Quaestiones Londinenses

Concept and History of Quaestiones Londinenses

include 58 canonistic quaestiones of English origin, composed ca. 1196-98. The collection represents one of the most important sources for the teaching activities of several English masters (such as Simon of Southwell, Simon of Derby, John of Kent, John of Tynemouth), whose names occur in the discussions and solutions of many of the quaestiones. A reportatio of disputations held by another English canonist, Nicholas (de Aquila) seems to form the core of the material.

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Literature

J. A. Brundage, ‘A twelfth-century Oxford disputation concerning the privileges of the knights Hospitallers’, Mediaeval Studies 24 (1962) 153-60; idem, ‘The crusade of Richard I: Two canonical quaestiones’, Speculum 38 (1963) 443-52; idem, ‘The treatment of marriage in the Quaestiones Londinenses’, Manuscripta 19 (1975) 86-97; S. Kuttner, Repertorium 251-52; idem and E. Rathbone, ‘Anglo-Norman canonists of the twelfth century’, Traditio 7 (1949/51) 319-21 and passim; idem, ‘Retractationes VIII’, Gratian and the Schools (London 1983) 33, 36.

Manuscripts

London, Brit. Libr. Royal 9 E. VII, fol. 191ra-98vb.

Edition

J. A. Brundage has printed q. 1 in Mediaeval Studies 24 (1962) 158-60; q. 38-39 in Speculum 38 (1963) 448-52; he further discussed q. 12, 19,31, and 37 inManuscripta 19 (1975).