Extracts from Canon Law texts, in Latin, manuscript on paper

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

36 leaves (3 blank), 283mm. by 219mm., missing leaves from beginning and end, collation: i^{10, ii^{8, iii^{2, iv^{8, v^{8, foliated somewhat erratically in contemporary hand (94-110, 101, two indecipherable numbers, 113-17, 103A-10A; and followed here), written space approximately 234mm. by 137mm., double column, 59-62 lines, in dark brown / black ink in a cursive hand, watermark Briquet, no. 11702 (Pisa, c.1440), some water damage to outer edges of leaves and some edges crumbling in lower inner margin, in nineteenth-century card binding}}}}}

Catalogue Note

This manuscript is in the same hand and on paper with the same watermark as the previous lot, and must also be the product of the education of a fifteenth-century Italian student, perhaps attending the University of Pisa. Here his detailed and comprehensive notes cover certain areas of canon law, and include discussions of the Church's immunity from secular law (fol.99v), consanguinity (100v), usury (109Ar), De Herecicis Multorum or the various forms of heretics (103Av), and perhaps most interestingly De Iudeis et Saracenis Cunisie or the Jews and the Tunisian-Saracens (102r & 103Av). He discusses in some detail the opinions of an early fourteenth-century jurist, Oldradus de Ponte, on doing business with Jews and Turks.