Les principaux commentateurs du Code de Droit Canonique

Commentaires sur le Code de Droit Canonique



Latin :



Udalricus Beste (American Benedictine, 1885-1976), Introductio in Codicem [1938], 5th ed., (M. D'Auria Pontificius, 1961). Reviews: G. Osterle, Ius Pontificium 19 (1939) 109-110 (of first edition); E. Roelker, The Jurist 5 (1945) 309 (of the second edition); E. Roelker, The Jurist 17 (1957) 117-118 (on the fourth edition); J. R. Schmidt, The Jurist 22 (1962) 484-486 (on the fifth edition).

 

Albertus Blat (= Dominican, 1870-1943), Commentarium Textus Codicis Iuris Canonici, in 5 vols., (Libreria del Collegio Angelico, 1921-1922).

 

Felix Cappello (Roman Jesuit,  1879-1962), Summa Iuris Canonici, in 3 vols., (Gregorianum, =) [herein Cappello,  Summa].

 

F. Claeys Bouuaert & G. Simenon, Manuale Juris Canonici [1939], in 3 vols., (Proastat apud Auctores in Seminariis Gandavensi et Leodiensi, various editions and years).

 

Mattheus Conte a Coronata (Italian Capuchin, =), Compendium Iuris Canonci ad usum scholarum, in 3 vols., (Marietti, =) [herein Coronata, Compendium]

 

Mattheus Conte a Coronata (Italian Capuchin, =), Institutiones Iuris Canonici, in 5 vols., (Marietti, =) [herein Coronata, Institutiones]



Guidus Cocchi (Italian Vincentian, 1880-1966), Commentarium in Codicem Iuris Canonici, in 8 vols., various editions and years beginning in 1920, (Marietti, 1928-1932).

 

Ioanne Ferreres (=, 1861-1936),  Institutiones Canonicae iuxta novissimum Codicem … iuxtaque praescripta Hispanae disciplinae et Americae Latinae, in 2 vols., 2nd ed., (Eugenius Subirana, 1920).

 

Heriberto Jone (German Capuchin, 1885-1967), Commentarium in Codicem Iuris Canonici, in 3 vols., (Officina Libraria F. Schönigh, 1950-1955).

 

Dominicus Prümmer (German Dominican, 1866-1931), Manuale Iuris Ecclesiastici [1909], 6th ed., (Herder, 1933)  756 pp.



Jean-Baptiste Raus (= b. 1881), Institutiones Canonicae in forma compendii (Emmanuelis Vitte, 1923) = pp.

 

Eduardo Regatillo (Spanish Jesuit, 1882-1975), Institutiones Iuris Canonici [=], in 2 vols., 6th ed., (Sal Terrae, 1961).

 

Sylvius Romani (=), Institutiones Juris Canonici, in 3 vols., [1941], (Editrice Iustitia, 1944).

 

Sylvius Romani (=), Summa Iuris Canonci Lineamenta (Schola Typographica Missionaria Dominicana, 1939) 328 pp.



Stephanus Sipos (Hungarian priest, 1875-1949), Enchiridion Iuris Canonici [1926], 6th ed. rev. by L. Gálos, (Orbis Catholicus-Herder, 1954) 913 pp. Reviews: E. Roelker, The Jurist 15 (1955) 109-110; gc,  Ephemerides Iuris Canonici 11 (1955) 494. On the place of Sipos in canonistics, see Anon., "In Memoriam", in Sipos, Enchirdion, vii-viii.

 

Arturus Vermeersch (Belgian Jesuit, 1858-1936) & Josephus Creusen (Belgian Jesuit, 1880-1960),  Epitome Iuris Canonici cum Commentariis [1922-1925], in 3 vols., 4th ed., (Dessain, 1930-1931). For more information on Vermeersch, see Joseph Creusen  Belgian Jesuit, 1880-1960), Le Pére Arthur Vermeersch, S.J., L’homme et l’oeuvre (Desclée, 1947) 222 pp.



