BERNARD of PARMA. — Also called Bernard of BOTONE, decretalist, born in Parma at the beginning of the 13th century, died in Bologna in May 1263. Canon of the cathedral of Bologna.
He is the author of a vast Apparatus to the Decretals of Gregory IX, in which he made special use of the writings of Vincent Hispanus and Geoffrey of Trani. This apparatus, which was received as the ordinary gloss, in the manuscript and in printed editions is found completed with additions drawn ultimately from the Novella of John Andrea, and is rich in doctrinal references to canonists preceding and contemporary with B., and in citations of civil law texts and theories.
He also composed the Casus longi on the same Decretals, and this work appears repeatedly in print toward the end of the 15th century.