SIMON OF BISIGNANO. - Jurist, a native of Bisignano (Cosenza), who lived in the 12th century.

He was a follower of Gratian; between 5 March 1177 and March 1179 he finished composing his Summa, which can be considered a gloss and a continuation of the Decretum Gratiani, inasmuch as it makes use of subsequent papal legislation. His entire work (Summa and Glossa) is unpublished and scattered among manuscripts in Bamberg, Augsburg, London, Paris, Rome, and Rouen; it is important for its independence of judgment, the rationality and systematic character of its criticism, and its influence on later summarists and glossators.

Bibliography4 works

BIBL.: J. F. Schulte, Gesch. der Quellen und Literat. des can. Rechts, I, Stuttgart 1875, pp. 140-42, 225; Hutter, II, col. 209; J. Junker, Die Summa des S. von B. und seine Glossen, in Zeitsch. der Savigny-Stift. für Rechtsbesch., Kan. Abt., 15 (1926), pp. 326-500; S. Kuttner, Kanonist. Schullehre von Gratian bis auf die Dekretaine Gregore IX., Città del Vaticano 1935, passim: id., Repertorium der Kanonistik (1040-1234), ivi 1937, passim: A. van Hove, Prolegomena, Malines-Roma 1945, pp. 428-35.

Augusto Moreschini

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Simon of Bisignano

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