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Bertram of Metz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Stephan Kuttner
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In 1875, Gustav Haenel described a number of twelfth-century commentaries and glosses on the title De regulis iuris of the Digest, some of them being an-notations of Bulgarus’ celebrated apparatus and others, independent writings. Among the latter, a lemmatic commentary contained in a MS then owned by himself — now Leipzig, Univ. MS Haen. 12, fol. 25ff. — is of especial interest: as Haenel showed, the commentator may have had some ecclesiastical background and evidently was connected with Cologne or Mainz. It therefore comes as a pleasant confirmation of Haenel's cautious deductions that the author can be identified as Master Bertram, Bishop of Metz (sed. 1180–1212), and a member of the circle of Gerard Pucelle, the English master whose importance for the short-lived school of Cologne has been recently discussed.

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Institute of Research and Study In Medieval Canon Law: Bulletin for 1957
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Traditio , Volume 13 , 1957 , pp. 501 - 505
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7 This supersedes the attribution to the circle of Johannes Faventinus in Repert. loc. cit. (based on Schulte). The statement made above rests on a comparison of passages copied during a visit to Klosterneuburg in 1937; the evidence will be set forth in detail on another occasion. Google Scholar

8 These relations could be shown only in a full printing of the text, with appropriate annotations from the works cited above, which is beyond the pupose of the present paper. Google Scholar

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