Sententiae Sidonis
| Title | Sententiae Sidonis |
|---|---|
| Size | large (1000 to 2000 canons) |
| Century | saec. XII |
| General region of origin | Southern Europe and Mediterranean |
| Author | Linda Fowler-Magerl |
| Structure | by topic |
| No. of manuscripts | one |
General
The Sententiae Sidonis (Fournier's Sentence de Sidon) are a so-called sentence collection from the twelfth century extant in Vat. lat. 1345, containing mainly "theological" but also canon law material. Its formal sources are other sentence collections (the Summa sententiarum and the Deus itaque summa), the Panormia, and maybe Abelard's Sic et non (according to John Wei). Material taken from the Panormia includes the Papal Election Decree of 1059, a version of the Donation of Constantine, and the false Investiture Privileges.
The Sententiae are divided into 18 books. According to Fournier, they contain a total of ca. 1900 chapters, some 1150 of which are "canon law"; almost all of the latter are taken from the Panormia.
The collection, compiled by a certain Ubaldus according to the preface, probably originated in twelfth-century Italy; the sole manuscript, however, was likely written in the Holy Land.
The manuscript is online (with bibliorgaphy) https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Vat.lat.1345
Literature
- Fournier, Collections attribuées à Yves, 664-667 (quoting the prologue to the collection at 665).
- Jasper, Papstwahldekret, 11-12.
- Landgraf, Summa Sententiarum
- Märtl, Überlieferung, 36.
- Petersmann, Constitutum Constantini p. 386
- Wei, [https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004394384_008
Scholasticism] pp. 119-120.
