BARTOLOMEO da BRESCIA (Bartholomaeus Brixiensis). - Decretalist, born in 1258. He studied Roman law at Bologna under the legist Ugolino dei Presbiteri and canon law under the decretalist Tancredi. For the most part, his production is not original, but consists of adaptation. His originality, however, would appear in the important collection of the Quaestiones dominicales et veneriales (1234), a scholastic work designated by the days devoted to the proposing and discussion of the Quaestio.
He is known above all for his reworking of the ordinary gloss on Graziano’s Decree, owing especially to Johannes Teutonicus. In referring, in this work of his (completed perhaps between 1240 and 1246, probably after 1245), to the earlier decretals, he did not make use of the Compilationes antiquae, but of Gregory IX’s Liber extra. To his commentary he added parallel passages, questions of his own, and made use of others’ writings. He also reworked the Casus decretorum, that is, the cases regulated in the legal texts of the Decree; moreover, he revised the collection of the Brocharda of Damaso, with considerable additions.
He is also the author of an Ordo indiciarius written about the year 1236, which is a mere adaptation of the collection of his master Tancredi.