Constitutiones Clementinae

Accession number: 
MS M.902
Title: 
Constitutiones Clementinae
Created: 
Southern France, ca. 1350.
Binding: 
Original studded doeskin over original boards, worked to a geometrical pattern, with original clasps.
Credit: 
Gift of the Fellows, 1961.
Description: 
57 leaves (4 columns, varying number of lines), bound : vellum ; 465 x 303 mm
Provenance: 
Marginal annotations in a 15th-century Spanish hand, numerous notes in Spanish; purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt, and gift of the Fellows in 1961.
Notes: 

Ms. canon law, written in southern France, ca. 1350.
Texts: Constitutiones Clementinae (fols. 3r-54r) and the glossa ordinaria of Giovanni d'Andrea (fols. 3r-55r). Marginal glosses of Paulus de Liazariis, Guillelmus de Monte Lauduno, Jesselinus de Cassanhis, and "Abbas" have been added; a later scribe has copied three extravagantes on fols. 55r-57r; Dat vivendi normam of John XXII, Extrav. Jo. XXII 8, and Extrav. Comm. 3.10 un. Indexes of titles and chapters of the Liber Extra on fols. 1v-2v; Tituli Clementinarum on fol. 57v.
Constitutiones Clementinae consists of church legislation of pope Clement V selected and promulgated as a collection in 1317 by pope John XXII.
Musical notation: 4-line staves with musical notation in a Spanish hand on folio 58r.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
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