Abbas Antiquus (Bernard de Montmirat)

Biography

• born 1225 in Montmirat near Nîmes.
• ca. 1259-66: Studied and taught Canon Law in Bologna.
• was taught by Peter de Sampsone.
• 1266: Abbot of Montmajour.
• 1286: Bishop of Tripoli in Syria (did not arrive there).
• Diplomatic Service for the Pope.
• 1295: Administration of Montecassino.

Activities as Canonist

• Lectura super apparatus ad decretales Gregorii IX.
• Lectura in Constitutiones Innocentii IV.
• Distinctiones

Editions and Sources

• Lectura super apparatus ad decretales Gregorii IX: BERNARDUS DE MONTEMIRATO: Lectura aurea domini Abbatis antiqui, super quinq[ue] libris Decretalium, Maxillus alias Übelin [Titelholzschnitt von Hans Baldung Grien], Schott, Argentine[n] 1511.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• see:  Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists,
• KUTTNER, Stephan: Wer war der Dekretalist ‚Abbas Antiquus‘, in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Kanonistische Abteilung, Vol.26/1, De Gruyter, 1937, pp.471-489.
• 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.130-132.