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Report No. a494 |
Sicardus Cremonensis |
c.1155–1215 |
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| Alternative Names |
Sicardus, Bishop of Cremona (LC); Sicard of Cremona; Sicard von Cremona; Sicardo di Cremona; Sicard de Cremone; Sighard von Cremona |
Biography/Description |
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Taught at Bologna and in France during the 1170s, before he received a prebend at Mainz in 1180. After moving to Rome (1183), he eventually abandoned teaching when he was elected bishop of Cremona in 1185. Sicardus is best known for his world-chronicle, but he also wrote mythological, liturgical, and canonistic treatises. To the latter category belongs his Summa on Gratian’s Decretum (c.1177–79). The work is significant in particular for his method, since it favors didactic and systematic elements at the expense of explanatory ones. As a result, Sicardus’ treatment often follows the format of quaestiones or distinctiones rather than that of a commentary in the proper sense. He always observes, however, the order of the Decretum. In c.1183, Sicardus added an epilogue to his work called Apologia. |
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Entry by: KP rev AL 2015 |
Text(s) |
| No. 1 | Summa decretorum, 1177–79. |
| No. 2 | Chronica. |
| No. 3 | Mitrale. |
Text(s) – Manuscripts |
| No. 1 |
Summa decretorum, 1177–79. |
| Manuscript | Amiens, BM 377, fol. 2–82v |
Arras, BM 618, fol. 1–66 |
Augsburg, Staats- u. Stadtbibl. I, fol. 73–137va |
Bamberg, Staatsbibl. Can. 38, fol. 56–116 |
Bamberg, Staatsbibl. Can. 39, fol. 1–12v |
Bamberg, Staatsbibl. Can. 39, fols. 145–56v (contains D.1–D.63, C.27–end) |
Bernkastel-Kues, Bibl. St. Nikolaus Hospitals 226, fol. 5–28v |
Bruxelles/Brussel, Bibl. Royale 1485–1501, fol. 193vb–218ra, 218vb–244va |
Córdoba, Bibl. Cap. 137 |
Darmstadt, Landesbibl. 318 |
Leipzig, Universitätsbibl. 1012, fol. 5 (prologue only, fragmentary) |
London, BL Add. 18367 |
Milano, Bibl. Ambrosiana M.64 sup., fol. a.i–a.lxxxiii |
München, BSB Clm 4555 |
München, BSB Clm 8013 |
München, BSB Clm 11312 |
Oxford, Corpus Christi Coll. 154, p.6–124, p.126–153, p.307–355 (D.1–101 on p. 307–355, C.1–6 on p.6–61, C.7–24 on p.62–124, and C.27–33 q.3 on p.126–153) |
Oxford, Univ. Coll. 117, fol. 129v–140rb (excerpts only) |
Paris, BN lat. 4288, fol. 1–75v |
Paris, BN lat. 4289 |
Paris, BN lat. 14996, fol. 1–146v |
Roma, Bibl. Casanatense 108, fol. 187–246 |
Roma, BN 1369, fol. 78ra–86vb, 88ra–117vb (contains D.1–D.63, D.48–C.30) |
Rouen, BM 710, fol. 1–63v |
Salamanca, Bibl. Univ. 2247 |
Trier, Stadtbibl. 922, fol. 1v–59 |
Città del Vaticano, BAV Pal. lat. 653, fol. 65v–112 |
Città del Vaticano, BAV Pal. lat. 362, fol. 164v–172 (De cons. Only) |
Wien, ÖNB 2166, fol. 1–72v |
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek C.80, fol. 1–54v |
Text(s) – Modern Editions |
| No. 1 |
Summa decretorum. |
| Modern Editions |
The Apologia is printed by J. von Schulte in SB Wien, 63 (1869) 340–41. |
| No. 2 |
Chronica. |
| Modern Editions |
Ed. O. Holder-Egger in MGH SS, 31 (1903) 78–103. |
| No. 3 |
Mitrale. |
| Modern Editions |
PL, 213.13–146. |
Literature |
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M. Eichbauer, ‘Legal Authorities and their Legislative Priorities: The Treatment of Leprosy in the Sources of Canon Law’, ZRG Kan. Abt., 106 (2020) 166. |
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K. Pennington, ‘The Decretists: The Italian School’, in The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140–1234: From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, W. Hartmann and K. Pennington, ed. (History of Medieval Canon Law 6; Washington DC 2008) 127, 140, 160, 166. |
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J. Viejo-Ximénez, ‘Sicardo de Cremona’, in Juristas universales (2004) 1.378–80. |
