Bernardus Compostellanus Junior

Biography

• born in the spanish town Vergantinas (Gallicia), therefore also mentioned as Birgantius.
• had a benefice in Compostella, therefore called Compostellanus.
• Capellanus of the Pope.
• major contributions in Canon Law between 1245-1260

Activities as Canonist

• Post 1245: Margarita
• Casus decretalium
• Apparatus ad Constitutiones Innocentii IV.

Editions and Sources

• Bernardus Compostellanus: Bernardi Compostellani celeberrimi vtriusq[ue] ce[n]sure p[ro]fessoris ac famosissimi monarche Lectura aurea…, Rembolt, Parisius 1516.
• Further editions and manuscripts at Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists. 

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see: Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich von: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts. Von Papst Gregor IX. bis zum Concil von Trient, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1877, p.118-120.