited and reorganized by Raymundus de Peñafort at the command of Pope Gregory IX. According to the promulgation bull of 1234, ‘Rex pacificus’, Raymundus eliminated all that was contradictory or repetitious. Pope Gregory also contributed decretals, some of them not written on specific cases but stating more abstract points of law. Although the Pope declared that decretals which had been omitted were no longer to be cited, some canonists did so because they valued the ‘ratio’ which a particular decretal contained. Although ‘Rex pacificus’ marked an important step on the road to a positive theory of law, nevertheless the older paradigm of law as a sort of written reason was by no means overthrown.

The organization of the Decretales followed the pattern established in the Compilationes antique. There were five books whose contents were suggested by the mnemonic, ‘iudex, iudicium, clerum, connubia, crimen’. Each book is divided into titles such as ‘de consuetudine’, ‘de prebendis’ and ‘de uerborum significatione’ which contained a series of decretal letters arranged generally in chronological order.

Major commentaries on the Decretales Gregorii IX were written by the following canonists in the thirteenth century: Aegidius de Fuscarariis, Balduinus Brandenburgensis, Bernardus de Montemirato Bernardus Parmensis (this was the Glossa Ordinaria), Boatinus of Mantua, Bonaguida Aretinus, Egidius de Fuscarariis, Franciscus de Albano, Goffredus de Trano (Tranensis), Guillelmus Naso, Henry of Merseyburg, Henry of Susa, Innocent IV, Pope, Johannes (Guidonis) de Ancona, Johannes Hispanus de Compostela, Johannes de Phintona, Petrus Sampson and Vincentius Hispanus. Later commentaries were written by Alexander de Nevo, Alexander Tartagnus, Andreas Barbatius, Angelo da Castro, Antonius de Butrio, Antonius de Rosellis, Arnold Westphal, Augustin Bero, Baldus de Ubaldis, Benedictus Capra, Cosma Contarini, Dominicus de Sancto Geminiano, Egidius de Bellamera, Felinus Sandeus, Franciscus de Accoltis, Franciscus Zabarella, Giacomo Zocchi, Giovanni Giacomo Can, Henricus Bohic, Henricus minor, Jacobus Cionis Illerdensis, Johannes Andreae, Johannes Franciscus Poggius, Johannes de Lignano, Marianus Socinus, Martinus Martini, Nicolaus de Tudeschis, Paulus de Aretio, Petrus de Ancharano, Petrus Joannis, Philipus Decius, Prosdocimo Conti and Stefano Buonaccorsi.

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Literature

S. Horwitz, ‘Magistri and magisterium: Saint Raymond of Peñafort and the Gregoriana’, Escritos del vedat 7 (1977) 209-38; idem, ‘Reshaping a decretal chapter: Tua nobis and the canonists’, Law, church, and society: Essays in honor of Stephan Kuttner, ed. K. Pennington and R. Somerville (Philadelphia 1977) 207-21. S. Kuttner, ‘Raymond of Penyafort as editor: The “decretales” and “constitutiones” of Gregory IX’, BMCL 12 (1982) 65-80. Schulte, QL II 3-25, Martin Bertram, ‘Die Dekretalen Gregors IX. (1234): Kompilation oder Kodifikation?’ Magister Raimundus: Atti del Convegno per il IV centenario della Canonizzazione di San Raimondo de Penyafort (1601-2001), ed. C. Longo OP (Rom: Istituto Storico Domenicano, 2002) 61-86.

Manuscripts

Taken from lists compiled by Martin Bertram (https://www.dhi-roma.it/bertram_extrahss.html?&L=0): FRANCE: Paris, Bibl. Mazarine 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, Paris. Bibl. Ste. Geneviève 331, 1653, 2960, Paris, BNF lat. 3936, 3937, ‘ 3938 ‘ 3939 ‘ 3940, 3941, 3942, 3943, 3944, 3945, 3946, 3947, 3948, 3949, 3450, 3950A, 3951, 3952, 3954, 3955, 3956, 3957, 3958, 3959, 3960, 3960A, 4294, 4295, 4295A, 4379, 8923, 8924, 9633, 11715, 11716, 11717, 13664, 14322, 14323, 14324, 15401, 15402, 15403, 15404, 15405, 15406, 15407, 15408, 15998, 15999, 16541, 16542 Alençon, Municipale 23 (CGD 2, S. 499) Amiens, Municipale 357, 358, 359 Angers, Municipale 374 (361), 376 (363), 377 (364), 378 (365), 379 (366), Arras, Municipale 11 (6), 287 (939), 289 (954), 568 (455), 581 (476), 593 (499), 793 (443), 802 (9), 811 (451), 816 (485), Autun, Municipale S 102 (formerly Séminaire 82), S 116 (formerly Séminaire 97), Avranches, Municipale 150, 151, 152, 155, 156, Besançon, Municipale 380, Bourges, Municipale 183, 185, 186, 189, Cambrai, Muncicipale 288+289, 511, 619, 647, Chalons-sur-Marne, Municipale 63, Chantilly, Musée Condé 216 Carpentras, Municipale 172, Chartres, Municipale 146 (202), 149 (207), 280 (334), Douai, Municipale 599, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 606, 607, Grenoble, Municipale 477 (früher 72/505), Laon, Municipale 156, 357, 359, 364, 365, 366, 381, Lille, Municipale 145, Lyon, Municipale 337 (270), Metz, Municipale 56, 105, Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine (H) 9, Municipale 31, Poitiers, Municipale 122, 130, Privas, Archive dépt. de l’Ardèche Ms. 2, Reims, Municipale 693, 694, 695, 696, 697, 698, 699, Rouen, Municipale 711 (E.3), 712 (E.26), 713 (E.87), 714 (E.45), 715 (E.58), 716 (E.69), 717 (E.70), 718 (E.86), 719 (E.91), 720 (E.18), 721 (E.14), 723 (E.42), 724 (E.51), 725 (E.94), Saint-Claude, Municipale 7, Saint-Mihiel, Municipale 8, Saint-Omer, Municipale 434, 435, 436, 455, 459, 480, 488, 575, Tours, Municipale 568 (571), Troyes, Municipale 193, 247, 858, 1244, 1413, 1508, 1783, 1902, Vendôme, Municipale 80, 81.

Edition

E. Friedberg, ed. Corpus iuris canonici, vol. II. (Leipzig 1879 [repr. ed. Graz 1959] 1-928.AUTHOR: compiled and edited by Ramundus de Peñafort