Nicolaus de Tudeschis (Abbas Siculus, Panormitanus)

Biography

• also called Abbas modernus, Abbas Siculus; by his diocese Parnomitanus.
• entered the Benedictines.
• Studied under Zabarella in Padua who made him doctor.
• 1421: started teaching in Siena, Parma and Bologna.
• 1425: Martin V. gave him the Abbey of S. Maria de Maniaco (Diocese: Messina).
• Referendarius and auditor generalis in the Camera apostolica, royal advisor and commissioner.
• 1427: Archbishop of Palermo.
• Legate at the Council of Basel.
• Cardinalate under Felix V. (Amadeus of Savoy).
• 1453: Death (according to Oldoinus in July 1445)

Activities as Canonist

• Lectura in Decretales
• Lectura in Sextum
• Lectura in Clementina
• Consilia, Quaestiones
• Repetitione
• Disputationes, disceptationes et allegationes
• Flores utriusque iuris
• De concilio Basileensi

Editions and Sources

• Nicolai de Tudeschis ... commentariorum secunda in primum decretalium…, Lugduni 1546.
• Summa super titulus Decretalium: [1-3]/[3]: Repetitiones super cap. Ecclesiae S. Mariae et cap. Si quis contra clericum, Venice 1491.
• Repertorium super Lectu[ris] Panormitani: Index: aut si mavis Repertorium admodum solennis super Commentariis excelentissimi decretorum doctoris Nicolai de Tudeschis: Siculi: ... per totum opus Commentariorum: seu Lecturarum:..., Giuncta 1527.
• ... Pars Commentariorum: seu lecturae domini Nicolai de Tudeschis: Siculi: Abbatis Monacensis: Archiep[iscop]i Panormitani: sanct[a]eq[ue] Roman[a]e ecclesi[a]e Cardinalis: in ... Decretaliu[m] libru[m] / 1,1: Prima Panormi[tani] in primu[m] Decre[talium], Giuncta 1527.
• ... Pars Commentariorum: seu lecturae domini Nicolai de Tudeschis: Siculi: Abbatis Monacensis: Archiep[iscop]i Panormitani: sanct[a]eq[ue] Roman[a]e ecclesi[a]e Cardinalis: in ... Decretaliu[m] libru[m] / 1,2: Secu[n]da Panormi[tani] in Primu[m] Decre[talium], Giuncta 1527.
• ... Pars Commentariorum: seu lecturae domini Nicolai de Tudeschis: Siculi: Abbatis Monacensis: Archiep[iscop]i Panormitani: sanct[a]eq[ue] Roman[a]e ecclesi[a]e Cardinalis: in ... Decretaliu[m] libru[m] / 3,2: Panor[mitanus] in Tertium Decretalium, Giuncta 1527.
• Practica aurea ... de modo procedendi in iudiciis, Rome 1544.
• Nobilissimus ac prestantissimus tractatus d[omi]ni Nicolai de tudisco abbatis panor. super consilio Basiliens[i] editus: et de eius potestate ac pape in quo amplissime consiliorum materia pertractatur: qui nunc in lucem prodijt, Lugduni 1506.
• Consilia et Quaestiones, Augusta Taurihorum 1577.
• Repertorium in loculentissimas praelectiones, quas idem in quinque Decretalium libros ... concinnavit ..., Maiorinus, Venetiis 1569.
• Panormitani Iudiciarii ordinis processus, Birckmann, Coloniae 1555.
• See further in Digitale Sammlungen.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
• see Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters.
• 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, pp.312-313.