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Papal documents

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

MS 151: Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 14th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 151
Contents Contains nine texts bound together, in different hands.Of note, the endpaper at the beginning of the manuscript is an interesting fragment from an Antiphoner of the 9th or 10th century. The other endpaper is a textual fragment too, although from later that the 9th/10th centuries.ff. 1r-8v: Bull of Pope Honorius III to Saint Francis and the brothers of the Orderff. 9r-13r: Bull of Pope Gregory IXff. 14r-50r: Bull of Pope Nicholas III from 1279,...
Dates: 14th century

Notes on decretals (?), 15th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 147/ff. 3r-7r
Contents

ff. 3r-7r are in a different 15th century hand than the preceding 3 2 folios of MS 147. The text contained on these five folios seems to be assorted notes on decretals (documents/letters from popes that formulated papal decisions and rulings on Canon law).

Dates: 15th century

Notes on papal decretals and constitutions, 15th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 147/ff. 115r-126v
Contents

Ff. 115r-126v are in yet another difficult, 15th-century hand. These folios appear to be various notes, with many marginal annotations. The text appears to include dating of papal decretals (letters from popes on matters of Church law), and papal constitutions.

Dates: 15th century

Papal decree 'De excommunicatis non vitandis', c 1455

 Part
Identifier: MS 138/ff. 250r-251r
Contents

This section of the manuscript seems to be a papal decree from 1435, titled De excommunicatis non vitandis. It starts on f.250r with Anno Domini 1435, 5 Id. Junii post secundum sessionem Concilii Basiliensi. Ad vitandum scandala. It ends on f.251r.



Writing

This section seems to be in the same hand as the previous section.

Dates: c 1455