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Title

Commentary on the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX manuscript, ca. 1475?

Other related names

• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.b.42
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=232793

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

Incomplete commentary on Books III (leaves 1-24), I (leaves 25-506), and V (leaves 507-596). The chapter headings in the manuscript correspond in many cases to those in, e.g., the 1584 edition of Gregory IX's Decretales. Occasionally the commentator adds the opening words of the relevant part of Decretales alongside the heading. Includes marginalia and manicules.

Notes

• Title devised by cataloger.
   
• A typescript comparison of the manuscript and the 1584 edition of Decretales is pasted to the back pastedown.
   
• Left margin ruled in dry point.
   

Watermark

8-petaled Daisy throughout (example on leaf 597); "B" on leaf 512.

Extent

Leaves iii + 597 + iii; 300 x 223 mm

Foliation

Foliation

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in original scored pigskin on wood boards, probably beech (with repairs).

Layout

Written in varying number of long lines; left margin ruled in dry point.

Script

Written in a hybrid cursive.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by W.T. Smedley; Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.18

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church. Decretales Gregorii IX --Manuscripts
• Canon law --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Germany

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --Germany --15th century
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Manicules (Provenance)

Keywords

• Theology
• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Legal

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Commentary on Book III of the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX
• fol. 25r — Commentary on Book I of the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX
• fol. 507r — Commentary on Book V of the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, W. T. Smedley