Details

Other Title:

Summa Raymundi.

Subjects:

Bible -- Dictionaries.
Bible.
Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Form/Genre:

Dictionaries.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Latin.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Verse summary of Raymond of Peñaforte's Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio; canon law on marriage, simony, usury, luxury, bigamy, etc. (f. 1-20r), with a brief Bible dictionary, arranged in canonical order, not in alphabetical order (f. 20v-24).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: A summis festis ad missam dicitur una.
Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + i (modern parchment) + 24 + i (modern parchment) + ii (modern paper); [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, upper and lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 32 long lines; frame-ruled in ink; prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with marginal notes in a second hand.
Decoration: Rubricated with red used for initials, capitals and underlining.
Binding: Modern red leather, gold stamped.
Origin: Written in France in the 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
See also UPenn Ms. Codex 730.

Penn Provenance:

Sold in the collection of the Bibliothèque Victor Luzarches at auction by Claudin, 9 March 1868.
Formerly owned by Ernest Stroehlin (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1957.

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. 19 (Ms. Latin 89).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 741.

Contributor:

Strœhlin, Ernest, 1844-1907, former owner.

Contains:

Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275. Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio.

OCLC:

155985519

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