Decretals of Gregory IX (BL Royal MS 10 D VII)

Marriage ceremony, f. 233r.

Colloquial name(s): Decretals of Gregory IX, by Raymond of Peñafort, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

Official name(s): British Library Royal MS 10 D VII

Date: after 1281-1300 (Part 1); 1300-1324 (Part 2) (source)

Origin: Paris, Central France (Part 1); England (Part 2) (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

This copy of the Decretals of Gregory IX was illustrated in the late 13th Century by the Artist of the Grandes Chroniques de France (Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, MS 782); these consist of six miniatures and some foliate initials (source). Two miniatures of the Trees of Consanguinity and Affinity, in Book 4, were added in England in the early 14th Century - both are available online (source).

The manuscript is known to have been produced after c. 1281 as it includes the Constitutions of the Council of Bruges (13th September 1276) with the gloss of Garsias Hispanus of c. 1281 and decretals of Nicholas III (1277-1280) (source). It contains an added extract from a statute of 1372 of Edward III, King of England (source).

Basic descriptions of the illustrations are provided by the British Library with the facsimile.