Balduinus Brandeburgensis (Balduin von Brandenburg, fl. late thirteenth cent.)

Balduinus Brandeburgensis (Balduin von Brandenburg, fl. late thirteenth cent.) OM. German friar, who might have studied in Magdeburg (Ertl) and apparently also spent some years at the Franciscan studium of Paris. Author of the Summa Titulorum super Decretalibus Gregorii IX (finished by 1270), which to some extent resembles the work of Heinrich von Merseburg, and was used by the friar that compiled the second supplement to Heinrich’s Summa. Balduinus’ work is substantially longer that the Summa of Heinrich. Moreover it resembles in its reach the more famous Summa aurea of the canonist Heinrich von Segusio (Hostiensis). yet Balduin seems to have elaborated his materials independently. The work was meant to instruct regular and secular clerics alike in the basics of canon law necessary for their pastoral obligations. Kurtscheid (1927), 179: ‘…licet intentio auctoris fuerit utrique clero exhibere practicum commentarium iuris canonici, tamen Summa Balduini inter praestantiores huius generis libros saeculi XIII recensenda est. Per totam Summam praevalet indoles iuridica. Auctor in utroque iure est bene versatus; frequenter fontes iuris allegat, et in subsidium tantum argumentorum ad canonistas et theologos recurrit.’ Although Balduinus’ work was solid and extensive, it soon was overshadowed by the Tabula Utriusque Iuris and the Summa Casuum of Johann von Erfurt. He seems to be the same Balduinus Brandeburgensis who convinced Giordano da Giano to write his Chronica and subsequently acted as the chronicler's scribe/secretary, prior to his studies at Paris.

Works

• Summa Titulorum super Decretalibus Gregorii IX : Danzig Stadtbibliothek MS 1873 (XVIII.A.f. 51) ff. 1-278 & MS 1874 (XVIII.B. f. 101) ff. 1-204.

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