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Libellus super electionibus faciendis et earum ordinandis Oversize Ms. Codex 729
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abstract

Two unbound quires from a work dealing with a section of canon law, with Mandagot's own gloss on his work and some details relating to the church at Toulouse, where the author was provost for a time.

Physical Description

Support: parchment; Extent: 24 leaves : 406 x 265 (335 x 225) mm; Collation: Parchment, 24; 2¹²; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 35-44 lines with commentary framing the main text.

Script

Written in a Gothic book script.

Decoration

Historiated initial of the author Guillaume de Mandagot teaching, with drollery of rabbit playing bagpipes (f. 1r); rubricated in red and blue, with decorated initials with penwork ornamentation in red and blue, in both text and commentary.

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.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from rubric (f. 1r).

Incipit: Venerabili viro discretione scientia et moribus...

Explicit: ...in eodem opere contulit sua ineffabili pietate sit benedictio et claritas sapientia et gratiarum actio honor virtus et fortitudo in secula seculorum, amen. Explicit libellus electionum editus a magistro Guillermo de Mandagote archidiacono Nemausis (f. 24r).

Same text as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 103.

Parchment is brittle, cracking along outer edges of some leaves.

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.

Keywords
14th century
Commentary
Illumination
French
France
Legal
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

France

Date

Written in France, possibly Avignon, in the early 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Provenance

Purchased, 1959.

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Place of Origin

France

Date

Written in France, possibly Avignon, in the early 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Provenance

Purchased, 1959.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Two unbound quires from a work dealing with a section of canon law, with Mandagot's own gloss on his work and some details relating to the church at Toulouse, where the author was provost for a time.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from rubric (f. 1r).

Incipit: Venerabili viro discretione scientia et moribus...

Explicit: ...in eodem opere contulit sua ineffabili pietate sit benedictio et claritas sapientia et gratiarum actio honor virtus et fortitudo in secula seculorum, amen. Explicit libellus electionum editus a magistro Guillermo de Mandagote archidiacono Nemausis (f. 24r).

Same text as that of UPenn Ms. Codex 103.

Parchment is brittle, cracking along outer edges of some leaves.

Script note

Written in a Gothic book script.

Decoration Note

Historiated initial of the author Guillaume de Mandagot teaching, with drollery of rabbit playing bagpipes (f. 1r); rubricated in red and blue, with decorated initials with penwork ornamentation in red and blue, in both text and commentary.

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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Keywords
14th century
Commentary
French
France
Legal
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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