University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 729

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DS ID:

DS1630

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 729

Title:

Libellus super electionibus faciendis et earum ordinandis.

Author:

Mandagot, Guillaume de, -1321

Guillaume de Mandagout WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[between 1300 and 1325]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 24 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 406 x 265 (335 x 225) mm

Note:

Explicit: ...in eodem opere contulit sua ineffabili pietate sit benedictio et claritas sapientia et gratiarum actio honor virtus et fortitudo in secula seculorum, amen. Explicit libellus electionum editus a magistro Guillermo de Mandagote archidiacono Nemausis (f. 24r).
Parchment is brittle, cracking along outer edges of some leaves.
Title from rubric (f. 1r).
Incipit: Venerabili viro discretione scientia et moribus...
Ms. codex.
Collation: Parchment, 24; 2¹²; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 35-44 lines with commentary framing the main text.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script.
Same text as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 103.
Origin: Written in France, possibly Avignon, in the early 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Decoration: Historiated initial of the author Guillaume de Mandagot teaching, with drollery of rabbit playing bagpipes (f. 1r); rubricated in red and blue, with decorated initials with penwork ornamentation in red and blue, in both text and commentary.
Purchased, 1959.

Keyword:

commentaries

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Election law (Canon law)

Early works

Canon law

France--Toulouse

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875713503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p39240/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania