University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 723

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DS ID:

DS1625

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 723

Title:

Panormia.

Author:

Ivo, Saint, Bishop of Chartres, approximately 1040-1116

Ivo of Chartres WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[11--]

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 258 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 279 x 199 (198 x 103) mm bound to 293 x 208 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Saint-Gatien (Cathedral : Tours, France)

Tours Cathedral WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: Written in 26 long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.
The text is not entirely complete, ending after what is marked as Chapter CXXXVI in Patrologia latina.
Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Incipit prologus super exceptiones decretorum sanctorum pontificum. Exceptiones ecclesiasticarum regularum partim ex epistolis romanorum pontificum... (f. 3r).
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in transitional script (or protogothic script) by a single hand.
Decoration: Rubricated in red, blue, and green, with decorated initials; large illuminated initial with an amusing grotesque figure, in red, blue, and green (f. 204v); illustrated with a biblical canon in columns decorated with borders and ornaments in red and blue (f. 56v-57r); incomplete diagram of affinity (f. 226r).
Binding: Modern quarter vellum over wooden boards; vellum split at front hinge, upper cover and spine nearly detached.
Origin: Written in France, 12th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit, text: Incipiunt decreta sanctorum pontificum. De fide sanctae trinitatis. Credimus unum deum esse patrem & filium & sanctumque spiritum (f. 16r).
Collation: Parchment, i (modern paper) + 258 + i (modern paper); 1², 2-32⁸; [1-258]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Earlier foliation (not contemporary with text) in ink begins with 1 at the start of the text (f. 16r), misnumbered and crossed out; ink foliation ends with 242-245 preceding 238-241, which suggests that in an earlier binding the final gathering was arranged...
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 7408, purchased in Paris in 1838.
Sold by Laurence C. Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1956.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 17 July 1950, lot 26.
Formerly in the library of the cathedral of Sant-Gatien (Tours, France; Ms. 193, inscription bottom center f. 1r), as recorded in a catalog printed in 1706 (Delisle).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

Ecclesiastical law

Sacraments

Early works

Canon law

France

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875423503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3f18sj9f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania