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GIOVANNI D'ANDREA

Catalogue reference: Sion L40.2/L31

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Sion L40.2/L31
Title
GIOVANNI D'ANDREA
Date
c.1300-c.1350
Description

Johannes Andreae, 'Additiones super 5 libros decretalium' [on the five books of the Decretals of Gregory IX], by Johannes Andreae, or Giovanni d'Andrea (d. 1348), canon lawyer, of Bologna. The title and the name of the author are given in the explicit of each book, e.g. 'Explicit liber secundus additionum d[omp]ni Io. An. super dec' (f. 146r). This manuscript was written in England and owned by Christ Church, Canterbury. ff. 1r-72v. On book 1 of the Decretals. Begins: 'Gregorius. In hoc prohemio non ponitur casus summarius nec textualis ...'. ff. 73r-146r. On book 2 of the Decretals. ff. 147r-204r. On book 3 of the Decretals. ff. 204r-221v. On book 4 of the Decretals. ff. 221v-261r. On book 5 of the Decretals. Ends imperfectly: '... facienda idest de re'. The last words of book 5 now remaining are in the commentary on Si quem (V. xxxix. 59: f. 261r col. 1, last line): the outer half of f. 261 is missing and the second column on the verso, all that remains, is blank. Pecia marks in the margins of book 1 at intervals of about two leaves, the last 'fi. p. xxxiiij' at f. 70v. Books 2 and 3 begin on new quires. The scribe left blank spaces where he could not read his exemplar, e.g. ff. 143r, 217v. Damaged text on ff. 147r, 148v, 149r was neatly replaced in the 15th century. Annotations in English hands, 14th-15th century, include the words 'Loke wel boy' (f. 157r), and 'Ista in Curia regis Anglie h. non seruatur' (f. 73r), referring to the church's 'jus patronatus' (II. i. 3). Blank spaces at the ends of books 1 and 2 (ff. 72v, 146r) were filled by a contemporary hand with commentaries on 'Dudum rotamagen' eccl' (I. vi. 54) and 'Sacris' (V. xxxix. 38).

Note

The only other copy in England seems to be Durham Cathedral, C. ii. 9.

Held by
Lambeth Palace Library
Language
Latin
Creator(s)
Sion College
Physical description
261 ff.
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Open

Immediate source of acquisition
Identifiable by the opening words of the second leaf as the copy recorded at Christ Church, Canterbury, in 1508. This was given to Christ Church in 1411 by Prior Thomas Chillenden (fl. 1365-1411). See M. R. James, 'Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover' (1903), p. 159, no. 201 and p. 150, no. 2. Also recorded in 'Medieval libraries of Great Britain : a list of surviving books', ed. N.R. Ker, 2nd ed., 1964, p. 37. Owned by Humfrey Dyson (d. 1633), book collector and notary; his ownership inscription 'Hum. Dyson' is at f. 1r. On Dyson see 'The Library', 3rd series, i. 144 and 2nd series, viii. 113; also the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Given by Dyson to Sion College in 1631, as recorded in the Sion Benefactors' Register (Sion L40.2/E64), p. 14. The pre-Great Fire mark 'V. 4' is on f. 1r. Recorded by John Spencer with this shelfmark in his catalogue of 1650 (Sion L40.2/E92, f. 3r). Recorded at Sion College in Edward Bernard, 'Catalogi Manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae' (Oxford, 1697), vol 2, no. 4086. Transferred from Sion College to Lambeth Palace Library, 1996.
Physical condition
Binding of black leather over wooden boards, tooled in gold, with metal clasps. 400 x 265 mm. Late 19th century. Parchment leaves (and unnumbered paper flyleaves), 385 x 240 mm. Written space c.300 x 185 mm. 2 cols. 68-70 lines. Written in anglicana. Collation: 1-11(12); 12(14) (ff. 133-46); 13(12); 14(12) wants 1 before f. 159; 15-21(12); 22(10) wants 9, 10, probably blank. Initials: (i) red and blue with red and violet ornament; (ii) 2-line, red with violet ornament or blue with red ornament: book 2 differs from the rest in that the only ornament inside the initials is a pair of vertical lines in the Italian manner. Capital letters in the ink of the text are filled with a pale brown wash. Secundo folio 'concor. di. iii.'
Record URL
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