Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries

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Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.13.3

Innocent IV, Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium

Contents

Language(s): Latin

2r-257r
Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium Innocent IV
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: 2r: Legitur in ezechiele venter tuus comedet
Explicit: 257r: consue in principio
Final rubric: 257r: Explicit summa Innocentii iiiiti cum omnibus addicionibus. Accessi porcium quo mihi cursus erant

Physical Description

Secundo Folio: 2r: Legitur in ezechiele
Secundo Folio: 3r: -sentibus. Item
Form: codex
Support: Parchment (FHHF)
Extent: Codex: i + 256 + ii leaves. The manuscript contains three stubs after the front pastedown and three stubs before the rear pastedown. The first and last are of parchment, the first blank and the last bearing writing on both sides. The rest are of paper and are blank. See Foliation. 375 × 245 mm.
Foliation:

20th-century foliation

1 + 2-257 + 259-260

Written in pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos by an unidentified hand of the 20th century (probably first half). Folio number 258 assigned to the second of two stubs between ff. 257 and 259. It has not been photographed. The first stub is of paper, blank, and unfoliated. The second is of parchment and bears fragments of writing by a 16th/17th-century hand. A further fragment, apparently from the same source, is now f. 263. The three stubs at the beginning have not been foliated, however the three at the end have been (ff. 261-263). The first three are therefore assigned the folio designations of [i]-[iii] for the purposes of the display here.

Collation

Twenty-six quires, mainly of 12 leaves, with several quires of 10, 8 or 6 leaves, plus two of a single bifolium each.

  • Quires 1-28 (ff. 2-17)
  • Quires 3-510 (ff. 18-47)
  • Quires 6-1012 (ff. 48-107)
  • Quire 118 (ff. 108-115)
  • Quires 12-1612 (ff. 116-175)
  • Quires 17-186 (ff. 176-187)
  • Quire 192 (ff. 188-189)
  • Quire 2012 (ff. 190-201v)
  • Quire 212 (ff. 202-203
  • Quire 2210 (ff. 204-213)
  • Quires 23-2512 (ff. 214-249)
  • Quire 268 (ff. 250-257)

1-28 3-510 6-1012 118 12-1612 17-186 192 2012 212 2210 23-2512 268

Leaf signatures in Roman numerals or horizontal bars, with no differentiation between quires.

No quire signatures.

 Catchwords, usually enclosed in a box or similar ornamentation; occasionally trimmed.

Layout

280-290 × 170 mm. Ruled in leadpoint, frame and line. Two columns, 73-78 lines to the page, written below top line.

Hand(s)

Written in littera textualis.

Decoration

Sixteen-line initial behind a column miniature of Innocent IV, enthroned and holding a book, blessing a cardinal and two tonsured clerks, one kneeling with hands on the book (f. 2r).

Spaces for column miniatures and initials left blank at the beginning of Books Two-Five (ff. 88r, 153r, 204v, 214v).

Eleven-line initial in pink, with foiage infill on gold and blue ground, set against purple ground within a gold frame (f. 2r, Book One).

Three- or four-line initials in blue or red, with red or purple flourishes, for causae.

Two- or three-line initials in blue or red, with red or purple florishes, for chapters.

Large quantity of marginal decoration, sketched in ink, comprising zoomorphic and floral motifs (f. 91r), scenes (ff. 188r, 189r), human faces, figures and grotesques (e.g. ff. 164v, 186r, 198r), occasionally touched in red ink, extending from cadel-like ascenders and descenders in the upper and lower margins, filling in capitals and framing catchwords and captions, often referring to their content (e.g. ff. 138r, 152r, 157r).

Additions

Large quantity of marginal content markers, notes and glosses, throughout.

Four static page markers, comprising pieces of parchment adhered to the fore-edge of the leaves, coinciding with the opening of Books Two-Five.

Binding

Full speckled calf with blind-tooled rectangular frame and foliage frieze along the inner margin (17th-century).

Rebacked by J.P. Gray and Son of Cambridge, 1959.

History

Origin: Second quarter of the 14th century. ; France.

Provenance and Acquisition

'Iste liber est Carthusiensem prope Magunciam' (f. 256v): Carthusian monastery of St Michael (originally St Peter), Mainz. Inscription written by a later 14th / early 15th-century hand.

One of the manuscripts of Richard Holdsworth (1590-1649), Master of Emmanuel College .

Acquired by the University Library in July 1664: no. 32 in the inventory of Holdsworth's manuscripts compiled by William Crowe (MS Ff.4.27 / Dd.8.45).

Additional Information

Record Sources

This catalogue entry draws on the description provided by Paul Binski and Patrick Zutshi, with the collaboration of Stella Panayotova, Western Illuminated Manuscripts: A Catalogue of the Collection in Cambridge University Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) (used here by kind permission of Cambridge University Press).

Availability

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Bibliography

    A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the library of the University of Cambridge, (Cambridge, 1: Dd, Cambridge University Press, 1856) Die bibliothek der ehemaligen Mainzer Kartause: die handschriften und ihre geschichte Beiheft zum Zentralblatt für bibliothekswesen, Schreiber, Heinrich (Leipzig, O. Harrassowitz, 1927) Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz. Ergänzungsband, Krämer, Sigrid (München, Beck, 1989)

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