DCL MS. C.III.7Johannes Faventius, Summa super Decretum Gratiani
Held by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts

Johannes Faventius, Summa super Decretum Gratiani, written in England in the early 13th century

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1m8s45q891m.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment: modest to low quality with noticeable H/F distinction; variations in tone and texture; flaws, some surface areas rough. Arranged HF, FH.

Extent: i+131+i f
Size: 332 mm x 225 mm

Foliation

Modern pencil foliation.


Secundo folio: mores enim
Collation

I4, II-III8, IV4, V-VI8, VII10, VIII9 (=8+1 [f.59]), IX-XII8, XIII12, XIV-XVI8, XVII4

Catchwords: Original catchwords
Signatures: Original signatures (Roman numerals)

Condition of manuscriptDamp and other damage to upper and lower margins.
Layout

Written area: 235 x 152 mm. Two columns (68 mm), 53 lines (space, 4.5-5 mm; height of minims, 1.5 mm).
Pricking: awl and knife. Pricking in both side margins for the horizontals. Ruling: lead and ink.

Script

The main text is written in Textualis libraria by two scribes.

Decoration

Blue capitals, 3+ lines high, modestly flourished in red (or vice versa), followed by one or two words in red and blue capitals for main headings. Red and blue capitals in the margins flag the Distinctiones and Quaestiones treated. Lemmata within the text are highlighted by red underlining plus (if the start of a sentence) a red or blue capital.

Binding

Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over thick wooden boards (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th century). Pair of rust stains at fore-edge of fols. 1-2 from the fixtures for the clasps of an earlier binding.

Manuscript history
Creation

Written in England, early 13th century.

Provenance

Inscription: “Lectura super decreta”,mid 14th century, f.2r; “.[O>Q].”, 14th century(?), “[O>Q>D] lectura super decreta”, early 15th century, with “cum quibsdam notulis”, added 15th/16th century by Thomas Swalwell. Also “petrus solinus” - more appropriate to DCL MS C.II.6, early 16th century, f.5r.

Pressmarks: “.F.”, “E” (erased), f.2r. “2a 8i D”, 15th/16th century, f.5r. Recorded in Spendement catalogue.

Manuscript contents
(a)     f.1v-2r,3v,4v
Modern title: Notes
Date: 13th century
Language: Latin

Notes in various hands

(b)     f.4r,2v-3r
Modern title: Table of biblical incidents in Gratian
Date: 13th century
Language: Latin
(c)     f.5r-131r
Original title: Summa super Decretum Gratiani
Author: Johannes Faventius, -1190
Incipit: De trono dei procedunt fulgore uoces ac tonitrua et in circitu eius die ac nocte clamant animalia
Explicit: huius laboriosi operis et operose laboris querens requiem et gloriam sempiternam, amen
Language: Latin

The text begins two-thirds of the way down f.5r, col. i. with the Introduction; the Preface which presumably preceded it, has apparently been erased. Minimal subsequent annotation, largely restricted to Nota marks, including on f.31v crudely sketched heads.

(d)     f.131r-131v
Modern title: Notes
Date: 13th century
Language: Latin

Microfilm
Microfilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham Cathedral Library.

Digitised material for Durham Cathedral Library MS C.III.7 - Johannes Faventius, Summa super Decretum Gratiani
Digitised June 2018 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1m8s45q891m.html
Bibliography

Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiae cathedralis dunelm. Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution, including catalogues of the library of the abbey of Hulne, and of the mss.   OCLC citation, Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).

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