Paulus de Cospis

(de Liazariis, Eleazari)



Biography

• born in Bologna.
• Doctor juris civilis
• 1319: Collegium judicium
• 1321: Taught in Bologna (pupil of Johannes Andreae).
• was married three times and had three children.
• 1325: Taught in Perugia
• 1338: Envoy of Benedict XII. to Avignon and Milan.
• Death: 8^th February 1356.

Activities as Canonist

• Repetitiones super aliquot capita decretalium.
• Quaestiones
• Epitome Clementinarum
• Lectura super Clementinis
• Divisio decreti
• De electione
• De causa possessionis et proprietatis
• Consilia

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see: Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• 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, p.246