Walters Ms. W.133, Gratian's Decretum Prefatory summary Distinctiones Causae De consecratione ecclesiarum Accretions Palee Decretum Gratian Principal cataloger Randall, Lilian M.C. Cataloger Dennis, Nathan S Editor Herbert, Lynley Copy editor Wallace, Susan Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbold, Rebekah Contributor Noel, William Contributor Schuele, Allyson Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Conservator Owen, Linda Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This deluxe version of Gratian's Decretum was created ca. 1280-90, most likely in Hainaut. The lively decoration of the manuscript indicates a marked taste for narrative, and there are thirty-seven historiated initials. The gloss work was completed by Bartholomew of Brescia. At first, Paris would seem to be the most likely place of origin, given that it was the leading center for the study of canon law. However, this particular manuscript exhibits scribal features that suggest its place of origin as being the Cistercian abbey of Cambron in Hainaut. Furthermore, Abbot Baudouin de Bousso, whose tenure at the abbey was from 1283 to 1293, was schooled in theology at the University of Paris, and he would eventually endorse the production of many fine manuscripts while at Cambron. In fact, the catalyst for this endeavor seems to have been the Beaupré Antiphonary (W.759-761), which was was created at Cambron during the 1280s. Stylistic features of W.133 seem to have connections with the Beaupré Antiphonary. For example, Cistercian monks are shown in three extant illuminations throughout three of the antiphonary volumes; these monks are pictured in brown habits similar to the type worn by clerics in W.133. The reliance upon Cistercian precedents for textual and design features associates W.133 with the Cistercian abbey at Cambron. However, more remains to be confirmed by further inspection of the output of the scriptorium at Cambron. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.133 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 344v Decretum 1r - 10v Prefatory summary In prima parte agitur de iusticia naturali et positiua tam constituta quam inconstituta. 11r - 86v Distinctiones Prima pars Humanum genus duobus regitur: naturali uitelicet iure et moribus. 87r - 310v Causae Prima causa. Incipit prima causa que est de diuersis speciebus simonie Quidam habens filium obtulit eum ditissimo cenobio: exactus ab abbate et fratribus .x. libras soluit: ut filius susciperetur, ipso tamen beneficio etatis ignorante. 311r - 336r De consecratione ecclesiarum De consecratione ecclesiarum, et quod misse non sunt alibi celebrande: quoniam in locis deo sanctis De consecratione et de missarum celebrationibus non alibi quoniam in sacratis domino locis absque magna necessitate fieri debere: liquet omnibus quibus sunt nota noui et ueteris testamenti precepta. 337r - 344v Accretions Palee Incipiunt palee distinctionum. Distinctione .v. ante caput quod incipit. Si mulier. Inseri debet sequens palea. i. p. Cum enixa fuerit mulier post quot dies ecclesiam intrare debeat testamenti ueteris preceptione didicistis.

Well-prepared thin to medium-weight parchment with few blemishes; follicles from hair-sides occasionally visible; stitching from original mending to folios visible on fols. 22, 57, 97, 120, 157, 187, 192, 200, 208, 209, 218, 229, 239, 242, 244, 249, 250, 253, 257, 265, 274, 284, 288, 298, 324, 327, and 335; mild yellowing and occasional minor stains throughout; evidence of rubbing at lower edges of folios; some folios trimmed at lower edges; prickings occasionally visible on outer edges

 Foliation: i+344+i42.0 27.5 34.0 23.75 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners rectos

Quire 1: 10 (fols. 1-10); Quires 2-9: 8 (fols. 11-74); Quire 10: 12 (fols. 75-86); Quires 11-40: 8 (fols. 87-326); Quire 41: 10 (fols. 327-336); Quire 42: 8 (fols. 337-344) Signatures in red ink, centered at the bottom of the versos, last folios in each quire, up to quire 10 Catchwords usually in brown ink in lower right corners versos, last folio of each quire

