Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, 66

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
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Library Dublin, Chester Beatty Library
Shelfmark 66
Olim shelfmark Phillipps 125
Century saec. XIII
Provenance Saint-Benigne Abbey near Dijon
General region of origin Italy (script) / France (decoration)
Collection Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum
Author Giovanna Murano


Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, 66 is one of the two Gratian copies owned by Chester Beatty (the other one, described by Kuttner p. 29 today is Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, W.777). He bought it in 1920 from the Phillipps Collection (no. 125).

Description

Membr.; 288 ff.; 400 × 280; Italia (Bologna?); Francia (dec.); sec. XIII. Prov. Monastero di Saint-Benigne, nei pressi di Dijon, cf. Ex MSS. Bibliothecae Divio Benignianae (sec. XIX).

Contents

Decretum (D.1-C.35 q.5 c.6) cum Gl. ord. Bartholomaei Brixiensis. Additiones ad gl. ord. (Jo.; h., p.) (b); altre glosse in corsiva di mano francese (alcune siglate ‘ego’) (c).

Literature

E. Millar, The library of A. Chester Beatty: a descriptive catalogue of the Western manuscripts, London 1927, p. 116-120. - – L. Clever, Handlist of western medieval manuscripts currently or formerly in the collections of Sir Alfred Chester and Edith Beatty (2016) on Academia.edu.