University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 728

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DS ID:

DS1629

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 728

Title:

Commentary on the Clementines.

Author:

Gulielmus, de Monte Lauduno, active 1305-1343

William of Montlauzun WIKIDATA

Place:

France or Spain

France TGN

Date:

[between 1340 and 1360]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 52 leaves : parchment; 415 x 266 (331 x 210) mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); author attribution in upper margin of first leaf (f. 1r).
Origin: Written in southern France or Spain, possibly Aragon, in the mid-14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Ms. codex.
Incipit: Magnifice bonitatis mireque pietatis vira domino Johannii (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, 52; [1-52]; modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 80 lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Not bound, in 5 quires.
Decoration: 10-line red and blue puzzle initial with red and purple ornamentation (f. 1r); 2-line alternating red and blue initials with red or purple contrasting ornamentation; numerous manicules in different styles throughout.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script by a single hand, with many marginal notes in different hands.
Purchased, 1959.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

Catholic Church

Clementinae constitutiones (Catholic Church)

Early works

Canon law

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875693503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32z12p5v/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania