Liber sextus Decretalium cum glossa Iohannis Andree.

Liber sextus Decretalium. (Robbins Ms. 32)

Liber sextus Decretalium cum glossa Iohannis Andree.

Secundo folio: Et sub debitis titulis.

[Italy], [between 1350 and 1375]

109 leaves : parchment ; 440 x 280 (360 x 210) mm bound to 450 x 285 mm
1 microfilm reel : negative and positive (Robbins MS 32)

This preciously illuminated manuscript of the Liber sextus with the gloss of Giovanni d'Andrea was apparently also a working copy, since it has many additions and marginal and interlinear notes, both related to the main text and to the gloss. On the flyleaves ii and iii, now numbered as fol. 1 and 2, there are some extensive notes taken from the Liber sextus in a contemporary textualis currens script, and a "versus" and some "exempla" against the Black Friars. The first extensive note is signed: "Io. de Bor." which could possibly refer to the 14th cetury canonist Iohannes de Borbonio.

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + ii-iii (parchment) + 109 + i (modern paper); 1² 2-10¹⁰ 11-12⁸ 13²⁻¹. No contemporary foliation is provided; modern foliation in pencil, in Arabic numerals, in the right corner of the upper margin. Signature marks on the first half of each quire, with red symbols. Catchwords in the middle of the bottom margins.
Layout: Both the text and the gloss are arranged on two columns of various length; the gloss surrounds the text and can have up to 90 lines for each columnn. Ruled in lead. Large use of line fillers, both at the end of the line and at the end of the page.
Script: Written in a textualis libraria script, close to the "littera bononiensis", apparently by one hand. Below top line.
Decoration: Many illuminated initials, mostly on 3 or 4 lines, throughout the text. Fol. 3r, the upper half of the large 10-line illuminated initial, showing Boniface VIII, has torn and replaced with a piece of parchment; fol. 5r, a priest blessing with his hand; fol. 10v, a bird; fol. 28r, 30v, 31v, 34r, 37v, 38r, 39v, 43r, 46r, 46v, 47r, 50v, 62r, 67v, 69r, 70r, 72v, 74v, 75v, 84v, 86r, 89v, 99v, 108v, men's heads; fol. 69v, a nun's head with a veil; fol. 54r, 62r, 67v, a pope's head (Boniface VIII); fol. 41v, 77v, ivy leaves; fol. 10v, a bird; fol. 39v, two animals (dogs? foxes?); fol. 72v, a dragon; fol. 78r, a man pointing his finger; fol. 86v, 98r, a blossom. The main colours used are blue, gold, orange, pink, green, sometimes black. Fol. 103r, a large 17-line red and blue penworked initial. Many red and violet, and blue and red pen flourishing initials throughout the text, mostly on 2 lines. Alternating red and blue paragraph signs. Red and blue running titles in the upper margin. Red rubrics. Many "maniculae" and grotesques.
Binding: 14th century, original goatskin over wooden boards, blindstamped, partly restored; four new clasps and metal corner pieces. Modern paper flyleaves.
Origin: Written and decorated in Italy, in the third quarter of the 14th century.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 32.

Latin.

Liber sextus decretalium D. Bonifacii Papae VIII suae integritati una cum Clementinis et Extrauagantibus, earumque glossis restitutus cum priuilegio Gregorii XIII. Pont. Max. et aliorum principum, Romae, In Aedibus Populi Romani, 1584.

RBCAG Robbins MS 32

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Robbins MS 32

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