Two columns of Decretum text, plus two columns of wrap-around commentary text = 34 x 23.75 cm; textual accretions on fols. 337r to 344r lack the wrap-around text, reducing the written-text dimensions to 25.5 x 15.5 Textura semi-quadrata One historiated initial on fol. 1r One inhabited initial on fol. 11r Historiated initials on fols. 87r, 107r, 123r, 132r, 134r, 137r, 143r, 146r, 149r, 152r, 162r, 172r, 176r, 179r, 183r, 195r, 198r, 201r, 202r, 204r, 206r, 213r, 233r, 243r, 247r, 253r, 260r, 263r,264r, 267r, 269r, 277r, 303r, 304r, and 310r; one inhabited initial on fol. 130r One historiated initial on fol. 311r Flourished initials in red and blue ink; smaller initials in red and blue ink for tertiary text divisions; marginal drolleries Thirty-six historiated initials; two inhabited initials; flourished initials for secondary text divisions in red and blue ink; smaller initials for tertiary text divisions in blue and red ink; marginal drolleries throughout; rubrics in red; text in dark brown ink Historiated initial "I" with Christ blessing, Ecclesia, a king, and a layman Prefatory Summary Full-page historiated initial "I" Inhabited initial "H" with biting animal heads Distinctio I Inhabited initial "H," 15 lines Historiated initial "Q" of simony, with a father paying an abbot for his son's education Causa I Historiated initial "Q," 14 lines, with the tail extending another 31 lines Historiated initial "E" with bishop being accused of carnal sins Causa II Historiated initial "E," 13 lines Historiated initial "E" with a bishop, falsely accused by a layman, seeking to recover his position Causa III Historiated initial "E," 13 lines Inhabited initial "I" with animal heads Causa IV Inhabited initial "I," 28 lines Historiated initial "I" with defamed bishop Causa V Historiated initial "I," 26 lines Historiated initial "D" with bishop being accused by two fornicators Causa VI Historiated initial "D," 11 lines Historiated initial "Q" with bishop falling ill, being replaced, and then requesting his position back after regaining his health Causa VII Historiated initial "Q," 11 lines Historiated initial "A" with an ill bishop, charged with simony after his successor replaced him, restored to his position Causa VIII Historiated initial "A," 11 lines Historiated initial "S" with an excommunicated archbishop ordaining 2 clerics Causa IX Historiated initial "S," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" with a dispute between a bishop and layman over church-property ownership Causa X Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "C" with the application of civic law to church officials Causa XI Historiated initial "C," 12 lines Historiated initial "C" with an ill cleric discussing the distribution of his possessions with a notary Causa XII Historiated initial "C," 11.5 lines Historiated initial "D" with landowner's obligations in dioceses after moving Causa XIII Historiated initial "D," 12 lines Historiated initial "C" with a cleric admonishing a canonist for making financial transactions with merchants Causa XIV Historiated initial "C," 12 lines Historiated initial "C" with a priest accused of fornication beating his lay accuser with a club Causa XV Historiated initial "C," 12 lines Historiated initial "A" with clerics accusing an abbot of wrongdoing Causa XVI Historiated initial "A," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" with a priest, having recovered from an illness, seeking his former position Causa XVII Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "A" with a conflict between monks and a bishop over the election of superiors Causa XVIII Historiated initial "A," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" with a bishop exercising his jurisdiction over clerics seeking to enter a monastic order and over irresponsible clerics Causa XIX Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "D" depicting a novice advancing to the priesthood prematurely Causa XX Historiated initial "D," 12 lines Historiated initial "A" showing the rebuking of priests for worldly behavior Causa XXI Historiated initial "A," 12 lines Historiated initial "E" with an archdeacon forced to show respect for a bishop who perjured himself Causa XXII Historiated initial "E," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" with bishop pleading his case before civil authorities to use weapons against heretics in the church Causa XXIII Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "E" with a bishop, who is a heretic, asserting his right to suppress heresy Causa XXIV Historiated initial "E," 12 lines Historiated initial "S" with a seated cleric debating with another cleric and two laymen the income raised by monks from a baptismal church under their jurisdiction Causa XXV Historiated initial "S," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" showing a priest practicing sorcery Causa XXVI Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" showing a woman leaving the man to whom she was betrothed on account of his vow of chastity and entering into a relationship with another man Causa XXVII Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "G" showing the annulment of a man's marriage to a pagan wife and the validity of his second marriage to a Christian wife Causa XXVIII Historiated initial "G," 12 lines Historiated initial "C" showing a woman seeking an annulment after being deceived into marrying a man in the guise of her suitor Causa XXIX Historiated initial "C," 11 lines Historiated initial "Q" with the baptism of a boy Causa XXX Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "U" showing a seated cleric hearing the appeal of a kneeling layman whose promised bride has entered into a relationship with another man Causa XXXI Historiated initial "U," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" showing a seated canonist hearing the case of a man who has engaged in adultery with a sterile prostitute and asked his friend to seduce his wife so he could accuse her of adultery and remarry a pagan woman if she would convert to Christianity Causa XXXII Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" showing a canonist hearing the case of an impotent man whose wife left him and remarried another man, but then returned to her first husband when his impotence was cured Causa XXXIII Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" showing a seated bishop hearing the case of a soldier prisoner of war, who, after his release, discovers that his wife has remarried thinking he was dead Causa XXXIV Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "Q" showing a two-tiered example of the rules of consanguinity for marriage Causa XXXV Historiated initial "Q," 12 lines Historiated initial "C" with a ravished virgin marrying her assailant Causa XXXVI Historiated initial "C," 11 lines Historiated initial "D" with a bishop and two clerics blessing a church De consecratione ecclesiarum Historiated initial "D," 14 lines

Rebound in England in ca. 1900 with crushed-brown leather (the binding is listed as tan in the 1879 Catalogue illustré des livres précieux manuscrits et imprimés faisant partie de la bibliothèque de Ambroise Firmin-Didot); front and back covers blind-tooled with rectangular frames with alternating arabesques and vinescroll motifs and circular depressions with fleurons in the corners; fore-edges divided by vertical lines interspersed with arabesques framed by two sets of horizontal lines; seven ribs on spine with fleurons centered in each of the compartments

 Ca. 1280-90 CE Hainaut Produced ca. 1280-90, probably at the Cistercian abbey in Cambron, Hainaut Possibly part of the personal library of Pedro Álvarez de Osorio, marqués de Astorga (d. 1589), in the sixteenth century; his descendants sold much of the library at auction in London in 1826 and in Paris in 1870 Acquired by the Marqués de Astorga (probably José María Osorio de Moscoso y Carvajal-Vargas) before May 7, 1870, when it was sold at auction in Paris (lot 14) Acquired by Ambroise Firmin-Didot, a bookseller in Paris, and sold at auction on May 29, 1879 (part 2, lot 38) Ex libris stamp of "F. Liechtenstein. Bibliothek" appears at the bottom of fol. 1r Acquired by William Morris, whose bookplate appears at the top of the front pastedown, and whose inscription "William Morris, June 26th 1896, Folkestone" appears at the top of flyleaf i, r Sold in London at auction (lot 558) in 1898 by William Morris to Quaritch, a London bookseller Acquired by Laurence W. 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