Resumen de Glosses and the juridical genre “apparatus glossarum” in the middle ages
Preliminary remark. 1. Terms “gloss”, “layer of glosses”, and “apparatus”. – 2. Antiquity and early Middle Ages up to 1100. – 3. Twelfth century:
theologians redacted an apparatus to the Bible. – 4. Knowledge of Roman law was scant, before “Irnerius” intensified its teaching. – 5. “Irnerius” taught Justinian’s Roman law in detail, in Bologna. – 6. Liber magistri: a specimen of a source-text, personally used by a renowned law teacher. – 7. Layers of glosses in one specimen may match layers in another specimen. – 8. Some glosses bear a siglum: it indicates derivation from a certain Liber magistri. – 9. In the twelfth century the general setting for law-teaching outside Bologna differed between canon law and Roman law. – 10. Outside Bologna, extracts or abbreviations or summae were used. – 11. More substitute texts which were used for teaching (and were thus glossed) outside Bologna. – 12. After 1180: standard apparatuses were reproduced by copying glosses from margins of specimens of source-texts. – 13. 1215 onward (circa): apparatuses were now reproduced by means of copying from peciae. – 14.
Techniques to link the main text to respective glosses on the margin. – 15. Layout of apparatuses, 13th - 15th centuries. – 16. Details on apparatuses in which the wording of glosses was firmly redacted. – 17. Apparatuses to regional legislation and customs. – 18. Apparatuses to works of literature on the learned law.
