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

Title

Repertorium juris civilis (Catalog of Civil Law)

Authors

• Milis, Joannes Nicolaus, active 15th century (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001061222.html)

Other related names

• Hertzberger, Menno, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2005023709.html)
• 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 142
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 159

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Neuberg, Germany

Summary

Little is known about Johannes Nicolaus de Milis except that he was the author of this legal text, which he wrote in the 1430s, and that he was probably from Verona. The text itself comprises a legal glossary arranged alphabetically, beginning with "absenti". This manuscript was made in the Bavarian town of Neuberg by the scribe Georgius of Neuberg, who completed the work on Oct. 17, 1458. Although the book was written in Germany by a German scribe, the script and decoration are clearly influenced by the style of Italian manuscripts of the same period.

Notes

• Stamp with number "214" affixed to spine
   
• Folios 11 and 20 are singletons, but are joined together using a paper guard
   
• Folios 341 and 348 are singletons, but joined together using a paper guard
   

Extent

348; 300 x 215 mm bound to 304 x 226 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (10), 2 (10, +1 +10), 3-34 (10), 35 (8, +1 +8)

Signatures

Signatures throughout; print-style with markings on the first five leaves of the quires (e.g., f1, f2, f3, f4, f5); many of the signatures are trimmed away

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Lower right verso

Binding

Original half calf over wooden boards, with original clasps and chain fastened to the upper edge of the back cover; "REPERTORIUM ABSENTI" is written in ink across the top of the front cover

Layout

Written area: 180 x 125 mm; One column of forty lines, lead point ruling

Decoration

Large illuminated initial and floral extension; illuminated initials with extensions throughout, marginal decoration and figures throughout; paint or varnish has been applied to the margin of fol. 1r, giving the page a sheen

Script

Rotunda

Scribe: Georgius of Neuberg

Colophon

Fol. 344v: "Et sic est finis huius Repertorii scriptum per me Georgiu[m] Newberg[er] de Newberga. Proxima die post diem s[an]cti Galli Anno Millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo octavo."

Provenance

• Menno Hertzberger, Amsterdam; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2054, no. 159.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 156-7, no. 142, illus. of plate between pp. 156 and 157.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Glossary
• Germany
• German
• Legal
• Illumination
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Repertorium juris civilis; incipit: Absenti. Queritur actio ex contractu per pr[obar]em celebrato . . . [Fol. 1r]; explicit: Vxori an debeantur alimenta ab heredibus uiri mortua uira uide sub u[er]bo alimenta que miserocionis. Santio. en constitucio pena vallata ut dicit archi[piscopi]. m c. statute[m] de r[e]p[ara]t li vi in u[er]bo sanctionem. [Fol. 344]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Large illuminated initial A with floral extension
• fol. 26v — Six-line illuminated initial B
• fol. 35v — Seven-line illuminated initial C
• fol. 68v — Nine-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 85v — Nine-line illuminated initial E
• fol. 113v — Seven-line illuminated initial F
• fol. 124r — Nine-line illuminated initial G
• fol. 136v — Nine-line illuminated initial H
• fol. 137v — Eight-line illuminated initial I
• fol. 170r — Nine-line illuminated initial L
• fol. 188v — Nine-line illuminated initial M
• fol. 196r — Nine-line illuminated initial N
• fol. 209v — Nine-line illuminated initial O
• fol. 211v — Twelve-line illuminated initial P
• fol. 296r — Ten-line illuminated initial O
• fol. 296v — Nine-line illuminated initial R
• fol. 309v — Nine-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 325v — Eight-line illuminated initial T
• fol. 338r — Nine-line illuminated initial U
• fol. 344v — Seven-line illuminated initial B