Beschreibung:

Chained legal texts
A compilation of Canon Law texts, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Germany, 15th century]
A compilation of legal texts, in a contemporary German chained monastic binding.
318 x 212mm. 302 leaves, 113 (of 14, xiv a cancelled blank), 2-612, 711 (of 12, xii a cancelled blank), 8-1812, 192 (of 12, iii-xii cancelled blanks), 20-2612, early foliation 1-311 followed here, two columns of c.44-46 lines written in German cursive bookhands by at least five different scribes, ruled space: 247 x 65mm, capitals touched in red, decorative penwork initials in red throughout, some with faces, headers and line-fillers in red, three medieval leather tabs survive (lacking end, opening leaves particularly soiled with edges frayed or torn apart with some loss of text, else in good condition).
Binding:
Contemporary German pigskin over stout beech boards, blind-ruled in rombic patterns, tab at lower end of spine, sewn on 3 thongs, with a medieval chain with 3 links and ring fastened at top of lower cover, 10 brass bosses, 8 brass corners, large painted 'h' on upper cover (a little scuffed and rubbed).
Provenance:
(1) Harold Peirce (1856-1932), businessman and bibliophile of Philadelphia: his label inside upper cover: 'From the collection of / Harold Peirce / Lent to Bryn Mawr College by his daughters / Margaret and Mary Peirce / no 77, February 1948'.
(2) Robert S. Pirie (1934-2015), of Boston, Mass.: his bookplate on inside upper cover.
(3) Quaritch, London, acquired in 1987 by:
(4) The Schoyen Collection, MS 45.
Content:
Alphabetical index f.1-1v; Johannes Andreae: Casus Breves Super Quinque Libris Decretalium ff.2-82v; 'Non Facias Alii quod Tibi non Vis Fieri' (An Untraced Table for a Work on Canon Law) ff.84-119v; Michael de Bononia: Tabula super Sententias 1-4 (Petrus Lombardus) ff.121-160; Wilhelm Horborch: Conclusiones Rote de Iudicibus ff.161-228v; Armandus de Bellovisu: Tabula Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti de Declaracione Difficilium Dictionum in Theologica ff.229-234; Armandus de Bellovisu: Epistola de Declaratione Dictorum et Dictionum in Theologica ff.234v-313v.