Description
Alternative title
Decretales Novae
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 253 + 1
Date created
[ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 37 and 42 lines
Height (mm)
275
Width (mm)
185
Collation
1 flyleaf, 1(8) 2(10) 3(8) 4(10) 5(8)-21(8) 22(6) (wants 6) 23(8)-31(8) | 32(4).
Writing
in a small clear pointed script: principally in two hands
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-250 + iii-vi
2 fo.
unitatem
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 254 contains a thirteenth-century copy of the text of Gregory IX's Decretals (Decretales nouae). Judging from the number of scribbled annotations that appear in several different hands in the margins of the text, it would appear that a succession of canon lawyers regarded this volume as their working copy of an important text for church discipline and government. There is no clue as to the manuscript's provenance, though presumably Parker acquired it as part of his desire to understand the origins and nature of papal and episcopal authority in England in his effort to entrench the English Reformation.
- Contents
- Decretales
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