Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 206

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS539

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 206

Title:

Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium
Glossed Canon Law

Author:

Innocent IV

Innocent IV WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

s. XIV(in); 1300-1315

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Figurative details, One leaf: 10-line illuminated initial in colors and burnished gold, 18-line columnwidth miniature on recto, showing a bishop joining the hands of a man and a woman in marriage (the woman apparently reluctantly), each attended by witnesses of their own sex.
Other decoration, One leaf: Heading in red, paragraph marks and running-titles in alternating red and blue; 2-line initials in alternating red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork.
Script, One leaf: Gothic Textura.
Layout, One leaf: 2 columns, ruled in plummet, each column 311 mm. by 87 mm. with 16 mm. between columns.

Former Owner(s):

C. L. Ricketts, bought from Maggs, 1930 (according to a pencil note; de Ricci says 1932); acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

C. L. Ricketts, bought from Maggs, 1930 (according to a pencil note; de Ricci says 1932); acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Associated Agent(s):

Sinibaldi Fieschi

Sinibaldi Fieschi WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 649.
One leaf: The leaf shows a style of script and illumination which is partly French, partly Italian. The lozenges in the backgrounds include multiple repetitions of the French fleur-de-lys. Gold is burnished to a mirror finish. The manuscript is probably southern French. Comparable texts of canon law were illuminated in Parisian style in Toulouse (cf. Avril 1998, p. 334, no. 233; L’Engle and...
One leaf: Latin.
One leaf: The margins are extensively glossed by a medieval reader, employing a repertoire of signes-de-renvoi to link the annotations to the text.
Explicit, One leaf: De francia quidam. . . propositum gerens in mente.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ricketts206_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts206_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington