Marston MS 36     Southern France, s. XIV 1/4
Gottofredo da Trani, Summa super titulis Decretalium, etc.



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1. ff. 1r-148v Incipit summa super titulis decretalium compilata
a magistro gaufrido de trano domini pape subdiacono, et capellano. 
Rubrica. [prologue:]  Glosarum diuersitas intelligenciam textus 
non numquam obtenebrat. t dum pereas...[text:]  De summa trinitate 
et fide catholica.  Post prohemium breuiter edocemur, quare hec noua 
compilatio facta est... malui repeti quam deesse.  [colophon:]  
Explicit liber quintus qui scripsit sit benedictus.

Edition: Goffredus Tranensis, Summa super titulis decretalium 
(Lugduni,1519; repr. Aalen, 1968). One leaf with text missing between
ff. 60 and 61.  Text is accompanied by some contemporary notes and 
pointing hands in margins.  Finding aids consisting of chapter titles 
in lower right corner, recto (ff. 2-46).

2. f. 148v Two recipes for treatment of sore eyes, in Lat.

3. f. 149r List of Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Constantine.

4. f. 149v Beginning of a word list, for the letter A only.

5. f. 150r blank; f. 150v Miscellaneous notes, in Lat.

	Parchment, ff. ii (parchment, early flyleaves?) + 149 + ii 
(parchment, early flyleaves?), 410 x 225 (295 x 160) mm.  2 columns, 
64 lines.  Single vertical bounding lines, full length.  Ruled in 
lead.  Prickings in upper and lower margins.
	I-VI 10, VII 10 (-1), VIII-XV 10.  Catchwords in lower margin 
under inner column, verso.  First leaves of each quire signed with 
letters of alphabet, in red, lower right corner, recto (a through 
v on ff. 1-74).
	Written in a rounded gothic bookhand, below top line; marginal
annotations and finding aids by a contemporary hand in less formal 
script. 
	5 fine illuminated initials, 30- to 7-line, in blue or pink with 
white filigree on blue and red grounds framed in blue or red 
accentuated at the corners by gold dots.  Infilled with intertwining 
or angular vines, some with biting head terminals, mauve or blue with 
white highlights and gold dots.  Ascenders and descenders, red, mauve 
and blue terminating in spiralling serifs with biting animal heads or 
grotesques against cusped grounds (cf. R. Branner, Manuscript 
Painting during the Reign of St. Louis [Berkeley, 1977] fig. 282).  
Two initials with vines issuing from upper and left corners, blue with 
white highlights ending in grotesques.  3- and 2-line calligraphic 
initials, red and blue with blue and red penwork.  Plain initials 
alternating in red and blue.  Headings in red; running titles (chapter
numbers) alternating red and blue.  Instructions to rubricator in lower 
margins.
	Binding:  France, s. xix.  Early sewing on five supports with
19th-century boards covered in parchment.  Title on spine:  "Gofredo 
de Trano/ Manuscrit."

Written in France in the first quarter of the 14th century; notes on 
final flyleaves and pastedown (s. xiv-xv), severely affected by 
reagents and rubbing, include:  unidentified monogram; two 2-line 
Latin poems written in French batarde (s. xv#2); a note dated "1384;" 
the name "hugo carinfias [or tarinfias?]."  Bookstamp and inscription 
("Ex Biblioth. D. presidis de Montesquieu Catal. inscrip.") of the 
Bibliotheca Bredensis (Charles Louis de Secondant, Baron de, Marquis 
de Montesquieu; 1689-1755) f. 1r, lower margin.  Booklabel of comte 
Chandon de Briailles (b. 1852; Dictionnaire de Biographie de France, 
v. 8, cols. 370-71) on first front flyleaf. "703 bis" in red in on 
f. i recto; "70657659 [or 4?]" on back cover; "PP [?]/ XI-1954" in 
pencil on back pastedown.  Purchased from George Heilbrun of Paris in 
in 1955 by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 663), who sold it in the same year 
to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate). 

secundo folio:  Nam

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 36.

Barbara A. Shailor