Accession number
MS M.561
Object title
Commentaries on the Decretales Gregorii IX and the Noue consitutiones of Innocent IV.
Created
Germany, between 1250 and 1275.
Binding
19th century pastiche, assembled for Guillaume Libri by Alexis Berg (who signed a triptych at the Metropolitan Museum of Art); red velvet over heavy boards, with upper cover of metal decorated with filigree work; set with semi-precious jewels and intaglios; sunk into center is a 13th century ivory depicting the Nativity; a strip of cloisonné enamel is below.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1905 or 1906.
Description
175 leaves (1 column, 25-26 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 169 x 115 mm
Provenance
Owned by Guillaume Libri; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 1862, lot 321) to Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps collection, no. 16396); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), perhaps from Quaritch, in 1905 or 1906; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. canon law commentaries; written and illuminated in Germany in the third quarter of the 13th century [dated verbally by Alison Stones 6/9/99].
Texts: alphabetical tables (fol. 1v-26v); Casus ab omnibus canonum custodiri constituta (fol. 27v-169); Casus si quis impugnans (fol. 169-173v); a summula on legacies and a noncanonic text (fol. 174-175).
Decoration: 6 illuminated initials, one with two monks' heads.
Texts: alphabetical tables (fol. 1v-26v); Casus ab omnibus canonum custodiri constituta (fol. 27v-169); Casus si quis impugnans (fol. 169-173v); a summula on legacies and a noncanonic text (fol. 174-175).
Decoration: 6 illuminated initials, one with two monks' heads.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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