Sextus liber decretalium, etc
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Description
- Title
- Sextus liber decretalium, etc
- Creator
- Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303
- Contributor
-
Clement V, Pope, approximately 1260-1314.
Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348.
John XXII, Pope, -1334. - Published / Created
- [ca. 1325]
- Publication Place
- Bologna
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Boniface VIII, Sextus liber decretalium. 2) Commentary of Joannes Andreae on art. 1. 3) Clemens V, Constitutiones, with preface of John XXII. 4) John XXII, "Quia nonnunquam".
- Description
-
In Latin.
Script: Folios 1-96 written in littera bononiensis; ff. 1-22 written in a less formal Gothic bookhand. Numerous annotations in the margins by contemporary and later hands.
Two miniatures, f. 1r, an enthroned pope holding an open book and symmetrically flanked by ecclesiastical and secular parties, and f. 96r, a Franciscan monk presenting a book to an enthroned pope with clerical and lay attendants. Full border for text on f. 1r, constructed of solid panels, gold and red with white filigree, filled with two karyatid figures, a cleric, and a man in a blue robe. Partial border in lower margin, 3 medallions in blue, pink and red, with a papal portrait in half length, an angel, and a third subject now effaced. The medallions are connected by lozenges, green, blue and red with scrolling vines in blue, red, and green with white filigree and gold dots. 32 marginal figures in various costumes, among them several clerics, knights and an angel, often in animated poses. Numerous illuminated initials, 6- to 3-line in pink, blue or grey on blue, red, pink and gold grounds with white filigree. Foliage serifs in pink, red, grey and blue with white highlights. 39 initials with bust-length figures. Remaining initials in pink and red with white filigree. Calligraphic initials, alternating in red and blue with blue and red penwork scrolls. Plain initials and paragraph marks alternate in red and blue.
Binding: Fifteenth century (?), Italy. Limp vellum case, restored. - Provenance
- Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 13625). Purchased in 1957 from H. P. Kraus by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. i + 118 + i : 450 x 275 (written space: 415 x 235 for ff. 1r-96v with gloss, ca. 260 x 175 for ff. 97r-114v) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Digitization Note
- Final leaf (now foliated 96) misbound between ff. 93-94.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 155
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303.
- Subject (Topic)
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Canon law
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Papal documents
Scholia - Subjects
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Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303
Canon law > Early works to 1800
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Papal documents
Scholia
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Boniface VIII, Sextus Liber Decretalium, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9811118
- Object ID (OID)
- 10079620
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