Manuscripta juridica

Constitutio . This constitution has been added by a second scribe. It is not included in the indexes at the beginning of the manuscript. The constitution proclaims the Holy Year of 1450. Incorporated into it are the two decrees of Nicholas' predecessors, Clement VI and Gregory XI, on the Jubilee

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Author(s):

• Nicolaus V papa

No. of pages: Fol. 769-773v

Incipit:

• Immensa et innumerabilia sunt [and then:] diuine misericordie munera

Explicit:

• conspectui semper assistunt, intercessores habere mereantur ... Nulli ergo, etcetera, nostri innouationis approbationis communitionis constitutionis statuti et ordinationis infringere, et cetera. Anno incarnationis dominice millesimo quadringentesimo quadragesimo nono quartodecimo kalendas Februarii pontificatus nostri anno secundo.

  This manuscript (like Vat. lat. 12570 and 12572) was in the Vatican Archives until being transferred in this century to the Vatican Library. The shelfmark of these manuscripts in the Archives was Arm. XXXII n.49. Several notes on the title page of the manuscript refer to indexes in the Archives listing this manuscript (e.g. Index Bullarii Ormanetti). See Singer in the article cited below for a full account of these references.

  The present manuscript may have originated in the Archives as a formulary or as a handbook of important late medieval extravagantes; see the reference on fol. 122v to the registers of Gregory VII. The manuscript may have been used in the compiling of the Liber Septimus Decretalium Clementis VIII papae. Although similar to Vat. lat. 12570 in its scope and provenance, Vat. lat. 12571 has no obvious relationship to that manuscript.

  Bibliography: On the manuscript see Heinrich Singer, Das c. Quia frequenter, ein nie in Geltung gewesenes 'Papstwahldekret' Innozenz' IV. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Frage der Selbstwahl im Konklave, ZRG KA 6 (1916) 88-90; Norman P Zacour, 'Papal Regulation of Cardinals' Households in the Fourteenth Century,' Speculum 50 (1975) 434-55 passim. For bibliography on late medieval collections of extravagants see Vat. lat. 2548 and Stickler, Historia, pp. 364-65