Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church. Curia Romana.
Catholic Church -- Spain -- History.
Catholic Church.
Marriage (Canon law) -- Early works to 1800.
Benefices, Ecclesiastical -- Spain.
Ecclesiastical law -- Spain.
Ecclesiastical law.
Indulgences (Canon law).
Absolution (Canon law).
Benefices, Ecclesiastical.
Marriage (Canon law).
History.
Spain.
Absolution (Canon law) -- Early works to 1800.
Indulgences (Canon law) -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish, with some terms in Latin.

Summary:

A schedule of rates set by the Roman Curia for a wide range of services provided by the Catholic Church in Spain, accompanied by text explaining when said services are allowed. The manuscript is divided into three parts. The first part (f. 1r-19v) outlines the cases in which marriage is not permitted, circumstances that may warrant an exception to these cases, and a schedule of rates for such dispensations. The second part (f. 20r-36v) is concerned with the protocol to be followed in the valuation, administration, transfer, and other actions applied to ecclesiastical benefices. The third part (f. 37r-49r) covers church policy on many topics including absolutions, commutations, and indulgences.

Contents:

1. f.1r-19v: Capitulo primero que trata de los impedimentos por los quales no se puede contraher matrimonio en los grados prohividos por el derecho y concilio de Trento.
2. f.20r-36v: Parte segunda que trata de las causas benficiales y su modo de expedicion en Roma.
3. f.37r-49r: Tercera parte que trata de diversas causas y materias meregratiosas tanto in foro conscientiae quanto in exteriori y su modo de expedicion en esta Curia Romana.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Spine title.
Foliation: Paper, 51; 1-40, 40-49, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords in lower right corners.
Layout: Written in 20-21 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Decoration: Decorated 2- and 3-line initials at the beginning of sections and chapters; large decoration in ink at the end of first section (f. 19v).
Watermark: Anchor watermark similar to Mošin, 1301; variation on watermark also appears without initial and with arrowhead issuing from top of circle.
Binding: Contemporary parchment (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in Spain in the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside lower cover).

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. 156 (Ms. Lea 38).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1378

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

302357763