Toulouse, Private Collection, Decretum Gratiani

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
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Library Toulouse, Private Collection
Shelfmark Decretum Gratiani
Century saec. XIIIex
Provenance ?
European region of origin Southern France
Collection Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum
Digital Images christies.com (one image)
Author Giovanna Murano


The manuscript, a complete illuminated copy of Gratian with Ordinary Gloss, was part of the library of the château de Merville in the 18th century. Its last known owner was a private collector in the Toulouse region who owned it in the early 1950s. In 2011 it was sold at Christies (6 Jul 2011 – The Arcana Collection, part III).

Membr.; 392 ff. ; 375 × 245; Bologna (testo e app.); Francia (Toulouse o Montpellier, dec.); sec. XIIIex.

Decretum cum Gl. ord.

Literature

P. Ourliac, Un manuscrit à miniature du Décret de Gratien conservé dans une collection privée. In: Studia Gratiana 1 (1953) 303-321 (with fiveimages: Tavola XXXVI, Tavola XXXVII, Tavola XXXVIII). – Melnikas, Corpus vol. 1, fig. 58 (f. 3), p. 151 fig. 26 (f. 108), p. 181 fig. 24 (f. 127). – Stickler, Ursprung 354. – Rouse, Rouse, Manuscripts II 20.