Manuscript leaves from a canon law text, between 1240 and 1260

Contributor:

Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Name:

Catholic Church

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1240

Description:

2 leaves used as pastedowns from a manuscript of a canon law text, with glosses, written in Germany in the mid-13th century. The leaves were consecutive and contain text and glosses for selected chapters from the Decretals of Gregory IX, taken from Book 3, Titles 31 (De regularibus et transeuntibus ad religionem) and 32 (De conversione coniugatorum), which present regulations about men entering religious orders. The main text is written in 2 columns of 41 lines, ruled in lead. Main text is written in a Gothic script; commentary in marginal glosses is written in a smaller Gothic script. Multiple initials, 2 to 4 lines in height, in red with blue flourishing or blue with red flourishing; 1-line initials generally alternate between blue and red.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Used as pastedowns in a binding by 16th-century Cambridge book binder Godfrey Garrett of the Paraphrases of Erasmus.; Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs35.html

Subject:

Canon law -- Early works to 1800; Canon law; Monastic and religious life -- Early works to 1800; Monastic and religious life

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions); Commentaries; Decretals; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves) : parchment; 309 x 213-220 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 35

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)