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<p>Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 7. Avignon?, Southern France, Written in France ca. 1350 and addressed to the scholars of Toulouse; mid-14th century. This manuscript was produced in Southern France, possibly in Avignon, in the mid-fourteenth century. It contains the text of Clement V's Constitutiones clementinae with the surrounding commentary of Giovanni d'Andrea (Johannes d'Andreae). There is some loss of text. On fol. 1r is an eighteen-line miniature showing an enthroned Pope (Clement) flanked by groups of cardinals and bishops and, kneeling before him, a bare-headed cleric presenting a book. On the lower portion of the same folio, there is a coat of arms, a bendy of six azure and argent with a T in the second, possibly of the Bishop of Toulouse. There are two eight-line initials on a gold ground, numerous six- to three-line pink or blue initials with white filigree on the opposite color ground infilled with gold, some of which are infilled with a profile head of an orange dog with bared teeth on a gold ground, and many two- to seven-line initials in red and blue on red and blue fine line backgrounds with penwork designs. The chapter headings are in red, the paragraph markers in red or blue and there is extensive marginal decoration, whimsical heads, vinestems, and other decorations. This manuscript may be compared with the Liber Sextus Decretalium now in the Library of Congress (De Ricci, p. 207, no. 48); both volumes are addressed to the scholars of Toulouse, written by the same scribe, and illuminated by the same hand. De Ricci suggests that they were at one time bound together, but this is by no means certain. The two manuscripts were purchased together by W. M. Voynich. Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate) acquired this manuscript from his estate, and presented it to Bryn Mawr College in 1951.
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<br>Subjects: 14th century; France; Treatise</div>
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