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Treatises of Canon law, Pierre d'Ailly, Nicholas Oresme
Title
Treatises of Canon law, Pierre d'Ailly, Nicholas Oresme.
Created
Flanders, [between 1450 and 1500]
Physical Description
ff. ii + 144 + i : paper ; 215 x 150 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Watermark: similar to Briquet 1474 (?).
Script: Copied by 3 hands: Scribe 1 copied ff. 1r-54r in Gothica Hybrida Libraria marked by the use of looped d and one-stroke x; scribe 2 copied ff. 54v-57r in Gothica Cursiva Currens; scribe 3 copied ff. 61r-143r in Gothica Hybrida Libraria under slight Humanistic influence.
Headings in red or underlined in red. Heightening of majuscules in red. Red paragraph marks. Plain initials in red (2- or 3-lines, not executed on f. 100r); on f. 1r blank foliage has been spared in the initial's body. Guide-letters in the space reserved for the initials.
Binding: Original brown calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with fillets and the following small stamps: a square two-headed eagle, a square lion rampant, a square bird and a floweret. At the top of the front cover the title in ink (ca. 1500) "Contra novos Hebreos". Remains of two decorated brass clasps, attached to the rear cover. Spine with four raised bands. White parchment paste-downs. Parchment tabs pasted on the outer edge of ff. 54 and 94; others are lost.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Albert Derolez.
Provenance
Purchased 1973 from Gilhofer and Ranschburg on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on paper of an unidentified dissertation on dispensation from prescriptions of natural or divine law; an unidentified dissertation on the worldly possessions of the clergy and their legitimate employment; Iohannes de Lisura, anonymous opinion in response to a consultation by the city of Lille on the legality of investing the money of minors at interest; and fragments of several texts by Pierre d'Ailly and Nicholas Oresme.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2010
References
Treatises of Canon Law. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Treatises of Canon Law. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Flanders (Belgium) - 15th century.
Dissertations - Flanders (Belgium) - 15th century.
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