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Title

Canon law miscellany

Authors

• Catholic Church
• Gratian, 12th cent
• Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565
• Boniface VIII, Pope, d. 1303

Call number

Ms. Codex 691
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874803503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212055335
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487480

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1550

Place

Italy

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Inscription (flyleaf i recto): Caesar Strada Apostolicarum literarum scriptor excellentissimus. Comes palatinus magnificus Nobilissima Stradorum familia legitime ortus. Eius gloria est splendor ac patrie seculique sui decus perhenne hic.
   
• Inscription (f. 158r): Universis et singulis presentes literas inspecturis Bonifacius de Almancir maior Cardinalis atque penitentiarius alme Ecclesie compostelano salutem in Domino sempiternam. Cum itaque sicut accepimus devotus in Christo Dominus Caesar Ludovicus Stradinus sacerdos et peregrinus confessus et absolutus fuit atque dominicum corpus in predicta Ecclesia recepit et pluries celebravit. In eiusdem testimonium has nostras prefactas literas nomine et signe nostris solitis et consuetis roboratas et munitas eidem concessimus. Datur Compostelle die septimo mensis Junii anno milesimo quingentesimo trigesimo quarto. Bonifacius Cardinalis Maior.
   

Extent

158 leaves : 139 x 99 (84 x 60) mm. bound to 141 x 100 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i + 158 + iii (16th-century[?] paper); [i], 7-176, [i]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto (partially or completely trimmed away); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folios 52-56, 138-140, 146 are blank.

Support

Parchment

Binding

16th-century vellum.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines; ruled in lead and ink.

Script

Written in a humanistic script by a single hand, except inscriptions (flyleaf [i] recto and f. 158r-v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ceasare Luigi Strada (inscription, flyleaf i recto); Libreria dè Cappuchini de Ferrara (inscription, flyleaf [i] verso).
   
• Purchased, 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Canon law--Early works to 1800
• Ecclesiastical law--Early works to 1800
• Roman law--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Legal
• Theology

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Decretum, f. 1r
• fol. 141r — Liber sextus; de regulis iuris, f. 141r
• fol. 147r — Codex Justiniani, f. 147r