Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.Liber sextus Decretalium.
Subjects:
law-canon
Analysis of content:
[a2r] Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris consanguinitatis. Incipit: ‘[C]irca lecturam arboris, diuersis olim diuersum modum tenentibus ...’ [a3v] Explicit: ‘... quid igitur impediat istos collaterales contrahere, non video Ioannes Andree.’ See Schulte II 215-16 and Stintzing 149-85.
[a3r] [Arbor consanguinitatis].
[a3v] Andreae, Johannes: Lectura arboris affinitatis. Incipit: ‘[A]d arborem affinitatis et eius materiam transeamus ...’ [a4r] Explicit: ‘... et precipue studentes continue perseverent per gratiam eius qui est benedictus in secula seculorum amen.’
[a4v] [Arbor affinitatis].
[a5r] Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Preface to Liber sextus Decretalium]. Edited by Alexander de Nevo. Incipit: ‘[Q]uia preposterus est ordo prius humana subsidia . . .’ [a6v] ... qui premissa negare vel contrarium asserere presumpserint.
[a5r] Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: [Preface to Liber sextus Decretalium]. See B‑460.
[a6v] Andreae, Johannes: [Gloss on Liber sextus Decretalium]. Incipit: ‘Fideli. Errore Grecorum qui dicebant spiritum sanctum procedere a solo patre . . .’
[a6v] Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max.: Liber sextus Decretalium. ‘De summa Trinitate et Fide catholica.’ Incipit: ‘[F]ideli ac devota professione fatemur. quod Spiritus Sanctus eternaliter ex Patre et Filio ...’ s10v Explicit: ‘... Certus est quod is committit in legem qui legis verba complectens contra legis nititur voluntatem. Dem.’ ‘Data Rome apud Sanctum Petrum, quinto nonas Martii pontificatus nostri anno quarto.’ See B‑460.
s11r Colophon: ‘Liber Sextus Decretalium una cum apparatu domini Ioannis Andree per singularem iuris utriusque doctorem dominum Alexandrum Nevum in Patavino Gymnasio iuris canonici lecturam ordinariam obtinentem diligentissime emendatus feliciter explicit. Venetiis impressus opera atque impensa Nicolai Jenson Gallici. M.cccc.lxxvi.’
B-464(1)
Copy
Leaves [a9-10] bound after [a2]. The following sheets belong to Bonifacius VIII, Pont. Max., Liber sextus Decretalium, Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1479 (Bod-inc. B‑468): [a1.10], b1.10, c1.10, d1.10, e1.10, p4, r3 and s6. Leaf s12r contains the register, and is not blank as in BMC. ‘Anno 1476' added on [a4r], in a different type, at the end of the ‘Super arboribus affinitatis'.
Binding: Nineteenth-century German half calf, with early knotted parchment index tabs; Sheppard notes that it was bound for Kloß.
Size: 440 × 295 × 35 mm.
Size of leaf: 432 × 271 mm.
Early marginal notes and pointing hands. On [a1r] a manuscript note on Nicolaus Jenson and on the Decretals and the printer, written by Johannes Christopherus Günther.
On [a5r] a thirteen-line initial ‘B' is supplied in gold, with blue infill, and purple pen-work decoration and extensions into the margins, and containing a shield, hanging from a buckled strap, bearing the arms of Gottsmann, or, an antelope couped sable; and a four-line initial ‘Q' supplied in blue, with red pen-work infill, decoration, and extensions into the margins. Other initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue. Book numbers and chapter titles are supplied in red. Capital strokes in red.
Provenance: Gottsmann family, Bavaria; coat of arms on [a5r]: see Siebmacher, Abgestorbene bayerische und fränkisch-nordgauische Adels-Geschlechter, VI/1, 1, 39 and pl. 39.
Johannes Christopherus Günther, Geranus (fl. 1757); name at the end of the note on the Decretals.
Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; sale (1835), lot 2399.
Purchased for £0. 10. 0; see Books Purchased (1835), 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 3Q 1.9.
