University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 180

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1446

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 180

Title:

Agreement pertaining to the rents and privileges of the Canons Regular of Urgel.

Author:

Canons Regular of Urgel

Canons Regular of Urgel WIKIDATA

Place:

Bescaran

Date:

1415.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Catalan, with prologue in Latin

Catalan WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 12 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 224 x 152 (155 x 103) mm bound to 234 x 154 mm

Note:

Notarial colophon (f. 11v): Bernardus consulis vocatur, qui scripsit a domino benedicatur. Zacour-Hirsch and Bernard Rosenthal's description regard this Bernardus as the same person as the Petrus Bertrandi mentioned in the prologue. This is likely but is by no means certain.
Description clipped from unidentified dealers catalog, in Latin and French, pasted inside front cover. Typewritten description by Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. on file in the Library.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: Notum sit cunctis quod ...
Caption in later hand (f. 1r): Bescaran.
According to the Latin prologue (f. 1r), the document was drawn up and written by the notary and rector Petrus Bertrandi of Bescaran (spelled "Besqueran" in the prologue). In the prologue, Petrus refers to himself in the first person. The prologue gives the names of the two representatives of Urgel as Jacobus Fabre and Petrus de Artedo (f. 1r).
Ms. codex.
Paragraphs numbered in the margin with roman numerals. Marginal gloss on f. 2r.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 12 + i (modern paper); 1-6, [7-12]; contemporary foliation in red ink, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive notarial hand, except for Latin prologue in a rather formal, large Gothic hand.
Decoration: Two red figurated initials (f. 4v); extensive use of red for initials, paragraph marks and colophon.
Binding: Modern vellum.
Origin: Written in Bescaran, 2 September 1415 (prologue, f. 1r).
Cover boards slightly warped. One parchment leaf has a very uneven edge, a couple others have holes. Many stains.
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., New York, 1961[?].

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Catalan

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Spanish

codices (bound manuscripts)

notarial documents

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Spain--Seo de Urgel

Privileges and immunities

Fabre, Jacobus

Catholic Church

Spain--Catalonia

Artedo, Petrus de

Monasticism and religious orders

Clergy

Religious life

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915517723503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3bn79/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania