New York University, Fragment 008 and Fragment 009

Metadata

DS ID:

DS348

Shelfmark:

Fragment 008 and Fragment 009

Title:

Decretum

Author:

Gratian

Gratian WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

s. XIV; 1300-1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Script, ff. 1-2v: Gothic book hand.
Layout, ff. 1-2v: 2 columns of 57 lines (but cropped at the bottom).

Former Owner(s):

This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.

Homer Lewis Bartlett WIKIDATA

by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346.
ff. 1-2v: Latin.
ff. 1-2v: The two "leaves" are attached to one another: 8 is the long narrow "leaf" with more casual writing, while 9 is the widere and longer "leaf" (in reality, it is a single leaf with very wide margins).
ff. 1-2v: The text begins in Casus 3, Dist. 21 (almost at the very beginning), and it ends in Anacletus, [ad Episcopos Italiae epist. II.] [ C. II.], Romana ecclesia a Christo primatum accepit.
Incipit, ff. 1-2v: qui etiam iubente domino in toto orbe dispersi euangelium predicaverunt. Ipsis quoque decedenti//.
Explicit, ff. 1-2v: [ne-]gotia, et supra monstratum est, terminantur. Ministri vero sacrorum canonum et decretorum pontificum sunt summi pontifices et infra presules atque reliqui sacerdotes.

Holding Institution:

New York University