Ɵ Bulls of Pope Boniface VIII, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [northern France, c.1300]

Ɵ Leaf from a collection of Bulls of Pope Boniface VIII, in Latin, from a large manuscript on parchment[northern France (probably Paris), c. 1300] Bifolium, each leaf with double column of 55 lines in a fluent and rapidly written gothic bookhand (textualis currens), typical of Parisian academic books, some small marginalia, spaces left for rubrics, section of parchment lost from blank margin at foot of first leaf, recovered from the binding of a printed copy of Panormitanus, Lectura super V libris Decretalium, Basel: Bernard Richel, 1480-1481, some scuffing and water damage to second leaf causing illegibility in places there, overall fair condition, 380 by 270mm.; in cloth-covered binding Provenance:1. Written in Paris c. 1300, and by the closing decades of the fifteenth century discarded and reused as binding material in Trier. While in its new home at the front of an incunable, a five-line inscription was added to the foot of the first leaf, recording that Brother Paulus de Muntzdail, when still a novice of St. Alban outside the walls of Trier, presented a printed copy of Panormitanus, Lectura super V libris Decretalium (and the manuscript leaves reused in its binding) as well as other books to his monastic house, and arranged in the presence of a notary that none of his books should be lent outside his monastery except with special permission, on a temporary basis, and with the restriction of a written warranty. Other books from this gift survive in Yale, Rare Book 36 00-0080, a Bernardo Bottoni, Casus longi super quinque librios decretalium, Basel: Michel Wenssler, c. 1473; University of Glasgow, Hunterian Special Collections, Be.2 19, a Lactantius printed in Venice in 1479; and Hunterian Special Collections, Cm. 1.4, a Plutarch printed in Strassburg in 1473-75; all with identical inscriptions in the same hand. Paulus de Muntzdail held a doctorate in Canon Law and before moving to Trier to become a Carthusian, he served as the provost of the Church of Saint Mary in Flanheim, and the rector of the parish church in Kreuznach near Mainz. He died in 1487.2. Carthusian Monastery of St. Alban, Trier (founded 1335, surviving until 1673, when it was suppressed during warfare with the French, and the community moved to Merzlich, then known as Konz-Karthaus, before suppression during the Secularisation, after which its goods and chattles were sold in 1805). 3. Jacques Rosenthal (1854-1937), passing after his sudden death to Hans Koch, who took over the business.4. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), San Francisco, California, his I/124, acquired in 1960. 5. Quaritch cat. 1147, Bookhands of the Middle Ages V, 1991, no. 106.6. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 724, acquired from Quaritch in March 1991. Text:The leaves here contain parts of Pope Boniface VIII's bulls of 7 April 1295; 8 April 1295 nullifying certain exceptions privileges granted by Pope Nicholas IV; 8 April 1295 nullifying privileges granted by the popes, Celestine and Honorius IV; followed by a short legal commentary.