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Detailed record for Royal 11 E II
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-221v |
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| Author |
Innocent IV |
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| Title |
Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium |
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| Origin |
Italy, N. (Bologna) |
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| Date |
1st quarter of the 14th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Artists |
Nerio (according to L'Engle) |
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| Decoration |
4 historiated initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of books (ff. 75v, 139, 179v, 187v). Foliate initials in colours, at the beginning of rubrics. Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
425 x 260 (325 x 175) |
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| Part 2 |
f. 1 |
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| Author |
Innocent IV |
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| Title |
Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium |
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| Origin |
Italy, N. (Bologna) |
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| Date |
2nd quarter of the 14th century |
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| Artists |
Related to Illustratore (according to L'Engle) |
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| Decoration |
1 added miniature in colours and gold with a full border, at the beginning of book 1 (f. 1). |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 221 (+ 1 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaf attached to a modern paper flyleaf and 2 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
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Parchment codex |
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Post-1600. Royal library binding of brown leather. |
| Provenance |
Colophon: 'Explicit opus pp innocencii quarti p[er]/ manus augustini. Amen. Finiti libro / mercedem peto laboris amen. amen' (f. 221v).
Inscribed 'Radulphus', 14th century (f. 1).
Added running titles for rubrics and marginal glosses, 14th-century English hand.
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 422' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 9 or 9v; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8402).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
According to unpublished notes of Susan L'Engle, decorated in two phases; phase I: c. 1310-1319 by Nerio (ff. 75v, 139, 179v, 187v); and phase II: c. 1330-1340 by an artist close to Illustratore (f. 1).
Catchwords, quire and bifolium signatures; instructions for rubrics; pecia marks. |
| 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, pp. 358-59.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H2.740. |
| Last revised: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
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Part 1
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f. 1
Innocent IV |
f. 139
Celebration of a mass |
f. 139
Celebration of a mass |
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Part 2
f. 1 |
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