Accession number:
MS M.561
Title:
Commentary
Created:
Germany, between 1250 and 1275.
Binding:
19th century pastiche, assembled for Guillaume Libri by Alexis Berg (who signed a triptych at the Metropolitan Museum of Art); red velvet over heavy boards, with upper cover of metal decorated with filigree work; set with semi-precious jewels and intaglios; sunk into center is a 13th century ivory depicting the Nativity; a strip of cloisonné enamel is below.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1905 or 1906.
Description:
175 leaves (1 column, 25-26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 169 x 115 mm
Provenance:
Owned by Guillaume Libri; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 1862, lot 321) to Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps collection, no. 16396); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), perhaps from Quaritch, in 1905 or 1906; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. canon law commentaries; written and illuminated in Germany in the third quarter of the 13th century [dated verbally by Alison Stones 6/9/99].
Texts: alphabetical tables (fol. 1v-26v); Casus ab omnibus canonum custodiri constituta (fol. 27v-169); Casus si quis impugnans (fol. 169-173v); a summula on legacies and a noncanonic text (fol. 174-175).
Decoration: 6 illuminated initials, one with two monks' heads.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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