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Detailed record for Royal 10 D VIII
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-343v |
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| Author |
Gratian, glossed by Bartholomew of Brescia |
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| Title |
Decretum, with the Glossa ordinaria |
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| Origin |
France, S. and Central (Paris?) |
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| Date |
3rd quarter of the 13th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic, written below top line |
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| Artists |
Bari Atelier |
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| Decoration |
38 miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning of each causa, and parts 1 and 3 (ff. 1, 82v, 102v, 119v, 127, 128v, 130v, 133v, 139v, 142v, 145, 148, 159v, 169v, 173v, 176, 180v, 193v, 197, 199v, 201, 203, 205v, 212v, 234v, 245, 249, 255v, 262v, 266, 267, 270, 272, 280, 308, 309, 315v, 316v). Foliate initials in colours and gold with dragons and marginal extensions, at the beginning of major text and gloss divisions. Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in blue. Running titles and chapter numbers in red and blue. Display script with cadels and first letters of sentences highlighted in yellow. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
440 x 260 (270 x 130; 330/410 x 230) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. 345-348v |
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| Author |
Bartholomew of Brescia |
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| Title |
Historiae super libro Decretalium |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
2nd half of 13th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic, written below top line |
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| Decoration |
Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Distinction numbers in the margins in red and blue. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
440 x 260 (365 x 200) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. ii + 349 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf attached to a modern paper flyleaf at the beginning, ff. i, ii, 249 are medieval parchment flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
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Post-1600. Royal library binding of brown leather. |
| Provenance |
Added glosses in English hand, 14th century.
Howel Kyffin, probably to be identified with the dean of St Aspah (1381-1384): inscribed 'nota r[e]ductiones ystoria[rum] decreto[rum] s[ecun]d[u]m Barth[olomeum] Brix[iensem]. Howel Kyffin' (f. 345).
Inscribed 'Cowley: / Qui timet deu[m] faciet bonum', 15th century (similar inscription in Royal 6 D VII) (ff. ii, 349).
Letter of a prior of Belvoir, a cell of St Albans to the prior of St Albans, now Royal 14 B LI, found in the manuscript, late 15th century.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 984' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 9, 9v, or 10; and in the catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8373 or 8386).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
Illuminated by the artist of Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 830, a Missal for Paris use, and Giessen, Universitatsbibliothek 945, Justinian's Codex in French, both attributed by Robert Branner to the Bari Atelier (see Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977), p. 229).
Catchwords, bifolium signatures and correction notes 'cor in ap.' (e.g., ff. 24v, 336v), and 'cor in tex.', 'cor in textu' (e.g., ff. 180v, 204v, 336v), or 'non c[om]plet[u]r' (e.g., ff. 218v, 312v, 336v) in the lower margins of the last leaf of a quire. Instructions for the running titles. |
| Select bibliography |
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, p. 332.
Stephan Kuttner, Repertorium der Kanonistik, 1140-1234: Prodromus corporis glossarum (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1937), p. 106.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.984.
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 106 [exhibition catalogue]. |
| Last revised: 17 January 2011 |
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Part 1
ff. 1-343v |
| Gratian, glossed by Bartholomew of Brescia Decretum, with the Glossa ordinaria |
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f. 1
King |
f. 1
King |
f. 82v
Boy received into a monastery |
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f. 82v
Boy received into a monastery |
f. 102v
Bishop degraded |
f. 119v
Bishop restored |
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f. 127
Accusation of a bishop |
f. 128v
Pope and three bishops |
f. 130v
Bishop as judge |
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f. 133v
Pope, litigant bishops and advisers |
f. 139v
Dying bishop |
f. 142v
Bishop substituting a priest |
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f. 145
Judgement |
f. 148
Clerk disputing with laymen |
f. 159v
Dying clerk |
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f. 169v
Two laymen and a cleric |
f. 173
Judge and plaintiffs |
f. 176
Clerk and a woman |
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f. 180v
Abbot and monks |
f. 193v
Ill clerk |
f. 197
Abbot and litigant bishops |
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f. 199v
Clerks and bishop |
f. 201
Two novices |
f. 203
Clerks before judges |
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f. 205v
Clerks before judges |
f. 212v
Bishop and plaintiffs |
f. 234v
Bishop depriving a priest |
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f. 245
Bishop as judge |
f. 249
Bishop and litigants |
f. 255v
Marriage ceremony |
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f. 262v
Marriage ceremony |
f. 266
Marriage ceremony |
f. 267
Baptism of an infant |
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f. 270
Widow |
f. 272
Marriage ceremony |
f. 280
Judge and a man and wife |
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f. 308
Pilgrim and his wife |
f. 309
Widower |
f. 315v
Young man and woman |
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f. 316v
Consecration of a church |
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