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Gerland of Besançon and the Manuscripts of his ‘Candela’ : A Bibliographical Note
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Two anonymous French canonists shortly before or around 1170, the author of the Parisian Summa Magister Gratianus in hoc opere and, in his footsteps, the author of the fragmentary Summa Antiquitate et tempore, cited a book they called ‘Candela Gerlandi’ (or ‘Gelandi’). Neither Schulte nor the writer of these pages, in his Repertorium (1937), was able to make much of the citation, save for connecting it with one ‘Jarlandus Chrysopolitanus’ whose name appears in some bibliographies of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, and with a few manuscript references. To the codex Victorinus (now Paris, B. N. lat. 14618), first mentioned in 1666 by Erich Mauritius, professor at the then recently opened University of Kiel, in his dissertation De libris iuris communis, Schulte added two more manuscripts of the Candela he had noted at random in the catalogues of Troyes and Montpellier.
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