University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 280

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS602

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 280

Title:

Decretales abbreviate.

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[between 1250 and 1299]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 147 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 208 x 148 (103 x 81) mm bound to 210 x 162 mm

Former Owner(s):

Ereilter, S

S. Ereilter WIKIDATA

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Gross Sankt Martin (Church : Cologne, Germany)

Great St. Martin Church WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from explicit (f. 147r).
Origin: Written in France between 1250 and 1299.
Decoration: Historiated initial with a portrait of Gregory IX (f. 4r); large illuminated initials in blue, pink, and gold at beginning of table of contents and Books 3-5 (f. 1r, 61r, 96v, 111r); initials at beginning of chapters alternate between red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; red or blue capital L and red and blue roman numerals in upper margins indicating book divisions...
Binding: 15th-century sheepskin over wooden boards; blind ruling and stamped heraldic eagles and flowers visible on lower cover; upper cover and edges smoke-damaged; metal clasp; chain, probably 17th-century, of 7 hourglass-shaped links attached to decorative boss at head of lower cover.
Foliation: Parchment, 147; [1-147]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. 12 bifolia are missing with loss of text (4, 3, 3, and 2 bifolia following f. 11, 28, 126, and 145 respectively) in Book 1, the beginning of Book 2, and Book 5; the modern foliation does not account for the missing leaves.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 25 lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in an early Gothic book hand.
Ms. codex.
Formerly held in the library of Saint Martin Major, Cologne (inscription, f. 6v gutter), 17th and 18th centuries.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
Purchased by S. Ereilter (?) in Cologne, August 1843 (pencil inscription, f. 147v).
Sold by Sam Fogg to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 1998.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

abridgements

decretals

Early works to 1800

Canon law

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949533433503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3wm13v03/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania