Marston MS 176     France, s. XIV 2/4
Boniface VIII, Sextus Liber Decretalium, etc.

1. ff. 1r-107v [Text in center of page:]  Incipit liber. vj.
decretalium.  Bonifacius episcopus seruus seruorum dei dilectis filiis
doctoribus et scolaribus...apostolicam benedictionem.  [prologue:] 
Sacrosancte romane ecclesie quam inperscrutabilis diuine
prouidencie...recepturi ulterius aut pro decretalibus habituri.  [text, f.
2v:]  Gregorius x in generalibus concilio lugdunensi.  De summa trinitate et 
fide catholica.  Fideli ac deuota professione fatemur quod spiritus sanctus 
eternaliter...Certum est quod is committit in legem qui legis uerba 
complectentes contra legis nititur uoluntatem.  Explicit textus. vj. libri 
[?] decretalium deo gratias.

Boniface VIII, Sextus liber decretalium; E. Friedberg, ed., Corpus
iuris canonici, Pars secunda, Decretalium Collectiones (Leipzig, 1922) v. 2, cols.
933-1124.  Arts. 1 and 2 accompanied by some interlinear and marginal
glosses; running headlines (chapter titles) in upper margins also added by
later hand.

2. ff. 1r-107v [Commentary in margins:]  In dei nomine amen.  [prologue:]  
secundum phylosofum scire est rem per causam cognoscere.  xxiij...[text:]  
Bonifacius.  hoc prohemium diuiditur in duas partes.  primo premittit [?] 
salutationem...quanto.  et decima quarta.  questione.  tercia plerique.  
Explicit apparatus sexti libri decretalium.  Deo gracias.  amen.

Johannes Monachus, Apparatus in Librum Sextum; edition:  Glosa
aurea (Paris, 1535; repr. Aalen, 1968).

Parchment, ff. 107, 420 x 260 (357 x 222) mm. 2 columns, 4-45 lines of
text surrounded by a maximum of 94 lines of commentary.  Single or double
vertical bounding lines.  Ruled in lead and crayon.  Prickings in upper
and lower margins; additional single prickings in outer and inner margins
for horizontal ruling for top of text space in art. 1. 
I-II 12, III 12 (-10), IV-IX 12.  Catchwords, some decorated, to right of
center in lower margin, verso.
Written in gothic bookhand, below top line; larger module of script for
art. 1.
Folio 1r, small initial of poor quality, 10-line, framed in gold and
blue with white highlights, depicting Cardinal Johannes Monachus, 
accompanied by two clerics, presenting a copy of his commentary to Pope 
Boniface VIII; miniature is against deep pink ground with white filigree.  One
illuminated initial, 7-line, pink with white filigree on blue ground with
white filigree; initial filled with stylized leaves, blue, pink and white
against gold ground.  Foliage serifs, pink and blue with white shading. 
Numerous flourished initials, 18- to 2-line, red and/or blue (some divided
in both colors) with red and/or blue penwork.  Headings (many omitted) in
red.  Running titles in red and blue.  Paragraph marks alternate red and
blue.  Notes to rubricator.
Binding:  France, s. xiv [?].  Original wound sewing on seven tawed
skin, twisted, double supports laced into grooves in beech boards and
pegged.  A plain wound, natural color endband is sewn through the vellum
spine lining and on a tawed skin core laced into the boards and pegged. 
Covered in orange tawed skin, mostly wanting.  Two fastenings, the catches
on the lower board.  Off-set impression from text of manuscript
formerly used as front pastedown.

Written in France in the second quarter of the 14th century; provenance
unknown.  Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston
(bookplate).

secundo folio: contrarie

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 84, no. 176.

Barbara A. Shailor