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Stephanus Hugoneti and his ‘Apparatus' on the Clementines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Norman P. Zacour
Norman P. Zacour*
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Franklin and Marshall College
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The Rare Book Room of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries has recently acquired an early fourteenth-century manuscript (Lat. 95) of a hitherto unknown Apparatus on the Clementines. The author is Stephanus Hugoneti (from southern France, possibly Narbonne), whose work as a canonist has gone unknown, and whose ultimate though brief emergence from historical obscurity as bishop of Bologna has hardly been noticed.

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Institute of Research and Study in Medieval Canon Law Bulletin for 1961
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Traditio , Volume 17 , 1961 , pp. 527 - 530
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Copyright © Fordham University Press 

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