[390] Post, Chapter XXXV., I.
[391] The Bologna school is commonly called the school of the glossators. Their work was to expound the law of Justinian; and their glosses, or explanatory notes, were the part of their writings which had the most permanent influence. The glosses were originally written between the lines or on the margins of the codices of the Digest, Codex, Novels, and Institutes.
[392] Savigny gives examples of Irnerius’s glosses in an appendix to the fourth volume of his Geschichte. Pescatore (Die Glossen des Irnerius, Greifswald, 1888) maintains that Savigny overstates the difference between the interlinear and the marginal glosses of Irnerius.
[393] On Placentinus see Savigny, Geschichte, iv. pp. 244-285.
[394] Proemium to De var. actionum, given by Savigny, iv. p. 540.
[395] This is from the proemium attached to one old edition, and is given in Sav. Ges. iv. p. 245. In an appendix, p. 542, Savigny gives an even more florid proemium to the Summa Codicis from a manuscript.
[396] On Azo, see Savigny, Ges. v. pp. 1-44.
[397] Quoted by Savigny. On Accursius see Sav. Ges. v. pp. 262-305.
[398] On Bartolus see Savigny, Ges. etc. vi. pp. 137-184.
[399] Cf. Savigny, Ges. v. pp. 222-261.