Decretals, etc

Description

Title: Decretals, etc
Creator: Pseudo-Isidore
Published / Created: [between 850 and 875]
Publication Place: Northern France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (thick, poor quality) of excerpts from the writings of Church Fathers, canon law, and conciliar documents. There has been extensive scholarly debate about the manuscript's provenance and its relation to other copies of the Pseudo-Isidore Decretals. The manuscript seems to have been written, corrected, and rubricated by multiple scribes and to have been composed in units; the quality of the parchment often changes from scribe to scribe
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in Carolingian minuscule.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown calf with gold-tooled spine. Boards mostly detached, sewing breaking, part of spine leather wanting.
Extent: ff. iii + 253 + iii : 402 x 300 (320 x 210) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 9th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Pseudo-Isidore.
Subject (Topic): Canon law
Fathers of the church
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Pseudo-Isidore
Pseudo-Isidorian decretals
Canon law
Fathers of the church
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 9th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Pseudo-Isidore, Decretals. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.