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MS 136 - Decretales Gregorii IX glo.

Ref No	MS 136
Alt Ref No	B. 1. 2
Title	Decretales Gregorii IX glo.
Description	Decretales Gregorii IX, with the gloss of Bernard de Botone of Parma. Ff.1-193v. Text; lacks prol.; the opening initial and titulus mutil.: 'Firmiter credimus et simpliciter confitemur… (ends impf. at 5. 33. 1) iuris tui preiudicium probare uolentem. Leo papa. De priuilegiis. Episcopalia (the italicized word being the catchword)'. Glo., beg. and ending impf.: 'et aut tam supradictam sciendum intelligi. . . hic dicitur aliter preiudicetur recep'. Von Schulte II, p.115 [15. 1]. The rest of the MS is MS 29, ff.201-220, which completes the text and gloss, and indicates that the whole MS was owned by Canon Thomas Salysbury.
Author	Gregory IX
Date	13th century
Physical Description	Binding: D.S.Cockerell 8: Son, 1977; native Niger morocco. A binder's note tipped in at the back indicates that the previous binding was standard Lincoln early 20th-cent. Two paper leaves at each end. Lincoln Cathedral bookplate inside the front cover. On the spine: 'DECRETALES GREGORII IX' (gilt) / 'MS. 136' (blind). Construction: 193 parchment leaves, all edges trimmed. Backs and tops of ff.1-11 damaged, with some loss of gloss-text. 440 x 260 mm., text 240 x 130 mm.; the gloss varies. Pencil-ruled in 2 cols with 47 lines of text. Hands: Two competent book-hands, one each for text and gloss. The text-hand is Italian, that of the gloss probably English. Annotated throughout in a late 13th- cent. anglicana hand (see also MS 29 art.5). Decoration: (1) Books open with painted, historiated initials and display-script (always GREGORIUS) on a square ground, divided vertically into two: in the left panel is Gregory seated, mitred, in the right panel is the display-script: ff.1 (mutil.), 54v (effaced by rubbing), 101r, 149, 166v. (2) Elegant and fanciful initials on painted grounds, associated with painted marginal grotesques (animals, birds, monsters) in Italian style. (3) Red or blue initials flourished in the other colour, sometimes with pen-work faces in them. (3) Plain red or blue initials and paraphs. Book-numbers as running heads in 2-colour capitals. Unfilled spaces for initials etc. in the gloss.
Repository	Lincoln Cathedral Library
Language	Latin
Collation	1-7⁸, 8¹⁰(7 canc.), 9-24⁸. Framed catchwords.
Notes	Sec. fol. (text) unitas ; (glo.) damaged, but derived from MS 3 uendere. History: Presumably given to Lincoln Cathedral by Canon Thomas Salisbury (d. 1460); unidentifiable in Wren Cat.; Garvey C 1. 15 ('Decretalium Liber Sextus'); Apthorp, p.280 ('Decretalium liber 6tus, fol.'); Woolley, p.97.

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