Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Compendium iuris canonici

Authors

• Braco, Petrus de, d. ca. 1352

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1222
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943245973503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233573405
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4324597

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Germany

Summary

An alphabetical collection of terms for the consultation of legal texts and commentaries, also known as Repertorium iuris canonici. The last three leaves contain de Braco's poem Repudium ambitionis contra miseros cardinalium servitores. The poem is an address in verse to Ambition, whom de Braco supplies with a large variety of negative qualities. Within this diatribe, de Braco focuses the brunt of his attack upon the Papal court, especially the cardinals, who in the poem use ambition to control de Braco and his colleagues. Throughout the poem, de Braco makes frequent use of quotes from the 12th-century lawyer Gratian. The poem culminates with de Braco divorcing Ambition through the legal codes of the canon law, the Old Testament, the New Testament, and Roman civil law.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from preface (f. 2r).
   
• Incipit: Quoniam inter cetera dampna que suis posteris intulit prothoplaustorum transgressio non minimum fuit oblivio... (f. 2r). Explicit: In cuius amplitudine, non in graduum sublimitate, queritur regnum dei extra de tempo. or. ad aures (f. 350v).
   

Watermark

Hand-like figure (f. 3-312); horn hanging from string (f. 312-350); Briquet, Deux Clefs 3864 (Gex, 1415) (f. 1).

Extent

349 leaves : 420 x 275 (320 x 190) mm. bound to 425 x 285 mm

Foliation

Paper and parchment, i + 349 + i; [1-266, 268-350]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper and parchment

Binding

Repaired tooled calf over wooden boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 2 columns of about 66 lines.

Decoration

Large initial Q (f. 2r), decorated in blue, green, and red inks with burnished gold; leaf and vine motifs curl around the page, with a shield at the bottom center, also colored in red, blue, and green with dots of gold and silver; 2-line initials of each glossary entry alternate between blue and red; rubricated throughout.

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script.

Provenance

• Part of deed of Johannes Zomernaet to the Carthusian monastery, Marie Castri (Marienburg(?), which according to Cottineau II, 1751 was an Augustinian monastery), 1493 (Zacour-Hirsch).
   

Subjects topical

• Canon law--Early works to 1800
• Papacy--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Glossaries
• Poems
• Polemics
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Document
• Paper
• Legal
• Christian
• Glossary
• German
• Germany

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1222: Compendium iuris canonici are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is © and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

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

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Illuminated border, f. 2r
• fol. 4r — Manicule, f. 4r
• fol. 14r — Manicule, f. 14r
• fol. 60r — Manicule, f. 60r
• fol. 82r — Manicule, f. 82r
• fol. 131r — Manicule, f. 131r
• fol. 145r — Manicule, f. 145r
• fol. 155v — Manicule, f. 155v
• fol. 216r — Manicule, f. 216r
• fol. 225v — Manicule, f. 225v
• fol. 237r — Manicule, f. 237r
• fol. 263v — Manicule, f. 263v