[Libellus super electionibus faciendis et earum ordinandis]

Name:

Mandagot, Guillaume de, -1321

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1300

Description:

Two unbound quires from a work dealing with a section of canon law, with Mandagot's own gloss on his work and some details relating to the church at Toulouse, where the author was provost for a time.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Purchased, 1959.

Relation:

Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/114

Subject:

Election law (Canon law); Canon law -- Early works to 1800; Canon law; Election law (Canon law) -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); commentaries; illuminations (paintings); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval

Physical Description:

24 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 406 x 265 (335 x 225) mm

Geographic Subject:

Toulouse (France) -- Church history

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from rubric (f. 1r).; Incipit: Venerabili viro discretione scientia et moribus...; Explicit: ...in eodem opere contulit sua ineffabili pietate sit benedictio et claritas sapientia et gratiarum actio honor virtus et fortitudo in secula seculorum, amen. Explicit libellus electionum editus a magistro Guillermo de Mandagote archidiacono Nemausis (f. 24r).; Collation: Parchment, 24; 2¹²; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 35-44 lines with commentary framing the main text.; Script: Written in a Gothic book script.; Decoration: Historiated initial of the author Guillaume de Mandagot teaching, with drollery of rabbit playing bagpipes (f. 1r); rubricated in red and blue, with decorated initials with penwork ornamentation in red and blue, in both text and commentary.; Origin: Written in France, possibly Avignon, in the early 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Same text as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 103.; Parchment is brittle, cracking along outer edges of some leaves.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 729