Johannes de Deo (died 1267)

Rubric from the start of the Liber poenitentiarius in an Austrian manuscript of c. 1400. The elongated initial belongs to Incipit liber ('the book begins') and the name Johanne de Deo is in the third line from the top.

Johannes de Deo[1] (c. 1190 – 15 March 1267) was a Portuguese priest, judge and scholar of canon law who taught for over twenty years at the University of Bologna. He was a prolific writer.

  1. ^ His name translates at "John of God". His given name may be spelled Iohannes or Joannes. Other Latin surnames besides de Deo include Bononiensis, Ictus and Yspanus. In other languages his name is translated João de Deus (Portuguese), Juan de Dios (Spanish), Giovanni di Dio (Italian) and Jean de Dieu (French). See Iohannes de Deo, in Rolf Schönberger (ed.), Alcuin: Infothek der Scholastik (Universität Regensburg, 2022).