Manuscripta juridica

[Principal Investigator: G. R. Dolezalek]







Lectura feudorum

Incipit:

  • Iura civilia, quibus utimur in [and then:] docendo
  • Primus titulus enumerat [and then:] personas qui feudum dare possunt modo
  • Librum tertium de feudis [and then:] contra fidem vulgarium exemplarium ob maiorem facilitatem et doctrinam

Explicit:

  • hic\ i.\ cap.\ et\ Similiter,\ §\

Lectura feudorum .

Written by the same Scottish hand which wrote the last part of Craig's 'Jus feudale'. In the last part, while commenting on the Constitutiones Friderici I (fol. 283v), the author quotes three times the chronicle of the Abbot of Ursberg in Germany (fol. 285r-v, 288v) and mentions words in German language. It is furthermore remarkable that he quotes the Promptuarium legum by Harmenopoulos and the Sententiae Pauli (fol. 285v), and that he mentions details of Emperor Frederic Barbarossa's legislation at Roncaglia and the Peace Treaty of Constance 1183.

Details: on fol. 284v, Frederic Barbarossa's lex 'Regalia' is put in context with Roman legal provisions. Fol. 285v: '... quorum fecit constitutiones pro pace Italiae, unam Roncaliae, alteram Constantiae ... Extat constitutio Roncaliae facta libro 2 Feudorum cap. 53 ... Ultimus articulus est de sacramentis puberum sponte factis ...'. Fol. 286r, summary of contents of the Peace Treaty of Constance, 1183. Fol. 286v: 'Denique Fredericus duas constitutiones de iure prothimiseos tulit ...'.

The above mentioned quotations show a familiarity with German legal history which is not known to have existed in Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton. I have therefore argued that the present commentary has not originated from his pen: see Dolezalek, 'Der Friede von Konstanz 1183 in der Literatur des 'Jus Communerquote', p. 277-307, at footnotes 67-69, in: Diego Quaglioni, Gerhard Dilcher (eds), {i}Gli inizi del diritto pubblico, 2. Da Federico I a Federico II{/i}. Bologna: il Mulino, and Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008 (Annali dell' Istituto storico ital-germanico in Trento. Contributi, vol. 21)

No. of pages: Fol. 261r-291r

Rubric: Tractatus in Libros Feudorum

Incipit:

  • (Praefatio:) Iura civilia, quibus utimur in docendo (secundum Justiniani praeceptum), in consulendo, respondendo et iudicando, Institutionibus, Digestis, Codice et Novellis continentur. Cetera illius non sunt - inter quos Libri Feudorum
  • (Text, liber primus, titulus i., de iis qui feudum dare possunt:) Primus titulus enumerat personas qui feudum dare possunt modo ... requirendi et retinendi illius. Ac de tempore dant tam ecclesiastici quam seculares feudum
  • (Liber tertius, fol. 282v:) Librum tertium de feudis contra fidem vulgarium exemplarium ob maiorem facilitatem et doctrinam

Explicit:

  • dicendum foret dicto § Similiter, et cap. i. hic

Colophon: Et hic est finis tam capitum horum extraordinariorum quam Librorum de Feudis. Deo laus, honor et gloria