Details

Standardized Title:

Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio. Selections.

Subjects:

Confession -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Penance (Canon law).
Usury -- Early works to 1800.
Usury.
Confession -- Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions)
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Handbooks and manuals.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Leaf from Liber II, Titulus 7 (De usuris), paragraphs 4-8, of the Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio, a manual for confessors. The parchment leaf, written in the mid-13th century, probably in southern France, is frame-ruled in lead and written in 2 columns of 33 lines (110 x 78 mm.) in proto-Gothic script. Paragraph marks alternate between red and blue, one with extensions; the running headings (II on verso, L on recto) indicate that this leaf is from Liber II.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 147 (LJS 115).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 115

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

720648222

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page