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Huguccio: The Life, Works and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist. By WOLFGANG P.
MULLER. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law 3. Washington,
D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1994. ix + 220 pp.
It is one of the great ironies of medieval canon law studies that the Summa decretorum of Huguccio-generally considered from the late twelfth century forward as one of the most important testimonies to, and monuments of, medieval canonical jurisprudence-remains unpublished, and still must be consulted in manuscript versions of markedly uneven reliability. This irony is even greater when one remembers that more modern scholarship has been devoted to Huguccio than perhaps to any other canonist of the twelfth century, saving of course Master Gratian.
The present work, while acknowledging this deficiency (for example, at p. 136), is not merely a study of the Summa decretorum-Huguccio's magisterial and continuous gloss on the Decretum, which Gratian himself had intended to be a complete statement...