Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law.
Pastoral theology -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Pastoral theology -- Catholic Church.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Sacraments -- Catholic Church.
Clergy.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Handbooks and manuals.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

John Borough is also known as John de Burgh and John de Burgo. He was a divine and became chancellor of Cambridge University in 1384.

Summary:

Handbook of canon law and pastoral theology for parish priests (f. 1r-177v). It appears to be a reworking of an earlier manual (circa 1320) by William of Pagula. Part and chapter numbers are written in the upper outer corners, and subsections of chapters are marked with marginal letters in alphabetical order, a through z, then aa-az, ba-bz if necessary (for example, f. 68v). Followed by an alphabetical register (tabula) for the work (f. 178r-193v), which references the chapter section letters.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine and explicit (f. 177v). The author's name is given on the spine and in the Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue as John de Burgh.
Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Humane condicio nature iam senescente mundo de cursu temptoris [sic] continue vergens ... (f. 177v) Et sic tractatus ite [sic] sub denario numero partium terminatur.
Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 193 + i (modern paper); 1-7¹², 8¹⁰, 9-14¹², 15¹²(-1), 16¹², 17⁴; [1-193]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Remnants of trimmed signatures in red ink visible in the lower right recto corner of a few leaves, for example in quire 2 (f. 13r, 14r), quire 9 (f. 99r), and quire 11 (f. 119r). Catchwords in an enlarged Gothic textualis script, lower right of last verso of each quire, in a decorative border. The catchword at the bottom of f. 130v does not match the first words of f. 131r; this suggests that a quire may be missing. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 45 lines.
Script: Written in Gothic cursive script with the first line of each chapter in Gothic textualis, by a single hand.
Decoration: 7-line initial in blue and red with penwork ornamentation and decorated border (f. 1r). Blue initials with red and blue ornamentation, paragraph markers and rubrication found throughout.
Binding: 20th-century American olive cloth over cardboard (rebound after 1978 for the Lea Library, University of Pennsylvania); formerly 19th-century vellum over thin boards (Collins and Dean).
Origin: Written in England or Wales in the first quarter of the 15th century.
Welsh ownership notes and an abraded ownership note at the end of the volume (f. 193v).
On file in the Library is a three-page description of the manuscript and discussion of its contents by Peter Collins and Ruth J. Dean of the University of Pennsylvania, dated May 1974. It is accompanied by photographs and materials describing the cathedral of St. Deiniol in Bangor, Wales.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the church of St. Deiniol (cathedral) in Bangor, Wales, 15th century (Hic liber pertinet ad ecclesie sancti dainellio, f. 193v).
Formerly owned in the 17th or 18th century by Hugh Roberts (signature dated 1672, f. 89r; partial signature, f. 193r); Charles Hurleston (partial signature, f. 12v; signature, f. 158v-159r; related family note "John Hurleston, Not his Booke, 1690," f. 36v); and Thomon Simon Jones (signature, f. 158v) or Simon Jones (signature, f. 168r).
Sold by bookseller Thomas Kerslake (Bristol) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, no. 20547, 1858 (Phillipps note, f. ii recto).
Sold at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London) in Part 7 of the sale of manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 20 March 1895, lot 106, to bookseller James and Mary Lee Tregaskis (London).
Purchased by Henry Charles Lea, 1896 (signature, f, ii recto).
Acquired by the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.

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. 153 (Ms. Lea 23).
Listed in De Ricci, Seymour. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, v. 2, p. 2107, no. 3.
Listed in Répertoire bio-bibliographique des auteurs latins, patristiques et médiévaux [microform]; Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS) ([Paris]: Chadwick-Healey France, 1987), fiche 276.

Publications about:

Peter T. Collins and Ruth J. Dean. "St. Deiniol Cathedral's Manuscript of John de Burgh's Pupilla oculi." In The Library Chronicle 93.1 (Spring 1978), 193-195.
Izbicki, Thomas M. "Saint Geneviève and the Anointing of the Sick." The Catholic Historical Review 104, no. 3 (Summer 2018), pp. 393–414, at 396n12.

Cited as:

John Borough, Pupilla oculi (Ms. Codex 75). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Roberts, Hugh, 17th century, former owner.
Hurleston, Charles, former owner.
Jones, Thomon Simon, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

155963034

Web link:

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