Pope John XXII – 1333
Bull on granting insignia and honor to the scholars by the University of Salamanca
1333, diciembre, 2. Aviñón. Bula de Juan XXII en que concede a la Universidad de Salamanca que la colación de grados sea aneja al maestraescuela catedral.
Joannes episcopus servus servorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Summa providit altitudo consilii provideque disposuit ut in filiis hominum divinarum et humanarum rerum cognitio haberetur, sine qua recte ipsorum vita non regitur, donec perveniatur ad metas stadii hujus lucis. Per exercitium quippe lectionis cum vehementi applicatione animi reperitur sapientiae ac scientiae margarita.
Propter quod legis annectae veneranda moralitas generalia studit litterarum et illis etiam insistentes laudabiliter consuevit specialibus afferre privilegiis et praecipuis favoribus communire. Nuper siquidem ex tenore petitionis dilcctorum filiorum rectorum, universitatis, doctorum et scholarium studii civitatis Salamantinae ac ipsius universitatis ac consilii civitatis ejusdem, nobis oblatae percepimus quod felicis recordationis Alexander papa quartus praedecessor noster studio praedicto per privilegium speciale concessit quod hii qui in praefato studio in quacumque facultate legitimo examine praecedente inventi forent idonei et approbati ad legendum, in quolibet generali studio, Parisiensi et Bononiensi studiis dumtaxat exceptis, in facultate ipsa pro qua ibi semel examen subirent, sine iterato examine possent regere, contradictione cujuscumque aliquatenus non obstante; quodque pro eo quod idem praedecessor certae personae examinationem et approbationem eorum qui in facultatibus quibus student scientiae bravium assequuntur eisdern impertiendi magistratus et doctoratus insignia et honorem ac regendi et docendi licentiam non commisit, honori dicti studii multipliciter derogatur.
Quare nobis praefati rectores, universitas et consilium humiliter supplicarunt ut pro bono reipublicae providere in hac parte ipsis et dicto studio per speciale privilegium de apostolicae sedis clementia et benignitate solita dignaremur.
Nos igitur praedictum studium florere ac fructificare illudque concrescere nunc et successivis temporibus affectantes, carissimi in Christo filii nostri Alfonsi regis Castellae illustris, qui nobis super hoc pluries humiliter supplicavit, ac eorumdem rectorum, universitatis et consilii devotis supplicationibus inclinati, cum praedicti universitas jurisdictioni scholastici ecclesiae Salamantinae qui est pro tempore ab antiquo subjecti fuisse ac esse noscantur, praesentium auctoritate statuimus et ordinamus atque concedimus ut dilectus filius scholasticus ipsius ecclesiae qui nunc est et is qui pro tempore fuerit, possit per se vel alium seu alios dare licentiam regendi ubique ac insignia hujusmodi et honorem concedere illis qui reperti fuerint in studio praedicto idonei in qualibet facultate, in qua ibidem semel examinati et probati exstiterint sub legitimo examine juxta modos et ordinationes, solemnitates et consuetudines quae in talibus et aliis studiis generalibus observantur.
Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrorum statuti, ordinitionis et concessionis infringere vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attemptare praesumpserit, indignationem omnipotentis Dei et beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum ejus se noverit incursurum.
Datum Avenione quarto nonas decembris pontificatus nostri anno decimooctavo.
AUS: Bulas Pontificias, orig. perg.; cops.: ms. 210 fol. 34, ms. 211 fols. 44v.-45v., ms. 212 fol. 7. AVR: Reg. Avin. 45, fol. 161. Ed.: Documentos referentes…, 1885, págs. IX-XI; AJO, CUH, I, 1957, n. LIII; BELTRÁN DE HEREDIA, Bulario, I , 1966, n. 28, de quien se ha tomado el texto.
English Translation
Pope John XXII – 1333
1333, December 2. Avignon. Bull of John XXII granting the University of Salamanca that the conferral of degrees be attached to the cathedral master’s school.
John the bishop, the servant of the servants of God, in perpetual remembrance of the matter. The supreme one provided the height of the plan, and provided for it that the children of men should have a knowledge of divine and human things, without which their lives would not be rightly governed, until they had reached the goals of this stage of light. Indeed, through the exercise of reading with a strong application of the mind, the pearl of wisdom and knowledge is found.
Because of this, the venerable morality attached to the law studies the general morality of literature, and even insisting on them, it is laudably accustomed to confer special privileges and special favors. Recently, from the tenor of the petition of the said sons of the governors, of the university, of the teachers and scholars of the study of the city of Salamanca, and of the university itself and of the council of the same city, we have perceived that, of happy memory, Alexander the fourth pope, our predecessor, by means of the aforesaid study, granted a special privilege to those who in the aforesaid study in any by means of a legitimate previous examination, they shall be found fit and approved to read, in any general study, with the exception of those of Paris and Bologna, by the very faculty for which they once underwent an examination there, they could govern without a repeated examination, notwithstanding the contradiction of any one to some extent; and for the fact that the same predecessor of a certain person did not undertake the examination and approval of those who, in the faculties in which they study science, achieve excellence, in addition to the awarding of magistrates and doctorate insignia and honor, and the license to govern and teach, the honor of the said study is multiplied.
Wherefore the aforesaid governors, the university, and the counsel humbly besought us to provide for the good of the republic in this part for themselves and for the aforesaid study by a special privilege of the apostolic see’s usual clemency and kindness.
We, therefore, affecting the aforesaid study to flourish and bear fruit, and to increase it now and in successive times, our dearest son in Christ, Alphonsus, the illustrious king of Castile, who humbly besought us for this many times, and inclined to the devout supplications of the same rulers, the university, and the council, with the aforesaid university under the scholastic jurisdiction of the church Salamantine, who is for the time known to have been and to be a subject from ancient times, by the authority of the present, we establish and order and grant that he is a beloved scholarly son of the church itself who Now it is also that he who has been for the time may, by himself or another or others, give license to rule everywhere, and to grant such insignia and honor to those who have been found in the aforesaid study to be qualified in any capacity, in which they have once there been examined and approved under a legitimate examination according to the manners and ordinances, solemnities and customs which are observed in such and other general studies.
Therefore, no person at all is allowed to violate this page of our statute, order and concession or to contravene it with a reckless venture. But if any one presumes to attempt this,he knew that he would incur the indignation of Almighty God and his blessed apostles Peter and Paul.
Given at Avenius on the fourth ninth of December in the eighteenth year of our pontificate.
AUS: Papal Bulls, orig. perg.; cops.: ms. 210 fol. 34, ms. 211 fols. 44v.-45v., ms. 212 fol. 7. AVR: Reg. Avin. 45, fol. 161. Ed.: Documentos secundarios…, 1885, pp. IX-XI; AJO, CUH, I, 1957, n. LIII; BELTRÁN DE HEREDIA, Bullario, I , 1966, n. 28, from whom the text is taken.
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