[Miscellany of works on Catholic doctrine, canon law and religious life]
- Description
- Contains six works generally concerned with Catholic doctrine, canon law and religious life, including a register of Peter Lombard's four books of Sentences, together with an index to St. Augustine's City of God and other notes. Also includes works by Nikolaus Jauer, Bartholomaeus de Ebraco and Caspar de Caldrinis, as well as two unattributed works.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Latin
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1400
- Language
- Latin
- Subject
- Catholic Church -- Discipline
- Catholic Church
- Discipline
- Catholic Church -- Doctrines
- Canonists -- Early works to 1800
- Christian life -- Early works to 1800
- Christian life
- Devotional exercises
- Indulgences (Canon law)
- Canonists
- Extent
- 179 leaves : paper ; 294 x 220 (170 x 93) mm bound to 297 x 228 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Table of contents: -- f.1r-22v: [Register of the four books of Peter Lombard's Sentences] -- 2. f.23r-34v: [Index to St. Augustine's City of God and other notes] -- 3. f.35r-63v: Tractatus de superstitionibus / Nikolaus Jauer. -- 4. f.64v-154v: Lecturae super firmiter credimus / Bartholomaeus de Ebraco. -- 5. f.155r-174r: Tractatus de indulgentiis / Caspar de Caldrinis. -- 6. f.174r-176r: Prohibitio de proprietate tenenda. -- 7. f.176v-179v: De horis canonicis.
- Title supplied by cataloger. Zacour-Hirsch and Andrew Little give the title: Registrum primi [-quarti] libri sententiarum.
- Spine label gives Nikolaus Jauer as the main heading for the entire manuscript.
- Colophon (f. 63v, 154v, 174r): Jo. Deo gratias alt.
- Signatures: Arabic numerals, lower left corner, first recto of each quire.
- Collation: Paper, 179; 1-2⁶, 3⁵, 4-14⁶, 15⁶(+1); [1-179]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Some catchwords visible, lower right verso of last leaf of each quire. Link to collation model at end of record.
- Script: Written in a Gothic cursive book script by many hands, with marginal comments in several contemporary hands.
- Decoration: Rubricated capitals, initials, paragraph marks, and underlining throughout.
- Watermark: Similar to Piccard V. vii. 429 (1470).
- Binding: 15th-century German blind stamped brown calf over pasteboards, badly abraded, with cut marks on upper and lower covers.
- Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Folio 13 is loose.
- There is evidence of slight water damage.
- Latin.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3707wq9b
- Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/100
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 78
- Provenance
- Contains an old, unidentified shelf mark, E18 (f. 1r); purchased by Henry Charles Lea, 1877.
- Passed to the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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