ENLUMINURE. CANON LAW. GRÉGOIRE IX. Folio extracted... Lot 3

[ENLUMINURE]. [CANON LAW]. [GRÉGOIRE IX]. Folio extracted from the Decretals of Gregory IX, Book V, with gloss (certainly that of Bernard of Parma?) and interlinear and marginal glosses and comments. In Latin, from an illuminated manuscript on parchment. Italy, Bologna (?), late 13th or early 14th century. Text copied on two columns, with marginal gloss, littera bononiensis script, headings in red, paragraph signs in red or blue, initials in red or blue, some with dark blue or red filigree decoration, large initial P traced in pink and orange with white highlights on a blue background and historiated introducing book V, title VI (8 lines high) featuring a man in bust form, wearing a green hat, a few pen-and-ink drawings in the margins. Dimensions: 310x208 mm Leaf trimmed short, with damage to the glossary texts). This leaf is taken from Book V, Des peines et des procédures pénales. Recto: Decretals of Gregory IX, Book V, titulus V (De Magistris...) [Ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, II, 770-771, Leipzig, 1879-1881] (chapters IV-V). Followed by: Decretals of Gregory IX, Book V, titulus VI (De Judeis, Sarracenis et eorum servis) [Ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, II, 771, Leipzig, 1879-1881] (chapters I-II). Verso: Continuation of the Decretals of Gregory IX, Book V, title VI (De Judaeis, Sarracenis et eorum servis) [Ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici, II, 772-774, Leipzig, 1879-1881] (chapters II-VIII; the text is interrupted at chapter VIII). Gregory IX's Decretals were compiled in 1234. Book V, title VI deals with the right of "Jews and Saracens" to employ Christians in their service (De Judeis, Sarracenis et eorum servis), here theorized by Canon Law, which attempts to define by law the relations of Christians with non-Christians: the Church's problem was that it had no jurisdiction over non-Christians and had to influence them through temporal authorities, more or less zealous according to the times. See Freidenreich, David M. "Muslims in Western Canon Law, 1000-1500", in Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200). - Sansy, Danièle, "Juifs et musulmans à la fin du Moyen Âge", in Le mal et le diable. Leurs figures à la fin du Moyen Âge, N. Nabert (dir.), Paris, Beauchesne, 1996, pp.125-144.