BERNARD OF COMPOSTELLA, THE YOUNGER

Bishop, canonist; d. Rome, 1267. He was dean of Lisbon in 1252. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from Bernard of Compostella "the Elder" (early 13th century), with whom, as Joannes Andreae testifies, he was being confused as early as the first part of the 14th century.

In a very busy lifetime he found time for only three works: (1) a Margarita or analytical table to Innocent IV's Apparatus in quinque libros decretalium, (2) a commentary on Innocent's own decretals—both of these were minor works written about 1250—and (3) a Lectura or commentary on the decretals of Gregory IX (which was begun about 1260 and had reached only as far as bk. 1, tit. 6 by 1267). For all its lack of originality, the fragmentary Lectura is of value, chiefly because it is the product of a writer who not only endorsed but also was perfectly familiar in practice with Innocent IV's ideas on centralization. Thus, drawing at one point on his own experience as an auditor, Bernard adds Notabilia to Corpus iuris Canonici X 1.3.30 (De rescriptis ), which provide a fascinating glimpse of the century-old system of provisions at the very moment when the canonist-pope was giving it a juridical framework that would endure for centuries.

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[l. e. boyle]