Details

Subjects:

Wesel, Johann Ruchart von, approximately 1425-1481.
Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Trials (Heresy) -- Germany.
Christian heretics -- Early works to 1800.
Inquisition -- Germany.
Inquisition.
Christian heretics.
Trials (Heresy).
Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) -- Church history.
Germany.

Form/Genre:

Legal documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Record of the heresy trial of Johann von Wesel, convened by the archbishop of Mainz in 1479, which resulted in the public revocation of his errors.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Heading (f. 182r): Anno domini MCCCCLXXIX Reverendissimus archiepiscopus Moguntinus misit litteras ad universitatem Heydelbergensem et Coloniensem pro theologis examinationis articulos magistri Johannis de Wesalia de heresi suspectos.
According to the text in the Collectio Judiciorum de Novis Erroribus, this account was composed by one of the theologians from the universities of Heidelberg and Cologne; that statement does not appear in this manuscript.
Collation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 11 + v (modern paper); 1¹⁰(+1); [i], 183-192; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a Gothic bâtarde script.
Decoration: Red used for heading (f. 182r) and for highlighting.
Watermarks: Similar to Piccard IV. ix. 780-797.
Binding: Modern half morocco. The pages show evidence of having been trimmed or cut before being rebound.
Origin: Written in Germany (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1479 (f. 182r).
Hinges weak from red rot; spine crumbling; back cover board completely detached.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1958.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 162 (Ms. Lea 68).
Du Plessis d'Argentré, Charles. Collectio Judiciorum de Novis Erroribus (Paris, 1755), vol. I, pt. 2, pp. 291-298 [see esp. p. 292, col. 2, line 10-p. 197, col. 2, line 54]. A photocopy of these pages is on file in the Library. The text of the present manuscript differs in several respects from that printed by Du Plessis d'Argentré.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 90

OCLC:

155962327