Prosdocimus de Comitibus

(Prosdocimo Conti)

Biography

• came from Padua.
• 1398: Member of the Collegium judicum.
• 1403: Professor of Canon Law.
• taught in Siena, then Padua.
• 1412: Bishop Petrus Marcellus installed him as Chancellor.
• 1429: Moved to Florence.
• Died 1438.

Activities as Canonist

• Lectura in Librum II. Decretalium
• De arbore consanguinitatum
• De differentiis legum et canonum
• Consilia

Editions and Sources

• see Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.



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, pp.298-299.