Commentary on the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX [manuscript], ca. 1475?.

597 leaves ; 300 x 223 mm

Manuscript on paper.

Incomplete commentary on Books III (leaves 1-24), I (leaves 25-506), and V (leaves 507-596). The chapter headings in the manuscript correspond in many cases to those in, e.g., the 1584 edition of Gregory IX's Decretales. Occasionally the commentator adds the opening words of the relevant part of Decretales alongside the heading. Includes marginalia and manicules.

In Latin.

Manuscript codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
A typescript comparison of the manuscript and the 1584 edition of Decretales is pasted to the back pastedown.
Collation: Leaves iii + 597 + iii; 5 stubs between leaves 24 and 25; pages cut affecting some marginalia.
Layout: Written in varying number of long lines; left margin ruled in dry point.
Script: Written in a hybrid cursive.
Decoration: none.
Origin: Germany late 15th century, according to De Ricci.
Watermarks: 8-petaled Daisy throughout (example on leaf 597); "B" on leaf 512.
Writing on top fore-edge of text block.
Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.42.

Bound in original scored pigskin on wood boards, probably beech (with repairs).

Formerly owned by W.T. Smedley.

Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.

Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.18

Germany.

V.b.42

Smedley 18