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GRATIAN (d. by c.1160), Decretum, in Latin, SIX FRAMED MINIATURES CUT FROM AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Bologna, 1280s-90s]
The miniatures depict: 1) an ailing bishop suffering from a long illness being replaced by a younger man (Causa VII), the verso text from Causa VI, Quaestio IV, C.III-IV; 2) a bishop accused by a girl of fornication before a throng of clergy (Causa II), the verso text from Quaestio I, C.VII; 3) Causa XXVII opens ten cases concerning sex and marriage, on the left a man vowed to chastity pleads with the judge, on the right, his wife having rejected him marries someone else, the verso text from Quaestio I, C.VIII; 4) a dispute over the tithes of parishioners fleeing their baptismal church in times of war, three soldiers in the background while a group of men and women lay offerings at an altar attended by a priest (Causa XIII), the verso text from Quaestio I, C.I; 5) a bishop who has committed perjury and has compelled his clergy to an oath of obedience (Causa XXII), the verso text from Quaestio I, C.II; 6) a man, who lost and then regained his virility, appeals to the judge as his wife embraces another man on the right [Causa XXXIII], the verso text from Quaestio II, C.IV.
[Bologna, 1280s-90s]
The miniatures depict: 1) an ailing bishop suffering from a long illness being replaced by a younger man (Causa VII), the verso text from Causa VI, Quaestio IV, C.III-IV; 2) a bishop accused by a girl of fornication before a throng of clergy (Causa II), the verso text from Quaestio I, C.VII; 3) Causa XXVII opens ten cases concerning sex and marriage, on the left a man vowed to chastity pleads with the judge, on the right, his wife having rejected him marries someone else, the verso text from Quaestio I, C.VIII; 4) a dispute over the tithes of parishioners fleeing their baptismal church in times of war, three soldiers in the background while a group of men and women lay offerings at an altar attended by a priest (Causa XIII), the verso text from Quaestio I, C.I; 5) a bishop who has committed perjury and has compelled his clergy to an oath of obedience (Causa XXII), the verso text from Quaestio I, C.II; 6) a man, who lost and then regained his virility, appeals to the judge as his wife embraces another man on the right [Causa XXXIII], the verso text from Quaestio II, C.IV.
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