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Detailed record for Arundel 445
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| Author |
Petrus de Braco |
| Title |
Compendium juris canonici |
| Origin |
Germany, S. (Burgerroth?) |
| Date |
between 1427 and 1429 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Scribe |
Johann Sewser Junior |
| Decoration |
1 large puzzle initial in red and brown with blue penwork decoration (f. 1). 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue or brown (ff. 53, 70). Large and small initials in plain red, blue (or faint brown), a few with reserved designs. |
| Dimensions in mm |
415 x 275 (300 x 195) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 269 (+ 2 modern and 1 original paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1963. |
| Provenance |
Written at least in part in 1427 and 1429: 'Explicit prima pars compendij magistri Petri de Braco et finita est per me Johannem Sewser Juniorem anno a nativitate domini mo cccco xxvij in vigilia sancti Mathei apostoli. Amen' (f. 156v).
'Explicit Conpendium excellentissimi doctoris magistri Petri de Braco super iure canonyco scriptum et finitum in Burgenrod [Burgerroth, Bavaria] Anno ab incarnacione domini mo cccco xx nono.' (f. 267).
Johann Leonrod (d. 1460), canon of Eichstätt from 1419: inscribed 'Liber Johannis de leonrod…' (f. 267; cf. Arundel 440 and 475).
Johann Pirckheimer (b. 1440, d. 1501), Nuremberg patrician, jurist, diplomat, and humanist: inscribed, immediately after Leonrod's inscription 'quem emi ego Johannes Pircheymer utriusque juris doctor ab executoribus testamenti eiusdem' (f. 267); Pirckheimer bought Leonrod's manuscripts from his heirs in 1466 (see Reimann 1944).
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIV.3.3’, inside upper cover).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 124.
Arnold Reimann, Die Älteren Pirckheimer: Geschichte eines Nürnberger Patriziergeschlechtes im Zeitalter des Frühhumanismus (bis 1501) (Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang, 1944), p. 127 n. 4.
Nicholas Mann, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi, 6 (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1975), p. 361 n. 1.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), no. 477.
Monika Fink-Lang, Untersuchungen zum Eichstätter Geistesleben im Zeitalter des Humanismus, Eichstätter Beiträge, 14 (Regensburg: Pustet, 1985), pp. 293, 296, 323, 326. |
| Last revised: 02 December 2005 |
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