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Corpus iuris civilis, with glossing

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  • Explicit: haeredes iustam / ignoranciam possent al…
  • Incipit: …temone autem magis additamentum / quam pars navis est
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Date Created
  • circa 1235 to circa 1250
Summary
  • Text and commentary from Book I, Title XVI, 242-246 (De verbum significatione) and Title XVII, 1-42 (De diversis regulis).
Description
  • Decoration: Numerous 3- and 2-line initials in blue with contrasting penwork in red and numerous 1-line initials in red and paraph marks in either blue or red in the main text. In the glossed text, numerous 2-line initials in alternating blue and red with penwork in the contrasting color and running titles in red and blue characters.
  • Codicological notes: Some reader-added glossing. Bifolium.
  • Historical notes: Seller's description states that the original parent manuscript was dated 1238, and is "certainly the first half of the thirteenth century"
  • The descriptions and numbering of individual folios may be updated and/or changed in response to further research that may be undertaken on the manuscripts and as additional folios are added to the collection.
  • Place of origin: Italy (likely Bologna)
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  • SPEC.RARE.MS.MR.FRAG.94
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  • Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, SPEC.RARE.MS.MR.FRAG.94
Extent
  • 1 bifolium : parchment ; 436 x 268 (217 x 156) mm.
  • Layout: Written in 2 columns, main text has 39-41 lines and glossed text has 92-93 lines; ruled in plummet.
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  • The Ohio State University Libraries believes this object is in the Public Domain in the United States; users are responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.
Credit line: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments, The Ohio State University, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library

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