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Handbook of canon law and pastoral theology for parish priests (f. 1r-177v). It appears to be a reworking of an earlier manual (circa 1320) by William of Pagula. Part and chapter numbers are written in the upper outer corners, and subsections of chapters are marked with marginal letters in alphabetical order, a through z, then aa-az, ba-bz if necessary (for example, f. 68v). Followed by an alphabetical register (tabula) for the work (f. 178r-193v), which references the chapter section letters.
Support: parchment; Extent: 193 leaves : 253 x 182 (194 x 143) mm bound to 265 x 190 mm; Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 193 + i (modern paper); 1-7¹², 8¹⁰, 9-14¹², 15¹²(-1), 16¹², 17⁴; [1-193]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Remnants of trimmed signatures in red ink visible in the lower right recto corner of a few leaves, for example in quire 2 (f. 13r, 14r), quire 9 (f. 99r), and quire 11 (f. 119r). Catchwords in an enlarged Gothic textualis script, lower right of last verso of each quire, in a decorative border. The catchword at the bottom of f. 130v does not match the first words of f. 131r; this suggests that a quire may be missing. Link to collation model at end of record.
Written in 2 columns of 45 lines.
Written in Gothic cursive script with the first line of each chapter in Gothic textualis, by a single hand.
7-line initial in blue and red with penwork ornamentation and decorated border (f. 1r). Blue initials with red and blue ornamentation, paragraph markers and rubrication found throughout.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title from spine and explicit (f. 177v). The author's name is given on the spine and in the Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue as John de Burgh.
Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Humane condicio nature iam senescente mundo de cursu temptoris [sic] continue vergens ... (f. 177v) Et sic tractatus ite [sic] sub denario numero partium terminatur.
Welsh ownership notes and an abraded ownership note at the end of the volume (f. 193v).
On file in the Library is a three-page description of the manuscript and discussion of its contents by Peter Collins and Ruth J. Dean of the University of Pennsylvania, dated May 1974. It is accompanied by photographs and materials describing the cathedral of St. Deiniol in Bangor, Wales.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
England or Wales
Written in England or Wales in the first quarter of the 15th century.
20th-century American olive cloth over cardboard (rebound after 1978 for the Lea Library, University of Pennsylvania); formerly 19th-century vellum over thin boards (Collins and Dean).
Latin
Formerly owned by the church of St. Deiniol (cathedral) in Bangor, Wales, 15th century (Hic liber pertinet ad ecclesie sancti dainellio, f. 193v).
Formerly owned in the 17th or 18th century by Hugh Roberts (signature dated 1672, f. 89r; partial signature, f. 193r); Charles Hurleston (partial signature, f. 12v; signature, f. 158v-159r; related family note "John Hurleston, Not his Booke, 1690," f. 36v); and Thomon Simon Jones (signature, f. 158v) or Simon Jones (signature, f. 168r).
Sold by bookseller Thomas Kerslake (Bristol) to Sir Thomas Phillipps, no. 20547, 1858 (Phillipps note, f. ii recto).
Sold at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London) in Part 7 of the sale of manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 20 March 1895, lot 106, to bookseller James and Mary Lee Tregaskis (London).
Purchased by Henry Charles Lea, 1896 (signature, f, ii recto).
Acquired by the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.
England or Wales
Written in England or Wales in the first quarter of the 15th century.
Latin
Formerly owned by the church of St. Deiniol
Formerly owned in the 17th or 18th century by Hugh Roberts
Sold by bookseller Thomas Kerslake
Sold at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Purchased by Henry Charles Lea, 1896
Acquired by the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.
Handbook of canon law and pastoral theology for parish priests (f. 1r-177v). It appears to be a reworking of an earlier manual (circa 1320) by William of Pagula. Part and chapter numbers are written in the upper outer corners, and subsections of chapters are marked with marginal letters in alphabetical order, a through z, then aa-az, ba-bz if necessary (for example, f. 68v). Followed by an alphabetical register (tabula) for the work (f. 178r-193v), which references the chapter section letters.
Ms. codex.
Title from spine and explicit (f. 177v). The author's name is given on the spine and in the Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue as John de Burgh.
Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Humane condicio nature iam senescente mundo de cursu temptoris [sic] continue vergens ... (f. 177v) Et sic tractatus ite [sic] sub denario numero partium terminatur.
Welsh ownership notes and an abraded ownership note at the end of the volume (f. 193v).
On file in the Library is a three-page description of the manuscript and discussion of its contents by Peter Collins and Ruth J. Dean of the University of Pennsylvania, dated May 1974. It is accompanied by photographs and materials describing the cathedral of St. Deiniol in Bangor, Wales.
Written in Gothic cursive script with the first line of each chapter in Gothic textualis, by a single hand.
7-line initial in blue and red with penwork ornamentation and decorated border (f. 1r). Blue initials with red and blue ornamentation, paragraph markers and rubrication found throughout.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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