Olomouc, Státní archiv, C.O. 39

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
Library Olomouc, Státní archiv
Shelfmark C.O. 39
Century saec. XIIIex
Provenance Olomouc cathedral chapter
European region of origin Northern France
Collection Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum
Author Giovanna Murano


The manuscript Olomouc, Státní archiv, C.O. 39 is a copy of Gratian's Concordia discordantium canonum. The four folios that were removed are now preserved in: Gothenburg's Röhsska Konstslöjdsmuseum; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and two in private collections*.

*Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz / hrsg. von Georg Swarzenski. Bearb. von Rosy Schilling, Frankfurt am Main 1929, p. 59 n. 55 and tav. XXVIII.

Description

Membr.; 292 ff. [4 ff. asportati ora a: Gothenburg, Röhsska konstslöjdsmuseet; Boston, Museum of Fine arts, e due in collezioni private]; 474/475 × 288/290; Francia (Paris) (miniato nella bottega di Maître Honoré); sec. XIIIex. Prov. Biblioteca del Capitolo Metropolitano.

Contents

Decretum (1ra-292ra) cum Gl. ord. Bartholomaei Brixiensis. Paleae (f. 292v)

Literature

B. Dudík, Handschriften der Bibliothek des Metropolitancapitels in Olmütz. Archivalische Zeitschift 5 (1880) 131-32. – M. Boháček, Le opere delle scuole medievali di diritto nei manoscritti della biblioteca del Capitolo di Olomouc. SG 8 (1962), p. 352. - Kejř, Manuscrits pp. 51-56, 82-83 e tavv. VI-VIII. – G. Schmidt, Materialien zur französischen Buchmalerei der Hochgotik. Wiener Jahbruch der Kunstgeschichte 28 (1975) 162-65. – Melnikas, Corpus vol. 1 fig. 56 (f. 1); p. 129 fig. 41 (f. 71) e passim (sub ‘C.D.39’). – Stickler, Ursprung 356. – Nordenfalk, Review of Melnikas p. 329. – Mordek, Review of Melnikas p. 409. - P. Krafl, Canon Law in the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Middle Ages, Prešov 2024, p. 63. - G. Murano, The Life and Iconography of Gratian: A “Mise au Point” (Part II). Saeculum Christianum, 32,2 (2025), p. 12.