Query: books from the 1310s
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Liber Septimus
Al-Bayan al-Mughrib
De Monarchia
Evidence from documents: Liber Septimus: The '''''Liber Septimus''''' (Latin for Seventh book) may refer to one of three canonical collections of quite different value from a legal standpoint which are known by this title:
(1) The "Constitutiones Clementis V" or "Constitutiones Clementinæ", not officially known as "Liber Septimus", but so designated by historians and canonists of the Middle Ages, and even on one occasion by pope John XXII, in a letter to the Bishop of Strasburg, in 1321. This collection was not even considered a "Liber" (book). It was officially promulgated by Clement V in a consistory held at Monteaux, near Carpentras (southern France) on 21 March 1314, and sent to the University of Orléans and the Sorbonne in Paris. The death of Clement V, occurring on 20 April following, gave rise to certain doubts as to the legal force of the compilation. Consequently, John XXII by his Bull "Quoniam nulla", of 25 October 1317, promulgated it again as obligatory, without making any changes in it. Johannes Andreæ compiled its commentary, or ''glossa ordinaria''. It was not an exclusive collection, and did not abrogate the previously existing laws not incorporated in it (see Corpus Juris Canonici; Papal Decretals).
Al-Bayan al-Mughrib: '''''Kitāb al-bayān al-mughrib fī ākhbār mulūk al-andalus wa'l-maghrib''''' (''Book of the Amazing Story of the History of the Kings of al-Andalus and Maghreb'') by Ibn Idhāri (var. Ibn Athari) of Marrakech in the Maghreb (now Morocco); an important medieval Arabic history of the Maghreb and Iberia, written at Marrakech ca. 1312 / 712 AH . Generally known by its shorter title ''al-Bayān al-Mughrib'' (''The Amazing Story''; ), or even just as ''the Bayān'', it is valued by modern researchers as a unique source of information, and for its preservation of excerpts from lost works.
De Monarchia: A portrait of Dante Alighieri


'''''De Monarchia''''' (, ) is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313. With this text, the poet intervened in one of the most controversial subjects of his period: the relationship between secular authority (represented by the Holy Roman emperor) and religious authority (represented by the Pope). Dante's point of view is known on this problem, since during his political activity he had fought to defend the autonomy of the city-government of Florence from the temporal demands of Pope Boniface VIII. The work was banned by the Catholic Church in 1585.