Details

Other Title:

Acta consilii basiliensis.

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- History -- 15th century.
Catholic Church.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Contents:

1. f.1r-9v: Oratio in congregatione generali [22 August 1432] / Andrea de Petra.
2. f.9v-15r: Oratio ad patres concilii / Johannes, archbishop of Taranto [on behalf of Pope Eugene IV, on church unity].
3. f.15v-34v: Responsio synodalis de autoritate cuiuslibet concilii generalis supra papam [1432].
4. f.35r-46v: Oratio luculenta ad convertendum Bohemos / Julianus Caesarinus [incomplete, missing final 2 leaves?].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Titles and attribution for speeches and statements from the Zacour-Hirsch, taken from Mansi.
Dates for speeches from Mansi.
Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 46 + i (modern paper); [1-46]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 35-37 long lines.
Script: Written in a 15th-century German cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Red initials at the beginning of each speech.
Binding: Modern half-vellum.
Watermark: Similar or identical with Briquet, 2774.
Origin: Written in Germany between 1432 and 1450.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1955.

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), pp. 14-15 (Ms. Latin 64).
Texts have been identified in Mansi, Giovan Domenico. Sacrorum conciliorum nova, et amplissima collectio, vol. 29, but do not follow his sequence.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 707

Contributor:

Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447.

OCLC:

212091732