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Constitutiones Clementinae (MS M.902).

Accession number
MS M.902
Object title
Constitutiones Clementinae (MS M.902).
Display Date
ca. 1350.
Created
Southern France, ca. 1350.
Binding
Original studded doeskin over original boards, worked to a geometrical pattern, with original clasps.
Credit line
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
Century
Classification