Details

Subjects:

Election law (Canon law).
Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law.
Election law (Canon law) -- Early works to 1800.
Toulouse (France) -- Church history.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Summary:

Two unbound quires from a work dealing with a section of canon law, with Mandagot's own gloss on his work and some details relating to the church at Toulouse, where the author was provost for a time.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Incipit: Venerabili viro discretione scientia et moribus...
Explicit: ...in eodem opere contulit sua ineffabili pietate sit benedictio et claritas sapientia et gratiarum actio honor virtus et fortitudo in secula seculorum, amen. Explicit libellus electionum editus a magistro Guillermo de Mandagote archidiacono Nemausis (f. 24r).
Collation: Parchment, 24; 2¹²; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 35-44 lines with commentary framing the main text.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Decoration: Historiated initial of the author Guillaume de Mandagot teaching, with drollery of rabbit playing bagpipes (f. 1r); rubricated in red and blue, with decorated initials with penwork ornamentation in red and blue, in both text and commentary.
Origin: Written in France, possibly Avignon, in the early 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Same text as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 103.
Parchment is brittle, cracking along outer edges of some leaves.

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 115).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 729

OCLC:

155985539

Web link:

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