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Title

Constitutiones clementinae

Authors

• Got, Bertrand de c. 1260-1314 (https://viaf.org/viaf/100213157)
• Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348 (https://viaf.org/viaf/24629057)

Other related names

• Viviens, Johannes, former owner
• Osborne, Thomas, -1767, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/227713609)
• Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/35552770)
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/78699777)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 7
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms7.shtml
• Goodhart: 12
• deRicci: 12

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Avignon?, Southern France

Summary

This manuscript was produced in Southern France, possibly in Avignon, in the mid-fourteenth century. It contains the text of Clement V's Constitutiones clementinae with the surrounding commentary of Giovanni d'Andrea (Johannes d'Andreae). There is some loss of text. On fol. 1r is an eighteen-line miniature showing an enthroned Pope (Clement) flanked by groups of cardinals and bishops and, kneeling before him, a bare-headed cleric presenting a book. On the lower portion of the same folio, there is a coat of arms, a bendy of six azure and argent with a T in the second, possibly of the Bishop of Toulouse. There are two eight-line initials on a gold ground, numerous six- to three-line pink or blue initials with white filigree on the opposite color ground infilled with gold, some of which are infilled with a profile head of an orange dog with bared teeth on a gold ground, and many two- to seven-line initials in red and blue on red and blue fine line backgrounds with penwork designs. The chapter headings are in red, the paragraph markers in red or blue and there is extensive marginal decoration, whimsical heads, vinestems, and other decorations. This manuscript may be compared with the Liber Sextus Decretalium now in the Library of Congress (De Ricci, p. 207, no. 48); both volumes are addressed to the scholars of Toulouse, written by the same scribe, and illuminated by the same hand. De Ricci suggests that they were at one time bound together, but this is by no means certain. The two manuscripts were purchased together by W. M. Voynich. Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate) acquired this manuscript from his estate, and presented it to Bryn Mawr College in 1951.

Notes

• Numerous annotations in the margins in contemporary hands
   
• Text glossed by two contemporary hands
   
• Binding restored by J. MacDonald Co., East Norwalk, Conn.
   
• Lower corner of fol. 11 has been cut away with some loss of text.
   

Extent

Ii+59+ii; 413 x 274 mm bound to 430 x 292 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12, -2 -4), 2 (10), 3 (8), 4 (12), 5 (12, -6), 6 (8)

Signatures

Remains of quire and leaf signatures

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Two remaining catchwords in lower margin below inner column, verso at fols. 20v and 28v; traces of other catchwords at fols. 10v and 51v

Binding

English scored Russian leather with fine gold-tooled border, circa 1750; title stamped on spine in gold: "O. P. Clement/ V. MSS."

Layout

Main text and commentary in two columns, a maximum of thirty-five lines of text and eighty-eight lines of commentary, single vertical and horizontal bounding lines full across, ruled in hard point and ink, prickings in upper and lower margins; written area (inclusive of both columns of secondary text): 345 x 227 mm

Decoration

One eighteen-line miniature, showing an enthroned pope (Clement) holding a closed book, symmetrically flanked by groups of cardinals and bishops and, kneeling before him, a bare-headed cleric presenting a book; Coat of arms, bendy of six azure and argent with a T in the second; two eight-line initials on a gold ground; numerous six- to three-line pink or blue initials with white filigree on the opposite color ground infilled with gold, some initials infilled with a profile head of an orange dog with bared teeth on a gold ground; many two- to seven-line initials in red and blue on red and blue fine line backgrounds with penwork designs; chapter headings in red, paragraph markers in red or blue; extensive marginal decoration, whimsical heads, vinestems, and other decorations

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Arms at bottom of fol. 1r (bendy of six azure and argent with a T in the second), possibly of the Bishop of Toulouse; ownership note on fol. 43r in a later hand: "Johannes Vivens licentiatus in iure"; listed in Thomas Osborne's catalog for 1752, no. 2706 (autograph catalogue entry glued to front flyleaf); unidentified English catalogue entry on inside front cover; note in pencil on back flyleaf: "H 10836"
   

Related resources

• 1752 - Osborne, Thomas, -1767 - T Osborne's catalogue of books, of several very considerable libraries for the year 1752, lot 2706
• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1678, no. 12; p. 207, no. 48.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 224-26, no. 78.
• Bilotta, Maria Alessandra, "Coesistenza e cooperazione nel Sud della Francia fra XIII e XIV sec.: il caso di alcuni manoscritti giuridici miniati ad Avignone," in Coexistence and Cooperation in the middle ages, IV European Congress of Medieval Studies F.I.D.E.M., ed. Alessandro Musco and Giuliana Musotto (Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2014), pp. 230-31 (article pp. 213-247).

Keywords

• 14th century
• France
• Treatise
• Theology
• Legal

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Constitutiones clementinae; incipit: Ioannes episcopus seruus seruuorum dei dilectis filiis doctoribus et scholaribus uniuersis tholose commorantibus salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Quoniam nulla iuris sanctio quantumcumque perpenso digestam... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ...si tunc in premissis casibus sollempnis ordo iudiciarum in toto uel in parte non contradicentibus partibus obseruetur non erit processus propter hoc irritus nec etiam irritandus. Idem in eodem. Exunt [sic] qui seminat seminare semen suum. Explicit textus clementinarum. [fol. 59v]
• fol. 1r — Commentary of Joannes Andreae; incipit: Ioannes...deriuaciones uel ethimologias extolle non est meum... [fol. 1r]; explicit: Natura uero naturans cum ad illam redibimus per intercessionem uirginis nos [collocet] cum electis Amen. Explicit apparatus clementinarum Johannis Andree. Qui scripsit scribat semper ante dominus uiuat. Amen. Deo gratias. [fol. 59v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Print catalog entry
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Autograph catalogue entry for Osborne's catalog 1752, no. 2706, tipped-in
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Booksellers' notes in pencil
• fol. 1r — Eighteen-line miniature, centered, of enthroned pope (Clement V) holding a closed book, symmetrically flanked by groups of cardinals and bishops
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 1r — Coat of arms in a quattrefoil, bendy of six azure and argent with a T in the second
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Autograph catalogue entry for Osborne's catalog 1752, no. 2706, tipped-in
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Booksellers' notes in pencil