Bartholomew of Brescia (Brixiensis)

Biography 

• Studied Roman and Ecclesiastical Law in Bologna. 
• Death: believed that he was murdered by Ezzelino (leader of the Ghibellines) when capturing Brescia in 1258.

Activities as Canonists

• Revision of Canonical works 
• Brocarda or Canonical Rule working over of Damasus
• Casus Decretorum as revision of Benencasa 
• Historiae super libro Decretorum: reproduction of the work of an unknown author.
• Casus and Historiae were incorporated in Gratian’s Paris Edition of the Decretum
• Revision of the Ordo Judiciarius of Tancred
• Glossa Ordinara as revision of the Glossa or Apparatus of John Teutonicus.
• Independent work: Quaestiones dominicales et veneriales

Editions and Sources

• Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: Decretum, with the Glossa Ordinaria of John Teutonicus in the adaption of Bartholomaeus Brixiensis, Matthias Huß, Lyon 1497 .
• Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: Casus Decretorum, Kesler Nikolaus, Basel 1489.
• Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: Quaestiones dominicales et veneriales.
• Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: Historiae super libro Decretorum, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. Lat.622.
• Bartholomaeus Brixiensis: Brocarda.
• Works and Editions in: Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich von: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts. Von Papst Gregor IX. bis zum Concil von Trient, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1877, pp.83-88. 
• WEBER, Nicholas Aloysius: Bartholomew of Brescia, in: HABERMAN, Charles (ed.): The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol.2, The Encyclopedia Press, Robert Appleton Co., New York 1907, online.
• WEIGAND, Rudolf: Bratholomäus v. Brescia, in: Kaspar, Walter (ed.): Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, Vol.2, Barclay-Damodos, Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, p.39.