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[Summa].
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Giovanni, da Bologna, -1314.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Notaries (Canon law)--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Canon law--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- Canon law.
- Notaries (Canon law).
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- devotional calendars
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Medieval.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. to Laurence C. Witten, 1955 (Berlow).
- Sold by Witten (catalog 4, no. 59), 1957. Catalog in curatorial files.
- Physical Description:
- 43 leaves : parchment ; 230 x 172 mm bound to 240 x 175 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy?], [1270-1299]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Notarial handbook including summae by Giovanni da Bologna and Arnulfus Canonicus Parisiensis, exempla, and a consilium of Ioannes Teutonicus combined with an excerpt from Raymond of Peñafort.
- Contents:
- 1. f. 1r-25v: Summa / Johannes de Bononia.
- 2. f. 26r-30r: Exempla.
- 3. f. 31r-43v: Summa / a Magistro Arnulfo Caconico [i.e. Canonico].
- 4. f. 43v: Consilium.
- 5. f. 43v: Summa de casibus [excerpt].
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title and author from incipit (f. 1r).
- Collation: Parchment, 43; 1⁸ (- 2), 2⁸, 3⁸, 4⁸, 5⁸, 6⁶ (-1) (Berlow); [1-43]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
- Script: Written in an early Gothic bookhand (1st work and most of 3rd work) and a small cursive notarial hand (end of 3rd work, 2nd, 4th, and 5th works) (Berlow).
- Decoration: Red used for initials and rubrics in the 1st and 3rd works.
- Binding: Contemporary half-pigskin over wooden boards with pastedowns taken from an 11th-century liturgical manuscript (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue, Berlow). Front pastedown loose.
- Origin: Written in the late 13th century, perhaps in Italy (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue).
- Incipit (1st work): Incipit summa mag[ist]ri Johan[n]is de Bononia. Reverendo i[n] X[rist]o D[omi]no gr[ati]a Cant[abrigiae?] archiep[iscop]o totius Angli[a]e p[ri]mati. Joh[ann]es Bon[onia].
- Explicit (1st work): Res[er]vata nobis plenam [et] lib[er]am potestatem p[ro]ut crediderim[us] esse iustu[m] alias in d[i]c[t]o negocio p[ro]cedendi. In cui[us] rei testimo[niae]. [etc.] dat[um] [etc.] Deo gr[ati]as.
- Incipit (3rd work): Incipit summa [com]posita a mag[ist]ro Arnulfo Caconico [i.e. Canonico] P[ar]isiense sup[er] processu ordinis iudicarii. Ut nos minores in iure aliq[uo] m[odo] possimus instrui...
- Explicit (3rd work): Datum [?] explicit p[ro]cess[us] Arnulfi.
- Incipit (4th work): Om[n]ib[us] p[re]sente[m] pagina[m] i[n]sp[ec]turis Joh[ann]es i[n]digne d[i]c[t]us mag[iste]r ac Halb[er]stad[e]n[sis] p[re]p[osi]t[u]s in salutis au[cto]re sal[utem].
- Explicit (4th work): Et ut n[u]lla sup[er] h[oc] hesitat[i]o h[ab]eat[ur], p[re]sente[m] pagina[m] sigillo p[ro]p[ri]o [con]signav[i].
- Incipit (5th work): Ad ide[m] Ramu[n]d[us] v[er]o de p[re]d[i]c[t]a m[ateri]a sentit s[ic] [et] dicit.
- Explicit (5th work): ...dic i[n]disti[n]cte q[uod] deb[et] mane[re], q[uia] dolus alior[um] ut simplicitas voventis no[n] excusat i[n] talibus.
- The pastedown inside the back cover shows a liturgical calendar of German origin for July.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 18 (Ms. Latin 82).
- Berlow, Rosalind Kent. "Manuscript description: University of Pennsylvania ms. Latin 82" (August, 1979). Typescript in curatorial files.
- Publications about:
- The text for works 4 and 5 is published and discussed in Pennington, Kenneth. "A 'Consilium' of Johannes Teutonicus." Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion 26 (1970): [435]-440. Offprint from author in curatorial files.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 857.
- Contains:
- Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint, 1175?-1275. Summa de poenitentia et matrimonio.
- OCLC:
- 155918878
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subjec to staff review.
- Online:
- Collation model
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