Papal bulls relating to the Benedictine abbey of S. Giustina of Padua, 1433-1437 : in Latin

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Title:
Papal bulls relating to the Benedictine abbey of S. Giustina of Padua, 1433-1437 : in Latin
Description:
EUGENIUS EPISCOPUS SERVUS SER/vorum dei ad futuram rei memoriam.../...Datus Bonomie anno incarnationis domince Mccccc⁰ xxvii. Idus Augusti. Pontificatus nostri anno septimo./Blondus/Depta gratis de mandato domini nostri papa A. de Magio.
Author:
Eugene IV, Pope, 1383-1447
Scribe:
Gregoriusde de Crema
Former owner:
Rodd, Thomas, 1796-1849
Former owner:
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Former owner:
Maggs Bros.
Auctioneer:
Sotheby's (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1450]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
humanistic scripts
Shelf marks
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:
Abbazia di Santa Giustina (Padua, Italy)--Manuscripts--Early works to 1800
Benedictines--Privileges and immunities--Texts
Benedictines--Italy--Manuscripts
Places:
Italy > Emilian (region) > Piacenza (province) > Bobbio
Extent:
60 leaves : parchment ; 136 x 95 (84 x 58) mm bound to 15 cm
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
[Bobbio]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: colophon: "Iste liber est monachorum congre/gationis sancte Justine de observantia ordinis sancti benedicti scriptus manu dom Gregorii de crema in monasterio sancti columbani de Bobio eiusdem congre[gati]onis."
2. fol. 1v-2v: blank.
3. fol. 3-60v: papal bulls.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in the mid-fifteenth century in Bobbio at the abbey of St. Columbanus by the scribe Gregorius of Crema, who also wrote Florence, Bib. Laurenziana XXIX 1.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Thomas Rodd, cat. p. 49, nr. 2; purchased from Rodd by Sir Thomas Phillipps (his no. 10864, pencilled on flyleaf and on printed paper spine label); Sotheby's London 11 April 1961, lot 165; Maggs, cat. 866 (Dec. 1959), nr. 57.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from Maggs in 1964 (cat. 880, no. 57).
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: fol. 2 blank; fol. 4 (second folio of text): UNIVERSIS AC/singulis...
Collation: Parchment, i (wove paper flyleaf) + 60 + i (wove paper flyleaf) ; 1⁴⁺¹ (fol. 5 singleton) 2-5¹⁰ 6⁸⁻³ (fol. 56-58 are singletons; their conjugates, i.e. the final three leaves, are cancelled) ; catchwords on lower center margin, final verso of each quire. 18th-century brown ink arabic foliation, upper right corner each recto, begins with 1 on fol. 3 and so reaches 58; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page, begins with 1 on fol. 1, used here for reference.
Layout: 1 column, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand by the scribe Gregorius de Crema, in black ink with red rubrics.
Binding: 19th-century red morocco over pasteboard, gilt and blind-rolled covers, gilt filigree board edges, spine gilt and stamped: "Bullae/ S. Bened./ A. D./ 1437"; marbled paper pastedowns and conjugate endleaves, formerly housed in marbled cardboard slipcase with round manuscript label "165" (the lot number when sold at Sotheby's in 1961).
Notes (bibliography):
Bibliography: The Phillipps Manuscripts: Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca Thomae Phillipps, Bt. (repr. London, 1968), 179, nr. 10864.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018712
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.201
Barcode:
39999090789114