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[Statements from the Council of Basel].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 707
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Manuscript
- Conference Name:
- Council of Basel (1431-1449 : Basel, Switzerland)
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--History--15th century.
- Catholic Church.
- History.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1955.
- Physical Description:
- 46 leaves : paper ; 278 x 212 (187 x 123) mm bound to 282 x 209 mm
- Other Title:
- Acta consilii basiliensis.
- Place of Publication:
- [Germany], [between 1432 and 1450]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Contents:
- 1. f.1r-9v: Oratio in congregatione generali [22 August 1432] / Andrea de Petra.
- 2. f.9v-15r: Oratio ad patres concilii / Johannes, archbishop of Taranto [on behalf of Pope Eugene IV, on church unity].
- 3. f.15v-34v: Responsio synodalis de autoritate cuiuslibet concilii generalis supra papam [1432].
- 4. f.35r-46v: Oratio luculenta ad convertendum Bohemos / Julianus Caesarinus [incomplete, missing final 2 leaves?].
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Titles and attribution for speeches and statements from the Zacour-Hirsch, taken from Mansi.
- Dates for speeches from Mansi.
- Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 46 + i (modern paper); [1-46]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 35-37 long lines.
- Script: Written in a 15th-century German cursive script by a single hand.
- Decoration: Red initials at the beginning of each speech.
- Binding: Modern half-vellum.
- Watermark: Similar or identical with Briquet, 2774.
- Origin: Written in Germany between 1432 and 1450.
- 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), pp. 14-15 (Ms. Latin 64).
- Texts have been identified in Mansi, Giovan Domenico. Sacrorum conciliorum nova, et amplissima collectio, vol. 29, but do not follow his sequence.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 707
- OCLC:
- 212091732
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