Praepositinus (Gilbert Prevostin of Cremona, Prevostinus Cremonensis) (c. 1135 – 1210) was an Italian scholastic philosopher and theologian.
Having studied under Petrus Comestor and taught at Paris, he was scholasticus of Mainz Cathedral in 1196.
[4] In 1209 he was replaced as chancellor by John of Chandelle; he retired to an abbey and died shortly after, in 1210.
[5] The following are authentic: a Summa theologica of which books I and IV have been published; Collecta ex distinctionibus, a work known by a manuscript in Munich, which expounds Scripture in alphabetical order of the words considered (114); a Summa super Psalterium (several manuscripts); a Tractatus de officiis which uses Jean Beleth’s Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis written between 1160 and 1164, but does not know Sicard of Cremona’s Mitrale (early 13th c.).
More than 60 sermons are allowed to Praepositinus, only one of which has been published (J. Longère, Mélanges Dom Bascour, Louvain, 1980, p. 207-211; preached to clerics at Munich and Paris).