Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Liber primus distinctionum super decretales

Authors

• Bohic, Henri, 1310-approximately 1390 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015042280.html)

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 48
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 160

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Amberg, Bavaria, Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains a fifteenth-century copy of Henri Bohic's Liber primus distinctionum super Decretales, a commentary on canon law. Bohic (1310-1350) was a professor of canon law at the University of Paris.

Extent

I+306; 301 x 207 mm bound to 310 x 233 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Structure Uncertain

Support

Paper

Binding

Original pigskin over wooden boards, remains of clasps, in cloth case

Layout

One column of 36-39 lines; frame-ruled with no visible ruling; written area: 206 x 135 mm

Decoration

Two large penwork initials in red and green with marginal extensions (fol. 1r and fol. 3r), the first letter A with two small dragons; initials, underlining, rubrication, and capitals touched up in red

Script

Gothic--cursiva

Colophon

Explicit liber pr[i]m[us] Distinct[i]onu[m] Mag[ist]ri Henrici Bouhic Sub Anno d[omi]ne M(0).ccc.xx(0). Xv. die. Mens. Decembr[i]s. Amberge

Provenance

• Made in Amberg, Bavaria, Dec. 15, 1420; sale, Germany, Jan. 19, 1818, no. 66; sale, Sotheby's, ca. 1880 ?; Viscount Avonmere of Belle Isle, Roscrea; Lord Portarlington, his sale; Townley Searle, Dublin; Sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, Jan. 30, 1923, no. 431; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Commentary
• Commentary
• Christian
• Germany
• Gothic book hand
• Original binding
• Paper
• Legal

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber primus distinctionum super Decretales; incipit: Auditorium suum lecture decretaliu[m]; explicit: Explicit liber pr[i]m[us] Distinct[i]onu[m] Mag[ist]ri Henrici Bouhic Sub Anno d[omi]ne M(0).ccc.xx(0). Xv. die. Mens. Decembr[i]s. Amberge

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Documentation of sales
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Eight line inhabited initial A, two dragons
• fol. 1r — Inhabited initial A
• fol. 4r — Seven line decorated initial G