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[GRATIAN]. Chaucer does not mention this author of the Decretum when he refers to the book. Gratian appears to be unknown except as the author of the Decretum, composed in the first half of the twelfth century. This work includes about four thousand chapters and is divided into three parts.

Dame Prudence quotes from the Book of Decrees, Part 2, Causa i, Question l, chapter 25, Mel 1404. The reference is in Renaud de Louens's Le Livre de Mellibee et Prudence, 638, Chaucer's source for his Tale of Melibee. [Damasie]


J.B. Severs, S&A, 592; Gratian, Decretum, ed. A. Friedberg, in Corpus iuris canonici I.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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