BERNARDO da PARMA. - Also called da Botone, decretalist, born at Parma at the beginning of the 13th century, died at Bologna in May 1263. Canon of the cathedral of Bologna.
He is the author of a vast Apparatus on the Decretals of Gregory IX, in which he made particular use of the writings of Vincenzo Ispano and Goffredo da Trani. This apparatus, which came to be accepted as the ordinary gloss, is found in manuscripts and printed editions supplemented with additions ultimately drawn from the Novella di Giovanni Andrea, and is rich in doctrinal references to canonists preceding and contemporary with B., as well as in citations of civil-law texts and theories.
He also composed the Casus longi on the same Decretals, and this work appears repeatedly printed toward the end of the 15th century.