Franciscus Wernz (German Jesuit, 1842-1914) and Petrus Vidal (Catalan Jesuit, 1867-1938), Jus Canonicum ad Codicis Normam Exactum, in 7 vols., variously bound, in up to three editions, later editions edited by P. Aguirre and F. Cappello (Gregorianum, 1924-1949). This work is a posthumous revision by Vidal of Wernz’s magisterial Ius Decretalium in light of the 1917 Code. On the authority of Wernz, see e. g., R. Naz, “Wernz, François-Xavier”, DDC VII: 1636-1638, and D. Oesterle, “In piam Francisci Wernz S. I. memoriam”, Gregorianum 24 (1943) 9-22.



Espagnol :



L. Domínguez, et al., Código de Derecho Canónico y Legislación Complementaria: Texto bilingüe y comentado por professors de la Pontificia Universidad de Salamanca [=], 3rd ed., (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1949) 1067 pp.



aa.vv., Comentarios al Código de Derecho Canónico con el texto legal latino y castellano, in 4 vols., (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1963-1964).



Anglais :



John Abbo (Italian priest, 1911-1994) and Jerome Hannan (American prelate, 1896-1965), The Sacred Canons: A Concise Presentation of the Current Disciplinary Norms of the Church, in 2 vols. (Herder, 1952). Review: F. McManus, The Jurist 21 (1961) 281-282 (on the second revised edition of 1960).  Discussion of Book IV, and even more so V, is quite abbreviated.

 

Dom Augustine (Charles Bachofen, Swiss/American Benedictine, 1872-1944), A Commentary on the New Code of Canon Law, in 8 vols. (Herder, 1918-1922).  Highly-regarded. The honorific "Dom" is important for avoiding the jarring references to "Augustine". One could simply refer to the author as Bachofen. On the place of Dom Augustine in canonistics, see Lawrence Wrenn, "Charles Augustine, O.S.B., excepts from a journal", The Jurist 45 (1985) 297-320.



Lincoln Bouscaren (American Jesuit, 1884-1971) and Adam Ellis (American Jesuit, 1889-1961), Canon Law: A Text and Commentary [1946], 4th ed. by F. Korth, (Bruce, 1966) 1011 pp. Review: E. Roelker, The Jurist 7 (1947) 247-248 (of the first edition).

 

Matthew Ramstein (Conventual, 1897-1952), A Manual of Canon Law (Terminal Printing, 1948) 768 pp. Review: E. Roelker, The Jurist 8 (1948) 272-273.

 

Fernando della Rocca (=), Manual of Canon Law, Thatcher trans., (Bruce, 1958) 624 pp. Review: R. O'Brien, The Jurist 20 (1960) 232-234.

 

Stanislaus Woywod (German/American Franciscan, 1880-1941), A Practical Commentary on the Code of Canon Law [1925], in 2 vols., rev. by C. Smith (Wagner/Herder, 1957).



Français :



Adrien Cance (Sulpician, =), Le Code de Droit Canonique, in 4 vols., (Gabalda, various editions and years).

 

Francisque Cimetier (French Sulpician, 1888-1946), Pour étudier le Code de Droit Canonique [1927], 3rd ed., (Libraire Lecoffre, 1927/1933) with Supplement.

 

Joseph Mothon (= Dominican, =), Institutions Canoniques, in 3 vols., (Descleé, 1924).

 

R. Naz, ed., Traité de Droit Canonique, in 4 vols., rev. ed., [=] (Letouzey et Ané, 1954). Review: C. Lefebvre, Ephemerides Iuris Canonici 4 (1948) 594-596.



Allemand :



Eduard Eichmann (German priest, 1870-1946), Lehrbuch des Kirchenrechts auf Grund des Codex Iuris Canonici, in 3 vols., [1923] 9th ed., rev. by. K. Mörsdorf, (Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 1958-1960).



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