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Royal MS 9 F V

Record Id:

040-002106478

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000007

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Royal MS 9 F V

Title:

Decretals

Scope & Content:

From Warner and Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections (1921), I, pp. 299-300:

'SEXTVS LIBER DECRETALIVM, and commentaries on it (cf. 9 E. II), viz.:-

1. ' Apparatus domini Guydonis [de Baysio, Arch. deacon of Bologna 1296] super vi. librum decretalium' (so colophon). Printed, Milan, 1490 (see Schulte, Gesch. der Quellen des can. Rechts, ii, p. 188). Beg. 'Venerabilibus et discretis uiris rectoribus uniuersitatis scolarum Bononic ... Vestris deuictus precibus et amore'. f. 1.

2. 'Liber sextus decretalium Bonifacius octauus (sic)': the Sext, with marginal gloss [of Cardinal Jean le Moine] as in 9 E. II. The prologue is addressed to Oxford. f. 107.

3. 'Apparatus sexti libri Iohannis Andree' (so colophon): the commentary of Giovanni d' Andrea, the Bologna canonist (d. 1348). Printed repeatedly in-the 15th cent, (see Schulte, ii, p. 213). Beg. 'Quia preposterus est ordo prius humana'. f. 216 b.

Vellum; ff. 293. 161/4 in. x 101/4 in. XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (ix¹⁰, last ⁷), with catchwords. Written in England, possibly at Reading Abbey, having the arms azure, three escallops or, two and one, introduced in the omament of f. 1. Art. 1 has one illuminated border and small miniature-initial (Boniface VIII) only; art. 2 one miniature-initial (Boniface VIII and a canonist, f. 107) and many small illuminated initials; art. 3 one border-initial. Other initials flourished in red and blue. Cat. of 1666, f. 12?; CMA. 84o6?.'

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-002106478

Is part of:

Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 9 F V : Decretals

Hierarchy:

032-002105724[0711]/040-002106478

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Publications:

George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, pp. 299-300.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N.R. Ker, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3, 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 156.

Alan Coates, English Medieval Books: The Reading Abbey Collections from Foundation to Dispersal (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), pp. 102-03, 131, 167.

The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J.P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. xxxvi, n. 48.

Susan L’Engle and Robert Gibbs, Illuminating the Law: Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections (London : Harvey Miller, 2001), p. 224, n. 9.

Richard Gameson, Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral (London: Third Millennium, 2010), p. 133.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)