Ordo judicarius

Name:

Foscarari, Egidio, -1289

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1300

Description:

A treatise on legal procedure in Bologna, consisting of civil, canon and criminal law. Divided into 5 thematic parts addressing the types of law and legal proceedings as used in Bologna: the first dealing with approved practices in both civil and ecclesiastical cases of the court; the second dealing with spiritual cases; the third with criminal charges against clergy; the fourth with lawyers and libel; and the fifth with dispensations.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by J. Thiebaud (Paris), 1962.

Subject:

Canon law -- Early works to 1800; Canon law; Criminal law -- Italy -- Bologna -- Early works to 1800; Civil procedure -- Italy -- Bologna -- Early works to 1800; Civil procedure; Criminal law

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Latin; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

20 leaves : parchment; 460 x 285 (360 x 210) mm bound to 465 x 290 mm

Geographic Subject:

Bologna (Italy); Italy -- Bologna

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; First secular professor to teach canon law at the University of Bologna.; Title from spine.; Collation: Parchment, ii + (modern paper) + 20 + ii (modern paper); 1¹² 2⁸; [1-20]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 68 lines; ruled in lead.; Script: Written in two Gothic book hands (f. 1r-12v, f.13r-20r).; Decoration: Some pointing hands in margins (f. 1v, 17r).; Incipit: In nomine domini nostri Jesu Christi. Ego Egidius de Fosccariis [sic] civis Bononiae doctor decretorum licet indignus ad instantiam quorundam meorum scolarium et ad eruiditionem novorum advocatorum et militantium in jure canonico, qui licet periti in jure existant ignorantes praticam, causas tamen nesciunt ordinare, etiam ad instructionem judicum et notariorum aggredior praesens opus, in quo qualiter causae tam civiles quam spirituales ac etiam criminales secundum ordinem juris et laudabilem consuetudinem civitatis Bononiae tractari debeant... (f. 1r). Explicit: ...laus tibi sit Christe quoniam liber explicit iste. Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domine vivat (f. 20r).; Binding: Vellum.; Origin: Written in Italy, in the first half of the 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1226