Formularium novum

Description

Title: Formularium novum
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1400]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Formularium novum, copied after an unbound exemplar in the hands of master Ulrich, librarius at the papal court in Rome. Preserved from the end of chapter 531 up to the end of the text, i.e. chapter 586. Many documents have connections with Bologna. Also contains an undated and unsigned letter addressed to a Pope, answering a letter by the General of the Franciscan order and referring to an invasion of property belonging to the writer's family by a certain Tiburtius, made into a formula
Description: In Latin.
Script: Art. 1 copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria; art. 2 is in another hand, writing a small script of the same type.
Headings in red; instructions for them are written in small Cursiva in the margins, together with the chapter numbers. 2-line flourished initials, alternately red with purple and blue with red penwork. Art. 2 is undecorated.
The reading is doubtful at many places. The corners and outer edges of the final leaves damaged.
Unbound.
Provenance: Purchased by Thomas E. Marston from Bernard M. Rosenthal. Gift of Thomas E. Marston, Dec. 1977.
Extent: ff. 8 : 300 x 210 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Canon law
Forms (Law)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Canon law
Forms (Law)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Formularium Novum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.