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Notre Dame/Newberry MS. 4

Liber sextus decretalium

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Liber sextus decretalium

extent:ff. 1r-176v

rubric: Incipit sextus liber in anno domini mo cco lxxxxvii

incipit: Bonifacius episcopus seruus seruorum dei dilectis filiis

explicit: ad implere. Idem

decoration:On f. 1r 4-line blue initial B with red infill and red and blue marginal flourishes at the beginning of the text. Alternating red and blue two line initials and red and blue paraph marks throughout text.

note:The manuscript has been misbound. Gatherings 17 and 18, ff. 129-142, should have been bound at the end as they resume the text that ends abruptly halfway down the first column on f. 176v. The text ends abruptly at Liber V, Titulum XI, Caput XXII on f. 142v.

Date of origin:First half of the fourteenth century.

Place of origin: Tours, France

Support: Parchment codex

Foliation: Paginated in lead in a modern hand in the upper outer corner of each side of each leaf. Errors in pagination are frequent.

Dimensions:268 mm x 186mm (leaves), 131 mm x 79mm (ruled space)

Collation: 1-17⁸ 18⁶ 19-22⁸ 23² Catchwords apparent on all gatherings except 16, 18, 19, 21 Catchwords written horizontally in the lower right hand corner of the verso of the final leaf of each gathering, except for #17 where it is written vertically in the middle of the bottom of the last leaf.

Script:Written in a gothic book script of medium quality in at least four hands.

Binding:Bound in later vellum over stiff cardboard.

Additions:Occasional additions and corrections throughout in several later hands.

Provenance:Ms ex libris in 16th century hand of Guillaume Sohier. The manuscript is jointly owned with the Newberry Library and shelved at the Newberry as MS. 177.

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