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

Title

Manuscript of an evangelist and prebendary of the minor orders

Authors

• Franciscans (http://viaf.org/viaf/147415964)

Other related names

• Christ, Victor, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 253
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy?

Summary

This manuscript is a late fourteenth-century compilation of Franciscan documents, including a provincial constitution of 1359, the form of the vow taken by a man joining the order, and eleven of the twelve statutes adopted by the General Chapter of Assisi in 1354, with the very end of the eleventh and the twelfth missing. The manuscript is written by multiple hands and has occasional marginal notes.

Notes

• The manuscript has been conserved and many of the leaves have been attached to supplied stubs
   
• Manuscript on paper except for the outer two bifolia of the first gathering (front flyleaf 3, fols. 1, 6, 7)
   
• Flyleaves of modern paper except for the third front flyleaf, which is parchment and the first leaf of the first gathering
   

Extent

Iii+55+ii; 193 x 130 mm bound to 195 x 140 mm

Foliation

Fols. 21-32 seem to be foliated 145-156, upper left verso; fols. 33-55 seem to be foliated 49-60, 73-83, upper left verso, without loss of text between 60 and 73

Collation

Structure uncertain

Support

Mixed

Catchwords

Lower margin in ink, [20v], [32v], [44v]

Binding

Twentieth-century binding, paper over boards

Layout

Written in one column of twenty-four to twenty-five lines; frame-ruled in ink with double horizontal bounding lines; prickings visible; written area: 135 x 90 mm

Decoration

Rubrication in red; two- and three-line initials in red

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Provenance

• Victor Christ Library; Purchased by the Free Library through the George S. Pepper Fund
   

Keywords

• Document
• 14th century
• Italian
• Gothic
• Italy
• Church Fathers
• Legal
• History

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2v — Marginal notation
• fol. 35r — Marginal notation