Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Augustinians.
Monasticism and religious orders.
Bulls, Papal.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Papal documents.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Notarial documents.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of papal letters and instruments regarding the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine of Rouen, with copies of documents by Clement VI, Innocent IV, Urban VI, Boniface VIII, Alexander IV, Martin V, Eugene IV, Nicholas V, and Sixtus IV. Includes a letter by the cardinal protector of the order, Guillaume de Estouteville; collection notarized by Marco Marzio Saxoferratensis (f. 29).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit (f. 1r): Guilielmus miseratione divina episcopus ostiensis sacrosanctae Romae ecclesiae Cardinalis Rotomagensis vulgaritur nuncupatus ac sacrae religionis fratrum hermitarum sancti.
Text is the same as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 85 (f. 1-31), up to the notation "Feb. 6, 1475" (f. 28v). The end of Ms. Codex 736 and the letter from Cardinal Guillaume de Estouteville are not in Ms. Codex 85.
Foliation: Parchment, i (parchment) + 31; [1-31]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines; ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by one hand, with notarial statement in a second hand, and marginalia in a third hand.
Decoration: Red initials throughout.
Binding: Contemporary doeskin (Zacour-Hirsch). Worm damage, particularly to cover and along spine. Parchment leaf from a lectionary used as pastedown and front flyleaf.
Origin: Written in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch), 29 March 1475 (f. 29r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1963.

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. 44 (Ms. Latin 189).

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 94.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 736.

Contributor:

Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455.

Contains:

Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484.
Alexander IV, Pope, -1261.
Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303.
Urban VI, Pope, 1318-1389.
Martin V, Pope, 1368-1431.
Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447.
Clement VI, Pope, approximately 1291-1352.
Innocent IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1254.
Estouteville, Guillaume d', approximately 1412-1483.
Sassoferrato, Marco Marzio.

OCLC:

212375567