[Privilegia et libertates]

Contributor:

Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447 (addressee)

Name:

Teutonic Knights; Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250; Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216; Honorius III, Pope, -1227; Gregory IX, Pope, approximately 1170-1241; Innocent IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1254; Urban IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1264; Alexander IV, Pope, -1261

Date:

1450

Description:

Consists of papal bulls and documents concerning privileges granted to the Order of Teutonic Knights. Includes 82 bulls of Honorius III; 2 of Gregory IX, 3 of Innocent IV; 18 of Alexander IV; 1 each of Innocent III and Urban IV; also, 5 privileges of Emperor Frederick II. Folio 49v contains two notes that appear to date later than the rest of the manuscript: Nonne cor nostrum ardens in nobis (Luke 24:32) in red, and a passage concerning the observance of octaves on feast days.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Acquired, 1966.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/61059

Subject:

Teutonic Knights -- Privileges and immunities; Teutonic Knights; Bulls, Papal -- Specimens; Privileges and immunities, Ecclesiastical; Bulls, Papal; Privileges and immunities

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); bulls (papal records); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

51 leaves : parchment; 177 x 123 (127 x 85) mm bound to 170 x 125 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Heading on f. 1r: Quod fratres domus theutonici libere utantur privilegiis et libertatibus a domino papa concessis hospitalariis et templariis.; Collation: Parchment, i (contemporary paper) + 49 + i (contemporary paper); 1-4¹⁰, 5¹⁰(-1); [1-49]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. There is a stub between f. 41 and 42, but no text is lost; f. 48 is tipped in. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 29 long lines; ruled in lead; prickings visible.; Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script in a single hand, except for a prayer (f. 49v) which appears to be in a different, slightly later hand.; Decoration: 4-line blue initial with red penwork ornamentation (f. 1r); 3-line or 4-line alternating red or blue initials; rubricated throughout.; Binding: Limp vellum notarial document (1431-1447, addressed to Pope Eugene IV), with decorative sewing on spine. Germany, 15th century.; Origin: Written in Germany, ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch). The many marginal references to Mergentheim, along with others to Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Cologne, and other German municipalities refer to locations of original or related documents.; Most of these documents are published in Ernst Strehlke, Tabulae ordinis theutonici (Berlin, 1869). The numbers of the documents in Strehlke are given in the margin of the manuscript, in modern pencil.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 105