Summa fratris Bartholomei de Sancto Concorida de Pisiis ordinis Predicato[rum] sacre pagine professoris in q[ua] tractat de casibus conscientie ; Confessionale fratris Ioh[ann]is Theotonici ordinis Predicato[rum] adiunctum de novo summe confessorum.

Summa de casibus conscientiae. (Robbins Ms. 135)

Summa fratris Bartholomei de Sancto Concorida de Pisiis ordinis Predicato[rum] sacre pagine professoris in q[ua] tractat de casibus conscientie ; Confessionale fratris Ioh[ann]is Theotonici ordinis Predicato[rum] adiunctum de novo summe confessorum.

[Italy], [between 1390 and 1425]

237 leaves : parchment ; 220 x 144 (141 x 112) mm bound to 230 x 166 mm

This manuscript comprises two major Dominican treatises on canon law: the first is the "Summa de casibus conscientiae" written by Bartolomew of San Concordio; the second text is the "Confessionale" of Johannes Friburgensis. The manuscript is signed by the scribe, named Guilgelmus, fol. 211 [i.e.215]r: "Qui scripsit scribat semper cum Domino vivat. Vivat in celis Guilgelmus domino Felix." The subscription could be compared with the one in Benedictins, Colophons 5738. Marginal flourishes and annotations.

Ms. codex.
First title from opening rubric on fol. 1r; second title from opening rubric on fol. 215 [i.e. 220]r.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (modern paper) + 237 + ii (modern paper); 1-21¹⁰ 22¹⁰⁽⁻¹⁰⁾ 23¹⁰ 24⁸; quires 5, 8-23 signed; horizontal catchwords enclosed in black and red flourishes. Modern 20th-century foliation in pencil in the upper corner on recto (these modern folio numbers are inaccurate).
Layout: Written in two columns of 45 lines; ruled in lead. Prickings still visible in the lower margin.
Script: Written in a textualis libraria script, with cursive elements and very close to the humanistic script, by one scribe. Above top line.
Decoration: Fol. 1r, a large 10-line, illuminated, historiated initial shows Bartolomew of San Concordio in a Dominican habit half length, facing sideways and holding a red book. The whole fol. 1r is framed with full illuminated border, painted leafy extensions and gold bezants with whiskery penwork; fol. 215, 6-line istoriated initial: the potrait of the author, in Dominican habit holding a red quill, is inscribed in the letter. Many illuminated 4-line initials throughout the text, painted in different shades of pink, blue, green, yellow. Many 3-line initials blue penworked in pink and red penworked in pink throughout the text. Red and blue alternated paragraph marks. Red rubrics.
Origin: Written in Central Italy, possibly not far from Urbino, at the very end of the 14th century or during the first quarter of the 15th.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 135.

Latin.

Formerly in the collection of the Dominican convent of San Donato, near Urbino: on fol. 232 there is an ownership note by a 15th century hand which reads: "Loci Sancti Donati prope Urbinum". On fol. 232v, there is the number "20041" written in brown ink, possibly by a former owner. On fol. 1r there is a smudged ownership mark, no longer legible.

Bound in modern red morocco over pasteboard; gilt-tooled edges; gilt page edges; gilt-tooled title on spine, "A Summa de casibus conscientiae -- Confessionale"; ribbon book mark. The binding was made by Marcelin Lortic, whose name "M. Lortic" is gilt tooled on inside front cover.

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL: Use of original only by permission. Inquiries concerning this item should be directed, in writing, to the reference librarian for The Robbins Collection.

Italy.

Robbins MS 135

Latin