Details

Standardized Title:

Decretales Gregorii IX. Selections.

Subjects:

Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
Canon law.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Abridgements.
Decretals.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

An abbreviated version of the decretals compiled by Raymond of Peñafort in the 1230s by order of Pope Gregory IX. Thomas Izbicki has identified an additional selection from Innocent III from the Liber sextus decretalium (IV 1.6.1) included before the closing rubric (f. 147r). Table of contents entries for the chapters and chapter numbers added in the margins in a 14th-century hand. Mnemonic verses indicating the contents of the manuscript and three lines of a hymn to Saints John, Peter, and Lawrence are written inside the upper cover in a 15th-century hand.

Contents:

1. f.1r-3r: [Table of contents]
2. f.4r-28v: Liber I, De summa Trinitate et fide catholica
3. f.29r-61r: Liber II, De iudiciis
4. f.61r-96v: Liber III, De vita et honestate clericorum
5. f.96v-111r: Liber IV, De sponsalibus et matrimoniis
6. f.111r-147r: Liber V, De accusationibus, inquisitionibus, denunciationibus
7. f.147r: [Liber sextus decretalium IV 1.6.1]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from explicit (f. 147r).
Foliation: Parchment, 147; [1-147]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. 12 bifolia are missing with loss of text (4, 3, 3, and 2 bifolia following f. 11, 28, 126, and 145 respectively) in Book 1, the beginning of Book 2, and Book 5; the modern foliation does not account for the missing leaves.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 25 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in an early Gothic book hand.
Decoration: Historiated initial with a portrait of Gregory IX (f. 4r); large illuminated initials in blue, pink, and gold at beginning of table of contents and Books 3-5 (f. 1r, 61r, 96v, 111r); initials at beginning of chapters alternate between red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; red or blue capital L and red and blue roman numerals in upper margins indicating book divisions; small initials throughout alternate between blue and red; rubrics in red.
Binding: 15th-century sheepskin over wooden boards; blind ruling and stamped heraldic eagles and flowers visible on lower cover; upper cover and edges smoke-damaged; metal clasp; chain, probably 17th-century, of 7 hourglass-shaped links attached to decorative boss at head of lower cover.
Origin: Written in France between 1250 and 1299.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly held in the library of Saint Martin Major, Cologne (inscription, f. 6v gutter), 17th and 18th centuries.
Purchased by S. Ereilter (?) in Cologne, August 1843 (pencil inscription, f. 147v).
Sold by Sam Fogg to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 1998.
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. 148 (LJS 280).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 280

Contributor:

Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275, compiler.
Ereilter, S., former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Gross Sankt Martin (Church : Cologne, Germany), former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

706137803

Web link:

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