Pope Clement V.

£75,000 · Offered by Sokol Books

Provenance: 1. Most probably written and decorated in the decades immediately after 1326, when Johannes Andreae completed his Gloss. With script and decoration pointing towards France and Italy, this codex was likely produced in southern France, perhaps for study in Toulouse (compare the notably similar hand in a contemporary copy of the same work, now Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, MS. 7, and probably made in Avignon for the bishop of Toulouse; and see below on identical layout). The references to the work of Willielmus Mandagoti (f.10v, lower margin), i.e. Cardinal Guillaume de Mandagout (d. 1321), who wrote a treatise on the election of bishops and served as bishop of Aix-en-Provence and then Embrun lends support to this identification. By the sixteenth century the volume appears to have been in private hands in France, and a French hand of this date added the personal motto “Deum timenti bene erit” to its endleaves. William Bragge (1823-1884) of Birmingham and Sheffield, book collector, civil engineer, proficient linguist and traveller; most probably rebound for him; his sale at Sotheby’s, 8 June 1876, lot 152, to Quaritch: then their A general catalogue of books […]the supplement: 1875–1877(1877), no. 18,359. Henry White (1821/2-1900), FSA, with his armorial bookplate; Sir Sydney Cockerell adding to the front flyleaf that the manuscript was sold in White's sale at Sotheby's, 21 April 1902, lot 536, to 'Ridler'. William Ridler (fl. 1877-1904), London booksel

• Binding: Hardcover

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