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Title

Privileges for the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine

Authors

• Catholic Church
• Sixtus IV, Pope, 1414-1484
• Alexander IV, Pope, d. 1261
• Boniface VIII, Pope, d. 1303
• Sassoferrato, Marco Marzio
• Martin V, Pope, 1368-1431
• Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447
• Clement VI, Pope, ca. 1291-1352
• Innocent IV, Pope, ca. 1200-1254
• Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455
• Estouteville, Guillaume d', ca. 1412-1483
• Urban VI, Pope, 1318-1389

Call number

Ms. Codex 736
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212375563
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487587 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3xc52

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1475

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of papal letters and instruments regarding the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine of Rouen, with copies of documents by Clement VI, Innocent IV, Urban VI, Boniface VIII, Alexander IV, Martin V, Eugene IV, Nicholas V, and Sixtus IV. Includes a letter by the cardinal protector of the order, Guillaume de Estouteville; collection notarized by Marco Marzio Saxoferratensis (f. 29).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Incipit (f. 1r): Guilielmus miseratione divina episcopus ostiensis sacrosanctae Romae ecclesiae Cardinalis Rotomagensis vulgaritur nuncupatus ac sacrae religionis fratrum hermitarum sancti.
   
• Text is the same as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 85 (f. 1-31), up to the notation "Feb. 6, 1475" (f. 28v). The end of Ms. Codex 736 and the letter from Cardinal Guillaume de Estouteville are not in Ms. Codex 85.
   

Extent

31 leaves : 165 x 129 (115 x 75) mm bound to 165 x 130 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (parchment) + 31; [1-31]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary doeskin (Zacour-Hirsch). Worm damage, particularly to cover and along spine. Parchment leaf from a lectionary used as pastedown and front flyleaf.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

Red initials throughout.

Script

Written in a humanistic script by one hand, with notarial statement in a second hand, and marginalia in a third hand.

Provenance

• Sold by H. P. Kraus, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Augustinians
• Monasticism and religious orders
• Bulls, Papal

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Papal documents
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• notarial documents

Keywords

• Codices
• Notarial documents
• 15th century
• Christian
• Italy

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside front cover