Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Forme romane curie super beneficiis et questionibus... etc.

Authors

• Catholic Church
• Thomas, de Capua, Cardinal, d. 1243

Other related names

• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 64
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914739383503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903451
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1473938

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1250 and 1350

Place

Italy

Summary

Papal formulary (f. 8-79r), with a register (f. 1r-7v). Also contains the text of another formulary, Forme romane curie ... super casibus penitentie, of Thomas of Capua (f. 80v-104r), with a register (f. 79v-80v). The author is identified in the caption of the second formulary (f. 80v).

Notes

• Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 8r). Spine title: Forme Romane Curie.
   
• First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 8r) In litteris indulgentie videlicet ... (f. 79r) et de dampnis et iniuriis eisdem irrogatis satis. compare [?]. modo [?]. per.
   
• Second work, incipit and explicit: (f. 80v) Abbati cavensi. Cum monasterii vestri veneranda ... (f. 104r) Presumptores predictos ad examen eiusdem archiepiscopi remittatis.
   
• Two leaves have been cut out between f. 7-8, and between f. 28-29.
   
• An unidentified dealer's description in French is pasted onto the front flyleaf.
   

Extent

104 leaves : 217 x 152 (156 x 109) mm. bound to 228 x 156 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 104 + i (modern paper); 1⁴(-1), 2⁶, 3⁶(-1), 4-7⁶, 8⁷, 9⁶; i-civ; contemporary red roman numerals (added by the rubricator, following indications made by the scribe), upper center (each verso has the same number as the following recto, i.e. facing pages are given the same number); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords lower center, last verso of each quire.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th- or early 20th-century three-quarter calf with marbled paper, over cardboard, possibly French. Paper endleaf is loose, leather of cover wearing around the edges; leather almost completely split and separated along both front and back hinges; cover boards becoming loose at hinges; spine is starting to crumble and split.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 50 lines; prickings visible.

Decoration

Red and blue initials throughout, some with filigree; small blue and red drawing of a face (f. 79r).

Script

Written in an Italian Gothic book script.

Provenance

• Purchased by Albert Cohn (Berlin) in Italy, 1889; appears in his catalog 1891, no. 957.
   
• Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover; signature, dated 1892, front flyleaf recto).
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church.--Curia Romana
• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Confession--Early works to 1800
• Penance--Early works to 1800
• Formularies (Diplomatics)--Early works to 1800
• Penitentials--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Penitentials
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century

Keywords

• Register
• 13th century
• 14th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Christian

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Register, f. 1r
• fol. 8r — Papal formulary, f. 8r
• fol. 79v — Register, f. 79v
• fol. 80v — Formulary (Thomas of Capua), f. 80v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 8r — Penwork initial, Initial I, f. 8r
• fol. 79r — Penwork initial, Initial Q, Face, f. 79r