Lot 23
  • 23

Commentary on Canon Law text, manuscript in Latin on paper

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

24 leaves (5 blank), 282mm. by 209mm., apparently complete, collation: i14, ii10, foliated in contemporary hand in upper right-hand corner 59-82, written space approximately 208mm. by 130mm., single column, 32-41 lines, in dark brown / black ink in a cursive hand, watermark close to Briquet, nos.2750 (Rome, 1347) and 2757 (Florence, 1427), some water damage to outer edges of leaves and some edges crumbling in same place as previous lot, perhaps once part of a single volume, in nineteenth-century card binding

Catalogue Note

This manuscript is perhaps in the same hand as the previous lot, and the damage to the bottom of the leaves suggests that it was once part of the same volume. Thus, it must also be the product of the education of the fifteenth-century Italian student, who may have attended the University of Pisa. Here he copies out a commentary on a canon law text identified on the initial folio as De Iudiciis, and extensively cites the works of the canonist Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400), and the glossators of canon law, Vincent of Spain (c. 1240) and Johann Andrea (c.1350), who wrote the glosses ordinaria of the Liber sextus and the Clementina