Complete Course of Patrology, Latin Series, Volume 205

Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina, Tomus CCV

Volume 205 of J.-P. Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina, published in Paris in 1855. This volume contains principally the works of Peter Cantor (Petrus Cantor, d. 1197), precentor of Notre-Dame de Paris, including his major moral-theological compendium Verbum Abbreviatum. Additional minor works by contemporary Parisian masters are appended. The text is printed in the standard Patrologia Latina two-column format with sequentially numbered columns.

Author

Peter Cantor

Petrus Cantor

1130–1197

Readings

The Abridged Word, Chapters XXV–XL

Verbum Abbreviatum, Capita XXV–XL

Chapters 25–40 of Peter Cantor's Verbum Abbreviatum, the section of the work devoted to simony. Chapter 25 opens against those who exercise ecclesiastical offices or spiritual functions for temporal reward. Subsequent chapters work through the distinctions, circumstances, and borderline cases of simoniacal exchange: receiving benefices in hope of temporal gain, the role of episcopal intent in benefice resignations, gratis ordination, and the limits of what counts as simoniacal. Together these chapters constitute the most concentrated treatment of simony in the Verbum Abbreviatum, drawing on Scripture, canon law, and Patristic authority.

Peter Cantor·1191·Latin·Capita XXV–XL·col. 95–134