Jacobus Monachus

Biography

• came from Casaglia (Bologna)
• taught Canon Law in Bologna before 1285.
• Monk at St. Proculus in Bologna.

Activities as Canonist

• 1261: De Summa Trinitate et fide catholica (Commentary to the Decretals of Urban IV.)
• Breviary to the Decretum
• Quaestiones (mentioned by Johannes Andreae)

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.171.