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Alternative title

Gratiani Decretum

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 363

Date created

[ca. 1100-1299]

Language

Latin

Material

Vellum

Layout

double columns of 55 lines

Height (mm)

348

Width (mm)

285

Collation

1(8) (wants 1-3) 2(8) (wants 7, 8) | 3(8)-46(8) (8 a fragment).

Writing

in a very fine hand

Foliation

ff. i-ii + 1-363 + iii-iv

2 fo.

ut sit notorium

refrenatus

Summary

CCCC MS 10 contains a luxury copy of the Decretum (Concordia discordantium canonum), a canon law collection attributed to the twelfth century jurist Gratian (fl. c. 1150). It is one of a group of finely illustrated manuscripts of the text produced in northern France or southern England in the last quarter of the twelfth century. The various 'causae', the legal cases, have historiated and ornamental initials. There is also a full-page miniature of a man standing holding a consanguinity table. Its exact provenance and how it came to be in Parker's possession are unknown.

Contents

Decretum

M.R. James Date

xii-xiii

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ns310xz1949/MS_10.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sz679tz4852/10.pdf

Contains

• Gratian, Decretum. 1r-363r

  James

  Gratiani, Decretum. 1r-363r

  Author

  Gratian

  Note

  (1r) Table of tituli

  Incipit

  (1r) In prima parte agitur de iusticia

  Note

  A title has been erased, and one of cent. xvi inserted

  Rubric

  (1r) Decretum abbreuiatum sigillatim cuncta attingens

  Note

  A fine initial I in gold and colour on blue
  (11r) Ends on Causa xxxvi
  (11v) blank
  (12r) Text begins. At the top a xvith cent, title Concordantia discordancium Canonum, written over erasure

  Incipit

  (12r) Humanum genus duobus regitur

  Note

  There is a splendid initial mostly in blue and vermilion on gold: it contains the small white lions which often mark the work of Christ Church, Canterbury. The whole is edged with green. Smaller initials alternately blue and red. Each Causa has a fine initial; some are decorative, some figured. The latter shall be specified
  (25v) Opposite a sentence about the bad pronunciation of readers, is a sketch (xiv?) of a monk's head: with book on desk, inscribed In principio erat verbum etc.
  (92r) Causa I Abbot in purple with crosier, throned on L. Bearded man on R. presents a small boy in red tunic and a bowl full of silver : gold ground
  (113r) Causa II
  (130v) Causa III
  (138r) Causa IV
  (140r) Causa V
  (142v) Causa VI Bishop in white seated between two litigants
  (145v) Causa VII Bishop in bed, hand to face: another bishop (a substitute) bends over him, two men at head and foot weep
  (152r) Causa VIII (Medallions of beasts)
  (154v) Causa IX
  (157r) Causa X
  (160v) Causa XI
  (171v) Causa XII
  (181r) Causa XIII In C. two men one with sheaf, the other with lamb. On R. and on L. four tonsured clerics, two and two, those on R. hold out hands to receive offerings, those on L. point back to L. The men in C. have been driven from their old diocese and moved to another, but still cultivate their old lands. Tithes are claimed by both churches
  (185r) Causa XIV
  (187v) Causa XV A tonsured man in short tunic smites one on R. on the head with a club: a woman stands with arms out in consternation
  (192r) Causa XVI Abbot in purple habit with crosier seated, under architecture: lamp hangs above: two monks behind him. Two secular clerics seated on L. argue
  (204v) Causa XVII
  (208r) Causa XVIII
  (210v) Causa XIX
  (212r) Causa XX Abbot with crosier throned on R. On L. kneel two tonsured boys, one in blue cowl (a willing novice), the other looking back at his father on L. (unwilling)
  (214r) Causa XXI
  (216r) Causa XXII
  (224r) Causa XXIII
  (246r) Causa XXIV
  (257r) Causa XXV
  (261r) Causa XXVI
  (268r) Causa XXVII A maiden in red in C. (who has vowed not to marry, and repented). A youth on R. holding sword puts his arms round her neck to lead her away. A bearded man (former betrothed) on L. protests, holding her hand
  (275r) Causa XXVIII
  (279r) Causa XXIX
  (280r) Causa XXX
  (283v) Causa XXXI. Man and woman on R. embrace. Man in C. lays hands on woman and looks back at older man on L. (a daughter promised by her father to one, and given to another)
  (285r) Causa XXXII
  (294r) Causa XXXIII
  (325v) Causa XXXIV
  (326v) Causa XXXV Above a man at table, a woman in blue on L. (his wife) hands him a dish. Below two men lay a shrouded corpse (the first wife) in the grave. A cross in C. All the figures are half-length
  (330v) A full-page painting of a man with white beard and hair in purple-grey robe over white, red hose, and black shoes, both patterned: on patterned blue ground: coloured frame. In front of his body is a tree of affinity formed of (blank) white medallions set in a gold frame
  (333v) Causa XXXVI Above, youth and maid at table, servants on R. and in front. Below, youth and maid in bed
  (335r) Ultima pars
  Ends

  Explicit

  (363r) a nisi quod uiderit patrem facientem

  Note

  (363r) Three quarters of the leaf is cut away

TJames

357

Stanley

Under C. 3

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 010

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