Manuscript on parchment of Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de paenitentia and Summa de matrimonio; also includes a difficultly deciphered biblical commentary and a list of Dominican Order provincial chapters in 13th century England
Description:
In Latin., Script: copied in several hands: artt. 2 (the main text) and 4 are copied by several hands in bold Northern Gothica Textualis Libraria; art. 1 is written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Antiquior Libraria (Anglicana); and art. 3 is in a rapid Gothica Hybrida., Decoration: Headings, running headlines, heightening of majuscules and underlining in red. Alternately red and blue paragraph marks. 1-line versals alternately red and blue in the Capitula. 2-line blue flourished initials half inserted, with red penwork extending into the left margin or the intercolumnar space. The Preface and the Books open with 6- or 7-line gold initials half inserted on a red and blue square background heightened with white penwork. Artt. 1 and 3 are not decorated; art. 4 has paragraph marks, heightening of majuscules and numbering of the Chapters in red., and Binding: Contemporary, undecorated red leather over rounded wooden boards, worm-eaten. Remnants of two straps attached to the front board and closing over pins (lost) on the rear board. Marks of a chain attached to the lower edge of the front board.
Manuscript on parchment of Raymundus de Pennaforte, Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio (Libri I-IV). With 61 selections from the Decretales of Gregory IX compiled by Raymundus de Pennaforte; Raymundus de Pennaforte, Dubitalia cum responsionibus (Responsio canonica).
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in small gothic bookhand, below top line., Fine flourished initial, 5-line, divided red and blue, with penwork designs in both colors and long marginal tail of letter Q, f. 1r. Smaller flourished initials incorporating the heads of bird-like grotesques and cross-hatching designs. 1-line initials alternate red and blue for chapter lists. Paragraph marks and running headlines in red and blue. Rubrics throughout; instructions for rubricator along outer edges of leaves, some perpendicular to text., and Binding: Date? The covers are wanting but were probably of limp vellum. Original sewing on twisted tawed skin, slit ribbons, the sewing beaded in the center. A fragment of a parchment bifolium from a 14th-century breviary (mostly rubbed and illegible) is glued to the spine and cut out for the sewing supports; a portion of the fragment extends along the front and back of the text block.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275.
Subject (Topic):
Canon law, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholasticism