Details

Other Title:

Decretales

Subjects:

Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Early works to 1800.
Jesus Christ.
Catholic Church. Liber sextus decretalium.
Catholic Church.
Liber sextus decretalium (Catholic Church).
Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law.
Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800.
Medicinal plants.
Passion of Jesus Christ.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
commentaries.
annotations.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Partial copy of commentaries by Bernardus Raymundus and Garsias Hispanus on the Liber sextus, a major collection of decretals published by Pope Boniface VIII in 1298; includes some marginal annotations, and has a list of the virtues of an unidentified herb and a short apocryphal Passion text (f. 51r-v).

Notes:

Ms. gatherings.
Title from incipit for first work (f. 1r); alternate title from scrap of binding material pasted on the first page of the collection of leaves.
Collation: Parchment, 51; 1-2¹² 3¹¹(+11) 4⁴ 5¹²; [1-51]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords present on lower right verso of quires 1-4, those in quire 3 apply to the additional page of the quire; quires missing between 2 and 3 and between 3 and 4.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 61 lines, ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a rounded Gothic book script; annotations, list, and apocryphal text written in a Gothic cursive script.
Decoration: Puzzle initial with J-chain in red and blue, 11-line (f. 1r), 13-line (f. 27r), 3-line (f. 38r); pen-flourished 2 line initials throughout, small sketches of faces in profile as well as various grotesques in the margins, including a dragon (f. 39r).
Origin: Written in France (Avignon?), ca. 1350.

Penn Provenance:

Quires 1-3 sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1959.
Quires 4-5 sold by Laurence Witten (Southport, Conn.), 1980.

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 114).

Cited as:

Bernardus Raymundus, Apparatus in sexto libro decretalium (Oversize Ms. Codex 1088). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Garsias, Hispanus, Bishop of Sigüenza, active 1277-1299.

Contains:

Apparatus magister Garzie Hyspani super decretali cupientes.

OCLC:

183306676

Access Restriction:

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