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Subject(s)

• Canon law—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Bernard Quaritch (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 97. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Bosses (Bindings) [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Anthropomorphic letters [Browse]
• Parchment (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminations (paintings) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• decorated initials [Browse]

Summary note

The decretum with the Glossa ordinaria initially compiled by Johannes Teutonicus of Halberstadt around 1215-1218 and revised by Bartholomew of Brescia around 1245

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption above incipit (fol. 3a).
• Following the colophon: An incomplete transcription of a constitution of 1251 "Cum in concilio Lugduniensi" by Pope Innocent IV (fol. 331r); Table of contents listing distinctiones and causae in all three parts of the Decretum Gratiani (fol. 331v-332r) and a 2-column listing of the Seven Sacraments, Seven Cardinal Virtues, Articles of the Faith, Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost, and others. In a third column are aphorisms, clarifications, and references to authorities with a 43-line list of aphorisms, and another legal list of 15 items (fol. 332r).
• Collation: Parchment ; fols. i + 332 + ii ; contemporary catchwords in red ink at the center of final folios of each quire, except for a catchword in a banderole (fol. 107v) ; contemporary quire marks in all quires ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 2 columns of 56-57 lines surrounded by systematic gloss.
• Decoration: Italian Gothic. Thirty-eight folios include column miniatures, figured initials, bas-de-page illustrations, and other forms of significant decoration. Lesser divisions marked with 4-line initials in blue, pink, vermillion, gold, and white; 3-line red or blue initials with penwork of the opposite color. See the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 215-216 for detailed descriptions of the miniatures.

Binding note

Later binding. Italy, 17th century (?). Green calf over pasteboard (approximately 7 mm thick), chamfered at edge, with five large brass bosses on each board (one at each corner and one at the center) and green-silk bookmarks sewn into the binding from the headband. Blind-stamped concentric rectangular frame.

Language note

Latin;

Script

Littera bononiensis.

Provenance

Early provenance unknown. Late medieval owners or users of the manuscript added glosses on fols. 2r-3r and inscriptions "decreto" and "michael" on fol. 2v. Robert Garrett (1875-1961), of Baltimore, Maryland, Class of 1897, purchased the manuscript on 15 July 1925 from Quaritch. Garrett's gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift Robert Garrett, Class of 1897; 1942.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 213-217.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

Italy Bologna.

Other title(s)

• Canonum concordia
• Glossa ordinaria.

Byname

• Decretum Gratiani

OCLC

1098107980

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