glossators

The labours of Justinian have come down to us in the form of texts of the so-called glossators during the Middle Ages.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Azo occupied a very important position amongst the glossators, and his _Readings on the Code_, which were collected by his pupil, Alessandro de Santo Aegidio, and completed by the additions of Hugolinus and Odofredus, form a methodical exposition of Roman law, and were of such weight before the tribunals that it used to be said, "Chi non ha Azzo, non vada a palazzo."

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Its founder was Irnerius, and he was the first of the glossators.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Thus, the Greek texts, while of little value to the glossators, were yet a potent factor in the second renaissance of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

It is, however, in all probability, only one of the texts from which the glossators worked, and, when the errors of copyists are considered, its antiquity should not entitle it to overrule the vulgate.

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Placentinus and Vacarius were others of the glossators.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The material conditions under which a book was spread before the invention of printing (1440), the little care of the copyists, correctors, and glossators for the text, so different from the desire of accuracy exhibited to-day, explain sufficiently the divergences we find between various manuscripts of the same work.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The glossators known as the four doctors all belonged to Bologna; and that school acquired a reputation in civil law equal to that of Paris in theology and canon law.

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Furthermore, in accordance with the internal nature of these three penalties, glossators and commentators, and in their wake later canonists introduced and maintained the distinction, still universally recognized, between medicinal or remedial punishments (censures) and vindictive punishments.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The glossators worked from earlier manuscripts and harmonized conflicting texts into a generally accepted lectio vulgata

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913