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Title

Decretales abbreviate

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275, compiler
• Ereilter, S, former owner
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner
• Gross Sankt Martin (Church : Cologne, Germany), former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 280
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949533433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706137538
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4953343

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1250 and 1299

Place

France

Summary

An abbreviated version of the decretals compiled by Raymond of Peñafort in the 1230s by order of Pope Gregory IX. Thomas Izbicki has identified an additional selection from Innocent III from the Liber sextus decretalium (IV 1.6.1) included before the closing rubric (f. 147r). Table of contents entries for the chapters and chapter numbers added in the margins in a 14th-century hand. Mnemonic verses indicating the contents of the manuscript and three lines of a hymn to Saints John, Peter, and Lawrence are written inside the upper cover in a 15th-century hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from explicit (f. 147r).
   

Extent

147 leaves : 208 x 148 (103 x 81) mm. bound to 210 x 162 mm

Foliation

Parchment, 147; [1-147]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. 12 bifolia are missing with loss of text (4, 3, 3, and 2 bifolia following f. 11, 28, 126, and 145 respectively) in Book 1, the beginning of Book 2, and Book 5; the modern foliation does not account for the missing leaves.

Support

Parchment

Binding

15th-century sheepskin over wooden boards; blind ruling and stamped heraldic eagles and flowers visible on lower cover; upper cover and edges smoke-damaged; metal clasp; chain, probably 17th-century, of 7 hourglass-shaped links attached to decorative boss at head of lower cover.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 25 lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Historiated initial with a portrait of Gregory IX (f. 4r); large illuminated initials in blue, pink, and gold at beginning of table of contents and Books 3-5 (f. 1r, 61r, 96v, 111r); initials at beginning of chapters alternate between red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; red or blue capital L and red and blue roman numerals in upper margins indicating book divisions; small initials throughout alternate between blue and red; rubrics in red.

Script

Written in an early Gothic book hand.

Provenance

• Formerly held in the library of Saint Martin Major, Cologne (inscription, f. 6v gutter), 17th and 18th centuries.
   
• Purchased by S. Ereilter (?) in Cologne, August 1843 (pencil inscription, f. 147v).
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Nov. 1998.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
   

Subjects topical

• Canon law--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Abridgements
• Decretals
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 13th century
• Legal
• Pontifical
• Christian
• French
• France

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Table of contents

• Inside front cover — Mnemonic verses (15th-century hand), Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Table of contents, f. 1r
• fol. 4r — Liber I, De summa Trinitate et fide catholica, f. 4r
• fol. 29r — Liber II, De iudiciis, f. 29r
• fol. 61r — Liber III, De vita et honestate clericorum, f. 61r
• fol. 96v — Liber IV, De sponsalibus et matrimoniis, f. 96v
• fol. 111r — Liber V, De accusationibus, inquisitionibus, denunciationibus, f. 111r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 1r
• fol. 4r — Historiated initial, Initial G, Gregory IX, f. 4r
• fol. 6v — Owner note, f. 6v
• fol. 61r — Illuminated initial, Initial U, f. 61r
• fol. 96v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 96v
• fol. 111r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 111r
• fol. 147v — Owner note, f. 147v