[3] In 1232 a sale of land to Hugo von Ripelin, then the paddock prior of the Dominican Predigerkloster in Zürich, is mentioned.
[6] The incunabula of Venice, Lyons, Strasbourg, Ulm, and Nuremberg enumerated by Ludwig Hain[7] are without the author's name.
Bach in the Kirchenlexicon (I, 427) make Albert of Strasburg the author, but recent researches go to show that such a person never existed.
Again, some held Bonaventure to be its author, with the result that the Compendium found a place in the appendix of the eighth volume of his works (Rome, 1588–96).
Among other theologians to whom it was ascribed are Hugh of Saint Cher, Alexander of Hales, Aureolus, the Oxford Dominican Thomas of Sutton, Peter of Tarantasia and others.