[Summula de casibus].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Government.

Catholic Church.

Political science.

Canon law--Early works to 1800.

Canon law.

Ecclesiastical law--Early works to 1800.

Ecclesiastical law.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Sold in Germany to Henry Charles Lea.

Physical Description:

68 leaves : paper ; 200 x 137 (110 x 70) mm bound to 204 x 140 mm

Production:

[Italy], circa 1356.

Other Title:

Tractatus de confessione.

Language Note:

Latin, with one leaf in Italian (f. 2r).

Summary:

Work concerned with canon law (f. 3r-66v), preceded by an inventory of livestock dated December 1356 and a note on animals born in January (f. 2r) and followed by a brief devotional text on the Incarnation (Cernui supplices iocundi christo cantemus ..., f. 68r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch; Schulte); title Tractatus de confessione written in pencil in a much later hand on the first leaf (f. 1r).

Incipit and explicit: (f. 3r) Peccata que ad episcopum debent micti. Nota sexta tamtum [sic] casus quos debet sacerdos ... (f. 66v) per censuram ecclesia compellantur vel ambo[?] in concordia noluerunt continere.

Collation: Paper, 68; 1²⁴, 2²², 3²⁴(-2); [1-68]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 21-27 long lines.

Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.

Watermark: Similar to Briquet 3997 (Pisa, 1356-7).

Decoration: Initials in brown ink with penwork ornamentation; several filigree designs appear in the margins throughout.

Binding: Italian limp vellum (14th-century notarial deed executed in Camerino) wrapper, sewn on split alum-tawed bands. Monogram "S" on front and back.

Origin: Probably written in Italy, circa 1356 (f. 2r).

This copy of the Summula apparently includes material not found in the Frankfurt manuscript cited by Schulte. That manuscript (Frankfurt-am-Main, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. Barth. 88) ends with "... generaliter per verba de presenti." A variant of that phrase ends the section De matrimonio in the present manuscript (f. 36r). The present manuscript then continues with sections titled De male[?] abbatis, De religiosis (f. 52v), Rationes testamenti (f. 57r), De blasfematores[?] dei vel alioris[?] sancti[?] (f. 60v) and De purificationem post partum (f. 64r).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 150 (Ms. Lea 17).

Listed in De Ricci, Seymour. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, v. 2, p. 2108, no. 9.

Schulte, J. F. von. Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des Canonischen Rechts (Graz, 1956), II, 534.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 53

OCLC:

155962687