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Title

Miscellany of works on Catholic doctrine, canon law and religious life

Other related names

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

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 78
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915806223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122647538
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580622

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1450

Place

Germany

Summary

Contains six works generally concerned with Catholic doctrine, canon law and religious life, including a register of Peter Lombard's four books of Sentences, together with an index to St. Augustine's City of God and other notes. Also includes works by Nikolaus Jauer, Bartholomaeus de Ebraco and Caspar de Caldrinis, as well as two unattributed works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger. Zacour-Hirsch and Andrew Little give the title: Registrum primi [-quarti] libri sententiarum.
   
• Spine label gives Nikolaus Jauer as the main heading for the entire manuscript.
   
• Colophon (f. 63v, 154v, 174r): Jo. Deo gratias alt.
   
• Folio 13 is loose.
   
• There is evidence of slight water damage.
   

Watermark

Similar to Piccard V. vii. 429 (1470).

Extent

179 leaves : 294 x 220 (170 x 93) mm. bound to 297 x 228 mm

Collation

Paper, 179; 1-2⁶, 3⁵, 4-14⁶, 15⁶(+1); [1-179]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Some catchwords visible, lower right verso of last leaf of each quire.

Signatures

Arabic numerals, lower left corner, first recto of each quire.

Support

Paper

Binding

15th-century German blind stamped brown calf over pasteboards, badly abraded, with cut marks on upper and lower covers.

Decoration

Rubricated capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and underlining throughout.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive book script by many hands, with marginal comments in several contemporary hands.

Colophon

Colophon (f. 63v, 154v, 174r): Jo. Deo gratias alt.

Provenance

• Contains an old, unidentified shelf mark, E18 (f. 1r); purchased by Henry Charles Lea, 1877.
   
• Passed to the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Catholic Church--Doctrines
• Canonists--Early works to 1800
• Christian life--Early works to 1800
• Devotional exercises
• Indulgences (Canon law)

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Germany
• Paper
• Christian
• Devotion
• German
• Treatise

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Register of the four books of Peter Lombard?s Sentences, f. 1r
• fol. 23r — Index to St. Augustine?s City of God and other notes, f. 23r
• fol. 35r — Tractatus de superstitionibus, f. 35r
• fol. 64v — Lecturae super firmiter credimus, f. 64v
• fol. 155r — Tractatus de indulgentiis, f. 155r
• fol. 174r — Prohibitio de proprietate tenenda, f. 174r
• fol. 176v — De horis canonicis, f. 176v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Owner signature, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 64v — Decorated letter, Letter D, f. 64v
• fol. 65v — Manicule, f. 65v
• fol. 66v — Manicule, f. 66v
• fol. 70r — Manicule, f. 70r
• fol. 95v — Manicule, f. 95v
• fol. 99v — Manicule, f. 99v
• fol. 115v — Manicule, f. 115v
• fol. 119r — Manicule, f. 119r
• fol. 122r — Manicule, f. 122r
• fol. 122v — Manicule, f. 122v
• fol. 124v — Manicule, f. 124v
• fol. 131v — Manicule, f. 131v
• fol. 132r — Manicule, f. 132r
• fol. 132v — Manicule, f. 132v
• fol. 142r — Manicule, f. 142r
• fol. 146r — Manicule, f. 146r
• fol. 155r — Manicule, f. 155r
• fol. 156r — Manicule, f. 156r
• fol. 156v — Manicule, f. 156v
• fol. 158r — Manicule, f. 158r
• fol. 159v — Manicule, f. 159v
• fol. 160r — Manicule, f. 160r
• fol. 163r — Manicule, f. 163r
• fol. 171r — Manicule, f. 171r
• fol. 171v — Manicule, f. 171v
• fol. 179r — Manicule, f. 179r