Bryn Mawr College, MS 7

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16510

Shelfmark:

MS 7

Title:

Constitutiones clementinae

Clementine Constitutions

Author:

Got, Bertrand de c. 1260-1314

Clement V WIKIDATA

Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348

Giovanni d'Andrea WIKIDATA

Place:

Avignon?, Southern France

Avignon TGN

Southern France TGN

Date:

1340-1360

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+59+ii; 413 x 274 mm bound to 430 x 292 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Viviens, Johannes

Johannes Vivianus WIKIDATA

Osborne, Thomas, -1767

Thomas Osborne WIKIDATA

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930

Wilfrid Voynich WIKIDATA

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

Note:

Numerous annotations in the margins in contemporary hands
Text glossed by two contemporary hands
Binding restored by J. MacDonald Co., East Norwalk, Conn.
Lower corner of fol. 11 has been cut away with some loss of text.
Binding: English scored Russian leather with fine gold-tooled border, circa 1750; title stamped on spine in gold: "O. P. Clement/ V. MSS."
Layout: Main text and commentary in two columns, a maximum of thirty-five lines of text and eighty-eight lines of commentary, single vertical and horizontal bounding lines full across, ruled in hard point and ink, prickings in upper and lower margins; written area (inclusive of both columns of secondary text): 345 x 227 mm
Script: Gothic--rotunda
Decoration: One eighteen-line miniature, showing an enthroned pope (Clement) holding a closed book, symmetrically flanked by groups of cardinals and bishops and, kneeling before him, a bare-headed cleric presenting a book; Coat of arms, bendy of six azure and argent with a T in the second; two eight-line initials on a gold ground; numerous six- to three-line pink or blue initials with white...
Related resource: 1752 - Osborne, Thomas, -1767 - T Osborne's catalogue of books, of several very considerable libraries for the year 1752, lot 2706
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1678, no. 12; p. 207, no. 48.
Related resource: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 224-26, no. 78.
Related resource: Bilotta, Maria Alessandra, "Coesistenza e cooperazione nel Sud della Francia fra XIII e XIV sec.: il caso di alcuni manoscritti giuridici miniati ad Avignone," in Coexistence and Cooperation in the middle ages, IV European Congress of Medieval Studies F.I.D.E.M., ed. Alessandro Musco and Giuliana Musotto (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2014), pp. 230-31 (article pp...
Provenance: Arms at bottom of fol. 1r (bendy of six azure and argent with a T in the second), possibly of the Bishop of Toulouse; ownership note on fol. 43r in a later hand: "Johannes Vivens licentiatus in iure"; listed in Thomas Osborne's catalog for 1752, no. 2706 (autograph catalogue entry glued to front flyleaf); unidentified English catalogue entry on inside front cover; note in pencil on...

Keyword:

France

Fourteenth century

Law

Theology

treatises

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS07.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS7/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College