ff. 1-205v. [Martin of Troppau. Margarita Decreti]. Prologue, f. 1: Inter alia que ad fidelium christi doctrinam scripta sunt ius canonicum ad ipsorum doctrinam et consolacionem conscriptum reperitur ... Hoc opusculum inchoans ab a prima littera usque ad extremam litteram alphabeti deduxi. Ipso iuvante qui est principium et finis regnans in secula seculorum benedictus. [Following the end of the prologue without break:] Insuper dignetur perscrutare huiusmodi lector solicite me inter minores minimum Sextum decretalium et clementinas modo et forma quo ut supra presenti tabule circa cuiuslibet decretalis finem ordinarie inservisse. Circa annos domini Mo ccco xcvi anno postremo lecturatus missiensis ad laudem omnipotentis dei eius matris benedicte ac sancti francisci confessoris. Incipit: Aaron sacerdotium approbatur d. xxii sacrosancta .... Explicit: ... tunc angeli colligent zizaniam in fasciculos ad colligendum frumentum xxiii q. i paragrapho i in fine xxxiii q. iii Quantus. Margarita decreti by Martinus, Polonus (i.e. Martin of Troppau) written in Germany in the third quarter of the fifteenth century; bound after Vocabularius juris utriusque. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1481 (RB 73098). Span folios: ff 1-205 verso. Paper. Layout: Collation including f. i: 1-16¹² 17¹²(-12) 18⁶(-3 through 6). 2 columns of 48 lines ruled in dry point. Watermark(s): Coeur similar to Briquet 4293, Hirschberg 1474. Written in littera currens. Other Decoration: Alternating red and blue initials in 2 sizes: 5-line for each new letter of the alphabet, 3-line for the topics under each letter; 1-line initials within the text slashed in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/26/2012. Bound in 15th century German white pigskin, blind tooled with a circular stamp of the Virgin and Child in glory, a roll tool of animals chasing or fighting one another, and a fleur-de-lis; 2 fore edge clasps closign back to front; strips from an eleventh or early twelfth century manuscript used as reinforcement; titles written on bottom edge and on front cover: Vocabularius juris; Tabula martiniana; on the spine, the titles in a later hand and a square printed paper pressmark label: G 426. Leaf from Johann Amerbach's 1481 Bible (Pr 7560) used as front pastedown. 73098a. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Canon law--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Belonged to the Carthusian house at Buxheim; ex libris in the upper margin of f. 1 of the printed book,"Cartusiae in Buxheim," and in the lower margin, their book stamp. Not in the mid-fifteenth century catalogue of Buxheim, P. Ruf, ed., Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Munich 1932) 3:1.
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