Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church. Constitutiones Clementis V.
Catholic Church.
Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Commentary on part of the Corpus Juris Canonici.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); author attribution in upper margin of first leaf (f. 1r).
Incipit: Magnifice bonitatis mireque pietatis vira domino Johannii (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, 52; [1-52]; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 80 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with many marginal notes in different hands.
Decoration: 10-line red and blue puzzle initial with red and purple ornamentation (f. 1r); 2-line alternating red and blue initials with red or purple contrasting ornamentation; numerous manicules in different styles throughout.
Not bound, in 5 quires.
Origin: Written in southern France or Spain, possibly Aragon, in the mid-14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1959.

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. 25 (Ms. Latin 111).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 728

OCLC:

212374264