Decretales Gregorii IX (Liber Extra)
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The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
An Northern Italian Gothic Textualis written by a single hand.
Marginalia in a different, later hand.
Original Condition
Two columns of the Decretales Gregorii IX (Liber Extra) surrounded by a commentary written in a smaller, more condensed Textualis, and other marginalia.
Current Condition
The leaf has been repurosed as a pastedown at the back of the incunabulum. Another, smaller fragment -- from the same parent manuscript -- has been pasted transversally at the bottom of the wooden board.
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The parchment is stained in places and there is evidence of wood worm damage.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Two-line penwork initials in red and blue with ornamental penflourishes in red and violet marking chapter divisions.
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Red and blue paraphs and litterae notabiliores.
Content
- Content Item
- Persons Pope Gregory IX
- Text Language Latin
- Title Decretales Gregorii IX (Liber Extra)
- Content Description
A single leaf with the Decretales Gregorii IX (Liber Extra), I, 6, "De Electione," chapters 34-38.
History
Host Volume
15th-/16th-century light leather binding with the red crest of the Augustinian canons of Kreuzlingen.
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ISTC No.: ia01243000
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A leaf from a 12th-century antiphonary is used as a pastedown at the front of the host volume: Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 77, Front pastedown.
Bibliography
On the host volume:
Luginbühl, Marianne and Heinz Bothien. Meisterwerke des Frühen Buchdrucks: Die Inkunabel-Schätze der Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau aus den Klöstern von Ittingen, Fischingen und Kreuzlingen. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber, 2011, pp. 30-31.