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Title

Compendium of legal texts

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Oversize LJS 450
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949544933503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706718961
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4954493

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy, ca. 1450-1499

Summary

Collection of treatises on civil law, including both Roman law and canon law, compiled in Italy. Angelo degli Ubaldi, Baldo degli Ubaldi, Giovanni d'Andrea, Jacobus de Arena, and Martino da Fano are all represented by multiple treatises, with other authors also present. A number of works by Bartolo of Sassoferrato in the last third of the manuscript include his Tractatus de Guelfis et Ghibellinis (f. 224v-226v) and his Tractatus Tiberiadis (f. 293r-322r), which contains numerous diagrams. Marginal annotations and manicules by various contemporary and later hands. Final bifolia with table of contents preserved separately and stored with manuscript. Two 12th-century parchment bifolia used as pastedowns also removed and preserved separately and stored with the manuscript; from an Italian antiphonal probably made in central Italy, they contain chants for Easter and its octave, with text in protogothic script and notation in Beneventan neumes on 3-line staves ruled in metalpoint with the line above the text traced in red.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; title written in ink on lower page edges reads in part Tract[atus] diversor[um] ... manu prop[ria] conscripti.
   

Extent

331 leaves : 308 x 212 (206 x 108) mm. bound to 311 x 225 mm

Collation

Paper, 331; 1-4¹⁰ 5¹² 6-7¹⁰ 8¹² 9-26¹⁰ 27⁸ 28-32¹⁰ 33¹⁰ (-10); [1-6], 7-327, [328-331]; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper right recto, very faded at beginning and end of manuscript. Catchwords lower center on final versos of gatherings.

Support

Paper

Binding

Wooden boards (split lengthwise along wormholes) on three leather bands, remains of leather on spine and inside covers. 12th-century parchment bifolia used as pastedowns, now removed and preserved separately and stored with the manuscripts.

Layout

Written in 40-55 long lines; verticals folded.

Decoration

Diagrams of consanguinity (f. 103v) and affinity (f. 105r) in brown and red, added later; 39 diagrams in the Tractatus Tiberiadis, many including the Tiber, in red, brown, blue, and yellow ink (f. 298v-304v, 305v, 310v-316r, 317v); rubrics and paragraph marks in red; occasional manicules. 12th-century pastedowns have initials in red and one large initial in red with infill of scrolling red stems on blue.

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Christie's, 4 June 2003, lot 16, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
   

Subjects topical

• Civil law--Italy
• Guelfs and Ghibellines
• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Diagrams
• Gregorian chant
• Manuscripts, Latin--12th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 12th century
• 15th century
• Diagrams
• Song book
• Liturgy
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Decorations

• fol. 33r — Manicule, f. 33r
• fol. 33v — Manicule, f. 33v
• fol. 103v — Diagram, f. 103v
• fol. 105r — Diagram, f. 105r
• fol. 118v — Manicule, f. 118v
• fol. 138v — Manicule, f. 138v
• fol. 189r — Manicule, f. 189r
• fol. 216v — Manicule, f. 216v
• fol. 231r — Manicule, f. 231r
• fol. 233r — Manicule, f. 233r
• fol. 264v — Manicule, f. 264v
• fol. 266r — Manicule, f. 266r
• fol. 275r — Manicule, f. 275r
• fol. 276r — Manicule, f. 276r
• fol. 278r — Manicule, f. 278r
• fol. 283v — Manicule, f. 283v
• fol. 298v — Diagram, f. 298v
• fol. 299r — Diagram, f. 299r
• fol. 299v — Diagram, f. 299v
• fol. 300r — Diagram, f. 300r
• fol. 300v — Diagram, f. 300v
• fol. 301r — Diagram, f. 301r
• fol. 301v — Diagram, f. 301v
• fol. 302r — Diagram, f. 302r
• fol. 302v — Diagram, f. 302v
• fol. 303r — Diagram, f. 303r
• fol. 303v — Diagram, f. 303v
• fol. 304r — Diagram, f. 304r
• fol. 304v — Diagram, f. 304v
• fol. 305v — Diagram, f. 305v
• fol. 308v — Manicule, f. 308v
• fol. 310v — Diagram, f. 310v
• fol. 311r — Diagram, f. 311r
• fol. 311v — Diagram, f. 311v
• fol. 312r — Diagram, f. 312r
• fol. 312v — Diagram, f. 312v
• fol. 313r — Diagram, f. 313r
• fol. 313v — Diagram, f. 313v
• fol. 314r — Diagram, f. 314r
• fol. 314v — Diagram, f. 314v
• fol. 315r — Diagram, f. 315r
• fol. 315v — Diagram, f. 315v
• fol. 316r — Diagram, f. 316r
• fol. 317v — Diagram, f. 317v