Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus

Biography

 

• came from Spain.
• taught in Bologna.

 

Activities as Canonist

 

• wrote the Complitatio Romana.
• wrote a Summa de electione (maybe confused with the one of Bernard of Pavia).

Editions and Sources

• Compilatio Romana see: SINGER, Heinrich (ed.): Die Dekretalensammlung des Bernardus Compostellanus antiquus, Alfred Hölder, Wien 1914.

 

 

Introductory Secondary Literature

• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts. Von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, Vol. 1, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1875, pp. 190.