Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
MS. 46
Lectura super clementina
Contents:
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Books I and II of the Lectures on the Constitutions of Pope Clement V
author:Paolo de Liazariis
extent:ff. 1r-22r
incipit:
BOnus vir sine deo nemo est
explicit:
hoc exempla haberi (finis secundi libri)
decoration:Throughout the text, 3- and 4-line alternating red and blue initials introduce sections of a given book of the commentary. On f. 1r, a 10-line tall B opens Book 1 of the commentary. In the letter box, the external borders of the letter are in gold-leaf with a black border around the gold. Flourishes off the stem of the B are pale green, red and pale blue; all are embellished with white filigree. In the interior of the B, a human figure is dressed as a Bolognese doctor in a pale green tunic with red robes visible on his front and back. He wears a black cap on his head and a white turreted collar around his neck. The background is a dark greenish-blue or teal.
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Glosa super .c. ex parte extra de confessis
author:Paolo de Liazariis
extent:ff. 22r-23r
rubric:
ista glosa est super .c. ex parte extra de confessis.
incipit:
De confessis Rubrica continuare
explicit:
quid ecclesia paulus de liaziariis
decoration:One 3-line D with blue body and red flourish opens the gloss.
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De ordine cogitationum
extent:ff. 23v-23bv (the unnumbered folium between 23 and 24)
rubric:
Rubrica de ordine cogitacionum
incipit:
Super spoliacione casus
explicit:
non expers indis trini?dusinger?que coloris melancolicus
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Books III, IV, and V of the Lectures on the Constitutions of Pope Clement V
author:Paolo de Liazariis
extent:ff. 24r-49r
rubric:
de vita et honestate clericorum
incipit:
Dyocesanis punit clericos
explicit:
Paulus de liazaris decretorum doctor egregius
decoration:Throughout the text, 3- and 4-line alternating red and blue initials introduce sections of a given book of the commentary. On f. 24r, a 10-line tall uncial D opens Book 3 of Paul's commentary. The outsides of the letter body are done in gold-leaf with a black border. The marginal extensions off of the horizontal stem of the D are pale green with white filigree and a small section of red on the lower extension. Three gold dots bordered in black surround the letter-box. A human figure very similar to that in f. 1r inhabits the lobe. His hat is slightly different: a striped white and green cap is topped with a red doctor's hat. The background is blue.
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De probatione
extent:f. 49r
incipit:
Viso de probatione
explicit:
contra excepcionem peccati de non
decoration:Two 3-line decorated initials are present.
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Table of Rubrics for the Lectura
extent:f. 49v
incipit:
De summa trinitate--ii.
explicit:
De uerborum sygnificacione
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Table or Index
extent:f. 49v, cols. 2, 3, and 4
incipit:
Actus lecture?
explicit:
vtile non debet.--xiiii.
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Unknown Legal Text
extent:f. 49v, col. 3
incipit:
[-]riam sibi conperentem nihil ex quo
explicit:
Iohannes .an. decretorum doctor andreas de suchdol
decoration:One 1-line red paraph is seen.
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Unknown theological text
extent:ff. 50r-50v
incipit:
prepositus est libellus?
explicit:
uiuit in secula seculorum amen
decoration:One-line paraphs alternate in red and blue.
Date of origin:After 1321.
Place of origin: Bologna, Italy
Support:
Parchment codex.
Foliation:
Medieval foliation in Roman numerals is observed in the top-center of each recto. Folia 1-23 are numbered correctly, but 24 is not numbered at all. Thus, from f. 24 to f. 43, the medieval numbering is one behind the actual numbering. The numbering then skips 44, going from 43 to 45; thus the numbering from f. 45 to the end of the manuscript is correct.
Dimensions:460mm x 280mm (leaves), 347mm x 202mm (ruled space)
Collation:i 110 24 3-510 66 i Catchwords are present and correct on the last verso of quires 1, 2, 4, and 5 Quire 3 ends with the last folium not numbered and a textual insertion in a different hand.
Script:The manuscript is written chiefly in an Italian Gothic rotunda in the bononiensis style with some cursive additions. Hand #1, the main hand is responsible for the whole of the text of Paolo's commentary on The Clementines. Hand #2 is a gothic cursiva currens hand that has written on the few blank folia left by Hand #1 (ff. 23v-23b and 50r-v). The last four hands all make brief appearances on the recto and verso of fol. 49, after the formal end of Clement V's Constitutions.
Binding:Brown Spanish morocco of the 15th century, elaborately blind-tooled in a panel pattern with mudejar ornamentation; remains of clasps.
Additions:In the main text body, numerous annotative hands (approximately 15) are visible on the folia. A later gothic hand has written headings for the texts on given folia in the top-right corner for every folium except 22, 23, 23b, 49, and 50. Several hands with fingers pointing to particular texts are visible throughout beginning on ff. 4r-v. Some marginal annotations are corrections, typically signaled with some siglum; other corrections can be seen in the text, usually as write-overs on top of rub-outs.
Bibliography:Hammerling, Roy. Manuscript 46--Lectura super Clementinis. Unpublished paper in Notre Dame Special Collections file on MS 46. 1989.
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