Photostats of manuscripts of Marsilius of Padua, Defensor pacis

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Scope and Content

Photostats of manuscripts of Marcilius of Padua, Defensor pacis:

  • Tortosa, Bibl. de Cabildo 141, fols. 1-100r, 14th century
  • Vienna, Nationalbibliothek lat. 464, fols. 1-117r, 14th century
  • Vienna, Nationalbibliothek lat. 809, fols. 1-123r, 15th century
  • Bruges, Bibliothque publique 557, fols. 1-10, 13-17, 19-20, 14th century
  • Auxerre, Bibliothque de la ville 19, fol. 3r, 14th century (photograph).

Administrative / Biographical History

Marcilius of Padua (fl 1277-1342) was an Italian political theorist who taught in Paris and Nuremberg. His Defensor pacis (1324) examined the roles of church and state.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

Given to the Library in 1942.

Note

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

A description is available in the Library, where there is also a card index to unpublished catalogues.

Bibliography

See C. W. Previt-Orton (ed.) The Defensor pacis of Marsilius of Padua (Cambridge: 1928).