Details

Subjects:

Ecclesiastical law -- Hungary.
Ecclesiastical law.
History.
Church history.
Hungary.
Jews -- Hungary.
Jews.
Hungary -- Church history -- Sources.
Hungary -- History -- 1699-1848 -- Sources.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Decrees.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.
Sources.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

First volume of a list of ecclesiastical decrees by subject, with entries arranged in alphabetical sections based on a subject keyword at the beginning of each entry, through the letter L. Geographical names in the entries and multiple references to acatholici and articularia loca localize the decrees to Hungary, where the religious observances of Protestants (acatholici) were restricted to designated sites (articularia loca, also referred to as loci articulati). Other religious subjects of decrees include apostasy, baptism, bigamy, blasphemy, books, dioceses, feast days, Franciscans, the Greek Rite, heresy, Jews, and oaths. A section of blank leaves follows each alphabetical section, and an appendix for additional decrees, written in a second hand, follows most alphabetical sections.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine title.
Pagination: Paper, iii + 325 leaves; 1-31, 32-46 (blank but paginated), [i-xlviii (blank)], 47-52, 53-66 (blank but paginated), [i-xxxii (blank)], 67-108, 109-120 (blank but paginated), 121-123, 124-126 (blank but paginated), [i-xxxvi (blank)], 127-150, 151-174 (blank but paginated), [i-iv (blank), v-vi, vii-xxx (blank)], 175-189, 190-206 (blank but paginated), [i-viii (blank), ix-x, xi-xx (blank)], 207-221, 222-238 (blank but paginated), [i-vi (blank), vii-viii, ix-xx (blank)], 239-252, 253-272 (blank but paginated), [i-xx (blank)], 273-278, 279-288 (blank but paginated), [i-xxxii], 289-302, 307-308, 309-320 (blank but paginated), [i-xvi (blank), xvii, xviii-xxviii (blank)], 321, 322-324 (blank but paginated), [i-xxxvi (blank)], 325-340, 341-351 (blank but paginated; last leaf glued to endpaper); early foliation in ink, upper outer corners. Catchword on each page, lower right corner. The manuscript seems to have signatures, A-A5 through Z-Z5, but they are unevenly spaced, usually with two or three leaves between the fifth leaf of one letter and the first of the next, and not accounting for the sections of blank leaves between letter sections.
Layout: Written in 27-29 long lines, with appendices in 44-47 long lines; ruled in lead in 3 columns, a narrow left column for the subject keyword of the decree, the main central column for the summary of the decree, and a narrow column on the right for the year of the decree.
Script: Written in cursive script by two hands, one in the original alphabetical sections and the other in the appendices and additions at the ends of some alphabetical sections.
Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) mottled calf with probably Hungarian crest gilt stamped on upper cover, gilt spine.
Origin: Probably written in Hungary, circa 1768 (date of latest decree recorded, p.31).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1658

Contributor:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

900616549