Novella super III, IV et V Decretalium.

In quinque decretalium libros novella commentaria. Book 3-5. (Robbins Ms. 19)

Novella super III, IV et V Decretalium.

Secundo folio: Hospicia commatrum.

[Germany], [between 1425 and 1450]

367 leaves : paper ; 410 x 290 (285 x 180) mm bound to 425 x 300 mm

This manuscript is a very tidy and neat copy of the commentary written by Giovanni d'Andrea on the Decretales of Boniface VIII. Since it does not have many marginal notes or additions, it was clearly not intended to be a working copy.

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper (watermark depicts a griffin, not in Briquet), fol. ii + 367 + ii; 1¹⁰ 2-21¹² 22¹⁰ 23-30¹² 31¹²⁻¹. No contemporary foliation. Modern foliation on some folios, such as 215, 260, 299, 300, and 300, all of which are numbered in pencil in 20th century hand. Catchwords in the bottom margin in the right corner, mostly written in a scroll. Quire numbering in the right corner of the bottom margin, with Arabic numerals from 1 to 12. Prickings visible in the lower margins, sometimes simple, sometimes double.
Layout: Written in two columns of 60-70 lines each. Wide margins. Frame-ruled in ink and dry point. Very few marginal notes.
Script: Written in a cursiva libraria gothic script by one hand.
Binding: Bound with blind tooled vellum over wooden boards, with brass corners and center pieces; parchment reinforcements at quire centers.
Origin: Written in Germany during the second quarter of the 15th century. The manuscript was copied by Iohannes Wydenvelt; the colophon on fol. 260r reads: "Explicit liber quartus Novelle domini Ioannis Andree per manus Iohanni Wydenvelt" and the one on fol. 367v reads: "Et sic est finis huius novelle per manus Iohannis Widenwelt." (cfr. Colophons 11851, sub voce Iohannes Weidenfeldt).
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 19.

Latin.

One of the early owners was Gabriele Verità of Verona, son of Benedetto, who had purchased it from a certain Marco Santagata: see the ownership note on fol. 367v: "Ista novella est mei Gabrielis filii domini Benedicti de Veritate de Verona Empta a domino Marco de Sancta Agata." Later, Gabriele became a Minorite friar and, in expiation of his sins, he bequeathed the book to the church of St. Bernard in Verona: see fol. 367v: "Hunc librum legavit Dominus Gabriel de Veritate nunc vero frater Gabriel ordinis Minorum observantie loco Sancti Bernardini Verone in remissionem suorum peccatorum." The manuscript was once in the R.H. Charlton collection, then recorded in the sale by Anderson (New York, 12 December 1914, no. 16) to G.D. Smith and in the sale by the American Art Society (New York, 24 February 1925, no. 439) to Dawson. It then became part of the collection of Mrs. Milton E. Getz of Beverly Hills, California. At some point the manuscript was in the library of Joseph M. Gleason (ex libris on bookplate inside front cover: a man in curial robes is writing at his working table; the motto, written in a scroll, reads: "Tamdiu discendum est quamdiu vivas"). It was acquired for the Robbins Collection in 1970. On inside front cover are glued 2 pieces of paper, possibly taken from bookdealers catalogues; another typed sheet of paper is pasted on flyleaf ir, with the description of the manuscript and the number "82551". On flyleaf ir, written in pencil by a 20th century hand: "Compilata. Decretale of Papa Boniface VIII. Glosses by Andrea."

Ioannes Andreae, In quinque Decretalium libros novella commentaria, 5 vols., Venetiis, apud Franciscum Franciscium Senensem, 1581; reprint, Torino, Bottega d'Erasmo, 1963.

RBCAG Robbins MS 19

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Robbins MS 19

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