[ILLUMINATION] [CANON LAW]. [DECRETALES]. [GRÉGOIRE IX] Feuille extrait des Décrétales de Grégoire IX, Liber I. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment. With three pen-and-ink drawings in the margins. South of France, Avignon?, Toulouse or Montpellier?, circa 1325-1350. Dimensions: 243 x 156 mm Sheet extracted from a glossed manuscript, central text on two columns, gloss elements arranged around the central text, round Gothic "littera bononiensis" script, headings in red, numerous contemporary or near-contemporary annotations in the margins, small initials painted red or blue, painted initials in red or blue with purple or red filigree decoration (3 lines high), large initial M decorated in blue with white highlights, on a red background with orange and blue floral decoration and liquid gold, large historiated initial D, with head of a male figure wearing a headdress, initial traced in pink ink with white highlights, on a blue background, extension of the initial in the margin in blue, dark red and liquid gold. Truncated leaf, trimmed on the sides, affecting the text of the gloss. Text: recto, Liber Sextus Decretalium, Liber I, titulus XVIII, De servis non ordinandis et eorum manumissione [lacks beginning; present are capitulum 1-5 and beginning of capitulum 6]; verso, Liber Sextus Decretalium, Liber I, titulus XVIII, De servis non ordinandis et eorum manumissione [continued and end, capitulum 6-8]; titulus XIX, De obligatis ad ratiocinia ordinandis, vel non (note that the heading on this sheet reads "obligandis" and not "ordinandis"); titulus XX, De corpore vitiatis ordinandis vel non (the heading on this sheet reads only "De corpore viciato", capitulum 1 and 2. - Glossed text: Bernardo da Parma, Glossa ordinaria. This leaflet is taken from the Liber Sextus Decretalium compiled under Gregory IX, known as the "Decretals of Gregory IX". Although it is not the same manuscript, the present manuscript can be compared with leaves such as the one in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cutting Fr. 2, Decretales, liber III, "probably Southern France (Languedoc?), c. 1330-1340). See S. L'Engle, Illuminating the Decretalium. L'Engle, Illuminating the Law, London and Turnhout, 2001, no. 14, pp. 204-206. The ink drawings in the margins do not seem to refer to the text of the Decretales. They include a crowned king holding a scepter and a hanged man (suicide). A third drawing on the right is paler and difficult to identify. In another manuscript of the Decretals, known as the "Smithfield Decretals" (London, BL, Royal 10 E IV: South of France, 14th century), there is a hanged figure in the lower margin. However, we have been unable to make a link with the texts on this leaf, unless it is related to the gloss (truncated in this leaf).