Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Lectura super quintum librum Decretalium (Commentary on the Fifth Book of Decretals)

Authors

• Niccolò, de' Tudeschi, 1386-1445 (https://viaf.org/viaf/32108367)

Other related names

• Johem Spiess, former owner
• Theodorico de Buckinstorff, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 163
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 161

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This paper manuscript contains Niccolò de Tudeschi's commentary on the fifth book of the Decretals of Gregory IX, which deals with the Inquisition. The Lodi watermark suggests a date in the 1450s. Early ownership notes record that the book was bought in 1458 by Theodorico de Buckinstorff, who graduated from the University of Leipzig in 1439 as a doctor of both canon and civil law, and then by Johem Speiss of Rotenburg in 1477. The text has minimal embellishment, with initials and paragraph marks in red. However, the codex retains its original fifteenth-century binding which comprises brown pigskin scored with a lattice pattern over oak boards. There are fragmentary remains of clasps. A contemporary title is written on the bottom edge, and again on a parchment pastedown on the front cover.

Notes

• Contemporary inscription in ink on the bottom edge: "Nicolaus de sicilia super quinto"
   
• Inscription inside front cover: "Lectura Nicolas de Cecilia monachi super quinto decretalium", the same as that on the titulus on the front cover
   

Watermark

Watermark of a seven-petalled flower, in use at Lodi c. 1450 (Briquet 6556)

Extent

179; 400 x 285 mm bound to 407 x 292 mm

Foliation

Foliation in pencil, upper right recto; early foliation in ink, incomplete, upper right recto

Collation

1-14 (12), 15 (11, +1)

Signatures

Quire signatures in Roman numerals on fols. 120v, 132v, 144v

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords every twelve folios from 12v-168v, some partially trimmed

Binding

Contemporary binding; oak boards and brown pigskin scored with a lattice pattern; parchment titulus inscribed "Lectura Nicolas de Cecilia monachi super quinto decretalium"; clasps missing; in a modern blue clamshell box

Layout

Two columns of fifty-six lines; ruled in ink; pricking visible; running headings, upper right recto; evidence of trimming; written area: 292 x 192 mm

Decoration

Colored initials of various sizes throughout

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Colophon

"Et sic est finis huius operis editi per famosissimus virtuisque vir doctore N. de Secilia monachi actu ordinarie legente in studio senensi. Deo gracias." [fol. 180v]

Provenance

• Bought in 1458 by Theodorico de Buckinstorff, who was awarded a doctorate in both laws from the University of Leipzig in 1439 (see ownership note, fol. 178v; "Anno domini 1458 in estate comperavit lectorum istam theodoricus de buckinstorff..."); bought by Johanem Spiess of Rothenburg in 1477 (see ownsership note inside front cover; "Comperatus per M. Johannem Spiess de Rotenburga Anno domini 1477"); Middle Hill library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 1146 (sold in 1898); John Frederick Lewis, given by his widow Anne Baker Lewis to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• Wolf, Edwin II, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: 1937), no. 163 (pp. 177-178).

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Colophon
• Manicules
• Original binding
• Paper
• Germany

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Niccolò, de' Tudeschi, Lectura super quintum librum Decretalium; incipit: Incipit liber quintus de Accu denuncciatione et inquisitione [fol. 1r]; explicit: …per ducat qui sine fine vivit et regnat. [fol. 178v]

Decorations

• Front cover — Contemporary parchment pastedown
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, John Frederick Lewis
• Inside front cover — Print catalog entry
• Inside front cover — Notations in ink
• Inside front cover — Manicule
• fol. 1r — Large red initial I
• fol. 1r — Ownership stamp, Sir Thomas Phillipps
• Inside back cover — Print catalog clipping