[Summula de casibus]

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1356

Description:

Work concerned with canon law (f. 3r-66v), preceded by an inventory of livestock dated December 1356 and a note on animals born in January (f. 2r) and followed by a brief devotional text on the Incarnation (Cernui supplices iocundi christo cantemus ..., f. 68r).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold in Germany to Henry Charles Lea.; Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Government; Catholic Church; Political science; Canon law -- Early works to 1800; Canon law; Ecclesiastical law -- Early works to 1800; Ecclesiastical law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

68 leaves : paper; 200 x 137 (110 x 70) mm bound to 204 x 140 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch; Schulte); title Tractatus de confessione written in pencil in a much later hand on the first leaf (f. 1r).; Incipit and explicit: (f. 3r) Peccata que ad episcopum debent micti. Nota sexta tamtum [sic] casus quos debet sacerdos ... (f. 66v) per censuram ecclesia compellantur vel ambo[?] in concordia noluerunt continere.; Collation: Paper, 68; 1²⁴, 2²², 3²⁴(-2); [1-68]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 21-27 long lines.; Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.; Watermark: Similar to Briquet 3997 (Pisa, 1356-7).; Decoration: Initials in brown ink with penwork ornamentation; several filigree designs appear in the margins throughout.; Binding: Italian limp vellum (14th-century notarial deed executed in Camerino) wrapper, sewn on split alum-tawed bands. Monogram "S" on front and back.; Origin: Probably written in Italy, circa 1356 (f. 2r).; This copy of the Summula apparently includes material not found in the Frankfurt manuscript cited by Schulte. That manuscript (Frankfurt-am-Main, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. Barth. 88) ends with "... generaliter per verba de presenti." A variant of that phrase ends the section De matrimonio in the present manuscript (f. 36r). The present manuscript then continues with sections titled De male[?] abbatis, De religiosis (f. 52v), Rationes testamenti (f. 57r), De blasfematores[?] dei vel alioris[?] sancti[?] (f. 60v) and De purificationem post partum (f. 64r).; Latin, with one leaf in Italian (f. 2r).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 53