Laurentius

(Decretalist)

Biography

• came from Spain.
• taught Tancred and Bartholomew of Brescia in Bologna.

Activities as Canonist

• After 1210:  Apparatus to the Decretum that was used by Johannes Teutonicus.
• 1208-1212: Wrote an Apparatus to the Compilatio Prima.
• His Glosses are part of the Glossa ordinaria of the Gregorian Decretals and in writings on them.

Introductory Secondary Literature

• SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts. Von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, Vol. 1, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1875, pp. 190-191.