University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1059

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DS ID:

DS881

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1059

Title:

Decretales Gregorii IX.

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[between 1280 and 1299]

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 361 leaves : parchment ; 320 x 180 (main text 166 x 88, gloss up to 292 x 165) mm bound to 339 x 208 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Todd, James Henthorn, 1805-1869

James Henthorn Todd WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in France between 1280 and 1299 (Fogg).
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: 18th-century half calf, spine in six compartments is gilt tooled but very worn (Fogg).
Collation: Parchment, v + 355 + i; 1² 2-12¹² 13⁸ 14¹⁵ (+15) 15-18¹² 19¹⁴ 20¹² 21⁹ (+9) 22-30¹² 31²; f. iv-v are a later bifolio inserted in the middle of the bifolio forming f. 1-2.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand with the glossing script smaller and slightly less formal; annotations in a 14th-century English hand which also added cadels (as on f. 2-21, for example).
Layout: Main text written in two columns of 39 lines, surrounded by two columns of gloss of varying length.
Decoration: Four penwork title panels and five large flourished initials (f. 3, 88, 158, 241, 262, no penwork panel on f. 241) in red and blue at the opening of the five books; two diagrams in red and black concerning consanguinity and affinity (f. 261v, 262r); running heading of book number in alternate letters of red and blue, paragraph marks in red and blue, one-line initials in red or...
Printed label inside upper cover: A. H. Spencer Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia.
Sold by Sam Fogg (London), 2007.
The name Maistre Jacques Dubon (?) appears among notes in 15th- and 16th-century French on the added leaf at the end of the volume.
Sold in the collection of the Rev. James Henthorn Todd (1805-1869), Regius Professor of Hebrew and Librarian at Trinity College, Dublin, by John Fleming Jones, Dublin, 1869; purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps(1792-1872); Phillipps ms. 23022 (inside upper cover and f. 1).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

glosses (annotations)

decretals

Manuscripts, Medieval

commentaries

Canon law

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9941481103503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3319s70b/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania