Folia Theologica et Canonica 3. 25/17 (2014)

IUS CANONICUM - José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez, The Summa Quoniam in Omnibus revisited

FOLIA THEOLOGICA ET CANONICA (2014) 153-169

José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez

THE SIMM A QVONIAM IN OMNIBUS REVISITED*

The paper revises common explanations about the Summa Quoniam in omnibus (SQO) on the Decretum Gratiani: its making, its authorship and its date of composition. SQO is a School work, a compendium of teachings assembled by an anonymous author in the mid-fifties of the twelfth century.

1. Johannes Friedrich von Schulte did not try to make a critical edition of the Summa Quoniam in omnibus (SQO) traditionally attributed to Paucapalea. He did not observe his own criteria of collating the written witnesses of this commentary on Gratian’s Decretum (DG) either.1 After reading the 1890 printed edition, a modem scholar would probably draw two conclusions: a new edition of the Summa is necessary and common explanations about Paucapalea’s (P) book deserve a revision.2

* Paper read during the XIV International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Toronto, August 2012). The Author thanks the Staff of the Biblioteca de la Facultad de Ciencias Juridicas and the Biblioteca General of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University, as well as the Fundación Dere- cho y Europa (A Coruna, Spain).

1 von Schulte, J. F. (ed.), Die Summa des Paucapalea über das Decretum Gratiani, Giessen 1890 (repr. Aalen 1965): manuscripts, iv-vii; criteria, especially nn. 2,4-6 and 8, xx-xxi. Schulte did not observe his criteria 7 and 9: his footnotes do not identify all the formal sources (7), nor do they reflect all the variants from the main manuscript (9).

2 The common opinion can be summarized as follows: SQO, the first Summa on DG, was written by P at the end of the forties or the begining of the fifties of the twelfth century, and was used by Rufinus, master Roland, Etienne de Tournai, the anonymous author of the Summa Parisiensis and others: cf. Maassen, F., Paucapalea. Ein Beitrag zur Literaturgeschichte des kanonischen Rechts im Mittelalter, Wien 1859 (SBWAW Phil.- Hist.- Classe 31), 450-516. Thaner, F. (ed.), Papst Alexander III. Summa Magistri Rolandi, Innsbruck 1874 (repr. Aalen 1973) xviii. von Schulte, J. F., Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts von G ration bis auf die Gegenwart. Erster Band. Einleitung. Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur von Gratian bis auf Papst Gregor IX, Stuttgart 1875 (repr. New Jersey 2000) 108-114. von Schulte, J. F., Die Summa (n. 1), xiv. von Schulte, J. F. (ed.), Stephan von Doornick (Etienne de Tournai, Stephanus Tornacensis), Die Summa über das Decretum Gratiani, Giessen 1891 (repr. Aalen 1963) x-xi. Singer, H. (ed.), Die Summa Decretorum des Magister Rufinus, Paderborn 1902. cxii. Kuttner, S., Repertorium der Kanonistik (1140-1234). Prodromus Corporis Glos- sarum (Studi e testi 71), Città del Vaticano 1937. 125-127. McLaughlin, T. P. (ed.), The Summa Parisiensis on the Decretum Gratiani, Toronto 1952. xxvi. Pennington, K. - Müller, W. P., The Decretists. The Italian School, in Hartmann, W. - Pennington, K. (ed.), The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140-1234. From Gratian to the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, Washington D.C. 2008. 121-173, esp. 128-131; and Viejo-Ximénez, J. M., Paucapalea, in Otaduy, J. - Viana, A. - Sedano, J. (ed.), Diccionario General de Derecho Canònico, VI. Pamplona 2012. 42-45.