Azo

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Azo Portius (* before 1190; † 1220 ) was a lawyer and glossator in Bologna . He was one of the later famous students of Johannes Bassianus . His best-known work is a textbook-like summary and commentary, a so-called sum, which follows the first nine books of the Codex Iustinianus , the Summa Codicis . He also wrote a Summa Institutionum on the institutions . In the printed editions of the sums planned by Azo as a complete work, they were supplemented with a sum for the digests, of which it is not clear whether and to what extent he worked on it.

He is also the author of several so-called gloss apparatuses (i.e. collections of individual glosses on the Corpus iuris civilis, including the digests ). These gloss apparatus are based on the work of Johannes Bassianus. Perhaps they again served as a template for Azo's even more famous pupil Accursius , whose glossy apparatus, the Glossa ordinaria , which contained almost 100,000 marginal notes, was the standard explanatory work on Roman legal sources in the late Middle Ages and early modern times.

Azo's importance is evident from the fact that he is the only Glossator whose work has not been superseded by the Glossa ordinaria . His sums were the "teaching and manual of Roman law par excellence" (F. Dorn); they were reissued until 1610. The great reputation that Azo itself enjoyed over many centuries can be seen in the Italian saying Chi non ha Azzo non vada al palazzo . This saying can be understood in the sense of "Whoever does not have (an edition of the sums of) Azo (in his possession) is not accepted into the college of judges" and in the sense of "Whoever (the legal opinion of) Azo does not (on his side) ) shouldn't go to court ”.

Works

Ad singulas leges XII librorum Codicis Iustinianei commentarius , 1577
  • Incipit p [ro] hemiu [m] ad summa [m] codicis per d [omi] n [u] m azonem [com] posita [m]: [C] Vm post inue [n] t [i] onez scie [ n] tie // sup [er] uenerit g̃re plenitudo ... Drach, Spire 1482. ( digitized version )
  • Summa Azonis , Pavia 1506 [Neudr. Corpus glossatorum juris civilis. Vol. 2: Azonis Summa super codicem: Instituta extraordinaria, arr. v. Mario Viora, Torino 1966]
  • Azonis In ius civile Summa . Lugduni, 1564 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Brocardica aurea , Naples 1568 [Neudr. Corpus glossatorum juris civilis. Vol. 4: Pilii Medicinensis Quaestiones Sabbatine, Othonis Papiensis Ordo iudiciarius qui dicitur "olim": Azonis Brocarda, Torino 1967] ( Venice edition 1566, digitized version of the BSB )
  • Azonis ad singulas leges XII librorum Codicis Justinianei commentarius , Paris 1577 [Neudr. Corpus glossatorum juris civilis. Vol. 3: Azonis Lectura super codicem: Hugolini Apparatus in tres libros, arr. v. Mario Viora, Torino 1966], 1-717. ( Edition Lyon 1596, digitized version of the BSB )
  • The Quaestiones of the Azo. Edited for the first time from the manuscripts, prefaced and given notes , ed. v. Ernst Landsberg, Freiburg i. Brsg. 1888. online
  • S. Caprioli et al. a. [Ed.], Reliquie preaccursiane , part 1: Duecentotre glosse dello strato azzoniano alle Istituzioni, in: Rivista di storia del diritto italiano 50 (1977) pp. 5–117.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 2 no. 6 (p. 23).
  2. ↑ a b Paul Koschaker : Europe and Roman law . 4th edition, CH Beck'sche Verlagbuchhandlung. Munich, Berlin 1966. pp. 55 ff. (85).

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personal data
SURNAME Azo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and glossator
DATE OF BIRTH before 1190
DATE OF DEATH 1220