Ms. codex. Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 8r); spine title: Forme romane curie. First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 8r) In litteris indulgentie videlicet, quoniam ut ait apostolus, et similium super ponatur de questionariis ... (f. 79r) et de dampnis et iniuriis eisdem irrogant[?] satisfaciant competenter monitione premissa. Second work, incipit and explicit: (f. 80v) Abbati cavensi. Cum monasterii vestri veneranda religio virtutum debeat candore nitere convenit ... (f. 104r) Presumptores predictos ad examen eiusdem archiepiscopi remittatis. Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 104 + i (modern paper); 14(-1), 26, 36(-1), 4-76, 87, 96; first work (f. 8-79) with contemporary foliation (added by the rubricator, following indications made by the scribe), 1-73 in red Roman numerals, upper center (each verso has the same number as the following recto, i.e. facing pages are given the same number); modern foliation in pencil, upper... Layout: Written in 2 columns of 50 lines; prickings visible. Script: Written in an Italian Gothic textualis script. Decoration: Red and blue initials throughout, some with filigree; small blue and red drawing of a face (f. 79r); rubrication in red. Binding: 19th- or early 20th-century three-quarter calf with marbled paper, over cardboard. Paper endleaf is loose, leather of cover wearing around the edges; leather almost completely split and separated along both front and back hinges; cover boards becoming loose at hinges; spine is starting to crumble and split. Origin: Written in Italy, in the late 13th or early 14th century. Zacour-Hirsch suggests ca. 1290. Two leaves have been cut out between f. 7-8, and between f. 28-29. Purchased by Albert Cohn (book dealer, Berlin) in Italy, 1889 (according to Lea in A formulary of the papal penitentiary ..., p. xxxvii); the catalog clipping pasted in the manuscript, no. 957, is likely from a Cohn catalog in 1891 (flyleaf 2 recto, with pencil note of date below). Purchased by Henry Charles Lea in 1892 (Lea signature dated 1892, flyleaf 2 recto; bookplate, inside upper cover). Bequest of Henry Charles Lea to the University of Pennsylvania, 1909.
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