Description
Alternative title
Duranti Speculum Judiciale
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 340 + 1
Date created
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 79 lines
Height (mm)
410
Width (mm)
260
Collation
1 flyleaf, 1(12)-16(12) 17(10) 18(8) 19(12)-29(12) (wants 11, 12): old foliation slightly incorrect.
Writing
in good hand modelled on Italian
Foliation
ff. i-iii + 1-38 (39 missing) + 40-64 + 64a + 65-191 + 191a + 192-230 + 230a + 231-338 + iv-v
Provenance
From St Albans. At top of last leaf is (xv): De studio dompni abbatis S. Albani. At the bottom of f. 1r is T in a cursive hand.
Additions
Flyleaf, two leaves of a xvth cent. MS. of a Life of Christ, c. 19 on the Temptation, c. 30, De conuersione Marie Magdalene.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 77 contains a copy of the Speculum iudiciale of Willelmus Durandus the Elder (c. 1237-1296). Completed in 1271 and revised twice before the author's death, the Speculum is a manual for the proper administration and exercise of ecclesiastical authority in a synthesis of the concepts underpinning Roman and canon law. The Speculum iudiciale remained an important text for the Catholic church long after the Middle Ages, with several printed editions appearing between the late-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. MS 77 was written in the fourteenth century and an inscription establishes that it was once at the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, Hertfordshire.
- Contents
- Speculum iudiciale
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