Apparatus d[omi]ni Bernardi Raymundi in sexto libro decretalium

Alternate Title:

Decretales

Name:

Raymundus, Bernardus; Garsias, Hispanus, Bishop of Sigüenza, active 1277-1299

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1350

Description:

Partial copy of commentaries by Bernardus Raymundus and Garsias Hispanus on the Liber sextus, a major collection of decretals published by Pope Boniface VIII in 1298; includes some marginal annotations, and has a list of the virtues of an unidentified herb and a short apocryphal Passion text (f. 51r-v).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Quires 1-3 sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1959.; Quires 4-5 sold by Laurence Witten (Southport, Conn.), 1980.

Subject:

Jesus Christ Passion Early works to 1800; Jesus Christ; Catholic Church. -- Liber sextus decretalium; Catholic Church; Canon law -- Early works to 1800; Canon law; Medicinal plants -- Early works to 1800; Medicinal plants; Passion of Jesus Christ

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

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

Physical Description:

51 leaves : parchment; 409 x 265 (305 x 184)mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. gatherings.; Title from incipit for first work (f. 1r); alternate title from scrap of binding material pasted on the first page of the collection of leaves.; Collation: Parchment, 51; 1-2¹² 3¹¹(+11) 4⁴ 5¹²; [1-51]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Catchwords present on lower right verso of quires 1-4, those in quire 3 apply to the additional page of the quire; quires missing between 2 and 3 and between 3 and 4.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 61 lines, ruled in lead.; Script: Written in a rounded Gothic book script; annotations, list, and apocryphal text written in a Gothic cursive script.; Decoration: Puzzle initial with J-chain in red and blue, 11-line (f. 1r), 13-line (f. 27r), 3-line (f. 38r); pen-flourished 2 line initials throughout, small sketches of faces in profile as well as various grotesques in the margins, including a dragon (f. 39r).; Origin: Written in France (Avignon?), ca. 1350.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1088