Tractatus minoricarum

Description

Title: Tractatus minoricarum
Creator: Bartolo, of Sassoferrato, 1313-1357
Published / Created: approximately 1450.
Publication Place: Germany?
Abstract: Manuscript, on paper, in a single scribal hand, of this treatise on the administrative questions of communal ownership and inheritance raised by the Franciscan vow of poverty
Description: Bartolo of Sassoferrato (1313-1357), also known as Bartolus de Saxoferrato, was a prominent Italian legal scholar who taught in severa northern Italian universities and wrote many influential treatises, including several pertaining to the administrative and judicial problems raised by the rule of poverty of the Franciscan order.
In Latin.
Layout: single column of 43 lines.
Script: gothica cursiva.
Binding: 19th-century marbled paper over pasteboards.
Guards from fragments of unidentified Hebrew manuscript on parchment.
Provenance: Previously owned by Kamień Pomorski cathedral library. Purchased from Forum Auctions (London sale, 2020 January 22, lot 109) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2020.
Extent: 20 pages : 310 mm x 240 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscript waste (Binding)
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: manuscript ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Bartolo, of Sassoferrato, 1313-1357.
Subject (Topic): Franciscans
Law
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Bartolo, of Sassoferrato, 1313-1357
Franciscans > Early works to 1800
Law > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Bartolo of Sassoferrato, Tractatus minoricarum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.