Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 254: Gregory IX, Decretales

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Summary
CCCC MS 254 contains a thirteenth-century copy of the text of Gregory IX's Decretals (Decretales nouae). Judging from the number of scribbled annotations that appear in several different hands in the margins of the text, it would appear that a succession of canon lawyers regarded this volume as their working copy of an important text for church discipline and government. There is no clue as to the manuscript's provenance, though presumably Parker acquired it as part of his desire to understand the origins and nature of papal and episcopal authority in England in his effort to entrench the English Reformation.
Contents
Decretales

Description

Alternative title Decretales Novae
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 253 + 1
Date created [ca. 1200 - 1299]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout double columns of 37 and 42 lines
Height (mm) 275
Width (mm) 185
Collation 1 flyleaf, 1(8) 2(10) 3(8) 4(10) 5(8)-21(8) 22(6) (wants 6) 23(8)-31(8) | 32(4).
Writing in a small clear pointed script: principally in two hands
Foliation ff. i-ii + 1-250 + iii-vi
2 fo. unitatem

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiii
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:sj520bb6661/MS_254.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qd325yp4619/254.pdf
Contains
Title
Gregory IX, Decretales. 1r-249r
James
Gregorii ix Decretales. 1r-249r
Author
Gregory IX
Note
(1r) Liber I
Incipit
(1r) Rex Pacificus pia miseratione
Note
(62r) Liber II
(122v) Liber III
(178r) Liber IV
(199r) Liber V
Ends
Explicit
(249r) circa talium institucionum officia
Note
(249r) An erasure at the bottom of this page
(249v) Two lists of tituli follow
TJames 370
Stanley D. 6
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/pz051sq9084
Location MS 254
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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Parker Manuscripts

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