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T. Lenherr, Die Exkommunikations– und Depositionsgewalt der Häretiker bei Gratian und den Dekretisten bis zur Glossa ordinaria des Johannes Teutonicus (Münchener Theologische Studien 3, Kan. Abt. 42; München 1987) 216–18. |
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S. Kuttner, ‘Retractationes VIII’, in Gratian and the Schools of Law (London 1983) 30. |
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H. Müller, Der Anteil der Laien an der Bischofswahl: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kanonistik von Gratian bis Gregor IX. (Kanonistische Studien und Texte 29; Amsterdam 1977) 66–69. |
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F. Liotta, La continenza dei chierici (Milano 1971) 143–46. |
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J. Brundage, Medieval Canon Law and the Crusader (Madison WI 1969) 51–52. |
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R. Benson, The Bishop–Elect: A Study in Medieval Ecclesiastical Office (Princeton 1968) 101–3, 105, 160. |
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J. Brundage, ‘The Votive Obligations of Crusaders: The Development of a Canonistic Doctrine’, Traditio, 24 (1968) 84. Reprinted in: idem, The Crusades, Holy War and Canon Law (Collected Studies CS 338; Aldershot 1991) no. VI. |
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R. Weigand, Die Naturrechtslehre der Legisten und Dekretisten von Irnerius bis Accursius und von Gratian bis Johannes Teutonicus (Münchener Theologische Studien 3, Kan. Abt. 26; München 1967) 184–85 and passim. |
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J. Weitzel, Begriff und Erscheinungsformen der Simonie bei Gratian und den Dekretisten (Münchener Theologische Studien 3, Kan. Abt. 25; München 1967) 123–34. |
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R. Weigand, Die bedingte Eheschliessung im knaonischen Recht (Münchener Theologische Studien 3, Kan. Abt. 16; München 1963) 1.171–76. |
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C. Lefebvre, ‘Sicard de Cremone’, in DDC (1961) 7.1008–1011. |
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S. Kuttner, ‘Annual Report’, Traditio, 16 (1960) 533. |
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E. Brocchieri, Sicardo di Cremona e la sua opera letteraria (Roma 1958). |
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R. Motzenbäcker, Die Rechtsvermutung im kanonischen Recht (München 1958) 93 n.1. |
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N. Vilain, ‘Prescription et bonne foi du Décret de Gratien (1140) à Jean d’André († 1348)’, Traditio, 14 (1958) 147. |
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S. Kuttner, ‘Bertram of Metz’, Traditio, 13 (1957) 501–503. |
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S. Kuttner, ‘An Interim Checklist of Manuscripts’, Traditio, 12 (1956) 562. |
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S. Kuttner, ‘Réflexions sur les brocards des glossateurs’, in Melanges Josef de Ghellinck (Gembloux 1952) 2.767–92. |
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S. Kuttner, ‘Anglo-Norman Canonists of the Twelfth Century’, Traditio, 7 (1949/51) 301 n.34. |
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A. Lang, ‘Rhetorische Einflüsse bei den Glossatoren’, ZRG Kan. Abt., 29 (1940) 30–50. |
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S. Kuttner, |
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S. Kuttner, ‘Zur Biographie des Sicardus’, ZRG Kan. Abt., 25 (1936) 476–91. |
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J. von Schulte, ‘Zur Geschichte des Literatur über das Dekret Gratians’, Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 63 (1869) 340–41. |
