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Title

Libellus super electionibus faciendis et earum processibus ordinandis

Authors

• Guillaume, de Mandagot, d. 1321

Other related names

• Barnston, H. Charles, former owner
• Daubeney, Amelia, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 103
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915804453503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903161
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580445

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1375 and 1425

Place

France

Summary

Work dealing with a section of canon law. Also contains some details relating to the church at Toulouse, where the author was provost for a time.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from rubric (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Venerabili viro discretione ... (f. 38v) in eodem contulit sua ineffabili pietate sit benedictio et claritas sapiencia et graciarum actio honor virtus et potestas et fortitudo in saecula saeculorum amen. Explicit libellus electionis.
   
• Text is the same as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 729.
   
• This work was first printed in 1509 and again in 1523, but copies are seldom seen. No manuscript is cited by de Ricci in his Census of Medieval Mss. in the U.S.A.
   

Extent

40 leaves : 179 x 129 (123 x 93) mm. bound to 185 x 132 mm

Collation

Parchment, 40 + i (18th-century paper); 1-5⁸; [1-40]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords in lower center margin, last verso of each quire.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century French half calf, with marbled paper, spine with gilt floral stamps.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.

Decoration

Rubricated, with 2-line and 3-line red initials throughout; several manicules (f. 4r, 7r, 7v, 8v).

Script

Written in a Gothic book script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by H. Charles Barnston & Amelia Daubeney (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• "Cat. L. 8 [i.e., 8 pounds] at Dr. Neligan's sale in 1867" written on inside upper cover.
   
• Acquired, 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Canon law--Early works to 1800
• Elections--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Christian
• France
• Legal
• French

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• Inside front cover — Seller's description, Inside front cover
• fol. 4r — Manicule, f. 4r
• fol. 7r — Manicule, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
• fol. 8v — Manicule, f. 8v