Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W.777
| Library | Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | W.777 |
| Olim shelfmark | Dublin, Chester Beatty Collection, 46 |
| Olim shelfmark | Phillipps 1036 |
| Century | sec. XII (1180 ca.) |
| Provenance | Cîteaux |
| European region of origin | Francia (Cîteaux) |
| Collection | Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum |
| Digital Images | art.thewalters (a few b/w images only) |
| Description at | art.thewalters |
| Author | Giovanna Murano |
Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W.777 (olim Phillipps 1036) is a copy of Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum. It is one of the two Gratian copies owned by Chester Beatty (the other one today is Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, 66).
Gratian manuscript, siglum: Bl.
Description
Membr.; 302 (308?) ff.; 360 × 247; Francia (Cîteaux); sec. XII (1180 ca.). Prov. Abbazia di Cîteaux, vd. Liber Cistercii (ff. I, 165, 308). Durante l’abbaziato di Bonifacio (1244-1257) fu prestato al nipote Benedetto, canonico di Ivrea, vd. Decreta Abbatie Cistercii comodata Benedicto Canonico Iporiensis nepotis Abbatis Cirstercii videlicet domni Bonefacii (269v). In seguito è appartenuto al conte MacCarthy-Reagh, di Toulouse. Venduto il 27 maggio 1825, lotto 865. MS 1036 della collezione di Ser Thomas Phillipps. Acquistato da A. Chester Beatty nel 1925. Venduto all’asta Sotheby’s del 3 dic. 1968 n. 11.
Contents
Distico ‘In numero cleri quisquis probus optat haberi’; Introductio Decreti anonyma (1ra-vb, inc. Concordia canonum discordantium iuxta determinationem magistri Gratiani episcopi que in .iii. partes principaliter est divisa); Decretum (2va-302vb) cum I-II Typ. gl. et gl. Bernardi de Pavia (cf. Marburg UB, 33); III Typ gl. (b); Arbor consanguinitatis (273r); Arbor affinitatis (305v).
Literature
D. Millar, The Library of A. Chester Beatty, II, London 1930, 7-12. – Kuttner, Repertorium pp. 14 nota 1 (sub ‘London, Beatty 46’), 29. – Catalogue of Thirty-Seven Illuminated Manuscript of the 9th to the 16th century. The Property of the late Sir A. Chester Beatty, Sotheby’s sale, 3 December 1968, n. 11. – Schilling, Decretum 30. – Melnikas, Corpus vol. 1 p. 144 fig. 10 (f. 83) e passim. – Nordenfalk, Review of Melnikas p. 320. – Schadt, Darstellungen pp. 152, 154, 156-s, 159-164, 177-182 fig. 59, 76. – Dolezalek, Wiegand, Geheimnis 144, 180-92. – Weigand, Romanisierungstendenzen. – Mordek, Review of Melnikas p. 409. – Weigand, Fälschungen als Paleae 302. – Weigand, Dekretabbreviatio ‘Quoniam egestas’ 265, n. 26. – Weigand, Frühe Kanonisten 152. – Weigand, Glossen 680-81. – Landau, Gratian 49. – Weigand, Development 60, 61, 63. – Illuminating the Law 107. - Burden, Mixed recensions, Appendix
