Type: Person

Name: Bartholomaeus Brixiensis

Dates: 1234 ca. — 1258 ca.

Gender: male

Variant names: Bartholomew of Brescia; Bartolomeo da Brescia

Biographical details: A student of Tancred and the civilian Hugolinus and later professor of canon law at Bologna. He devoted most of his time to re-editing the canonistic works of his older colleagues which had been rendered obsolete by the appearance of the Decretales Gregorii IX in 1234. Besides revising Brocarda, the Historiae of Damasus, the ordo iudiciarius of Tancred, and the Casus of Benencasa Senensis, he also updated Johannes Teutonicus’ Gloss to the Decretum (after 1234), adding his own comments. This text became the Glossa Ordinaria. Bartholomeus’ Quaestiones have likewise been shown to be updates of an older collection.

References: CERL cnp01107042; ISNI 0000000456058340

Editor: CM

Start of time period: 13th century AD, 2nd quarter

End of time period: 13th century AD, 3rd quarter

Period: late medieval

Characterisation: no characterisation/lay

Profession: jurist; university lecturer

Place: Bologna

Country: Italy