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Azo of Bologna, Summa Codicis

Book 9, titles 1–8

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Victoria, B.C., University of Victoria Libraries, Fragm.Lat.3

Erik Kwakkel, University of Victoria, 2006 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

Description produced for University of Victoria Libraries (Special Collections) in 2006.

General Information

Title Roman law fragment
Shelfmarks Fragm.Lat.3
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France?
Date of Origin 1200–1250
Script, Hands

Main text and rubrics by one scribe in a very small bookhand ( littera textualis , 1200-50)

  • high amount of abbreviations
  • the rubric 'De privatis carceribus inhibendis', on verso, is written on erasure by a fifteenth-century hand ('De' still in hand of main text)
  • paragraphs in red and blue (alternating)
  • writing above topline.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 300 x 190 mm (265 x 163)
More about the Current Condition

Parchment sheet (half a bifolium), trimmed severely on all sides, which was used as a pastedown in a bookbinding (visible are some traces of glue on recto, green offset marks from the brass fittings for the clamps of the bookbinding, as well as significant damage to the surface on recto from removing the fragment)

  • 2 columns, 83 lines
  • traces of ruling (plummet); no pricking visible
  • hair implant visible on verso.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Initials in red and blue (alternating), placed outside text block.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Content Description

      The fragment follows the division found in the Codex of Justinian in the  Corpus Iuris Civilis , and it contains the same headings: the first visible rubric reads' De accusationibus et inscriptionibus' (CJ.9.2.0), the last 'Ad legem iuliam maiestatis '(CJ.9.8.0). However, the (Roman) law text in the fragment is not part of the  Corpus Iuris Civilis . 

History

Provenance

Purchased through Erik Kwakkel in July 2006 from the collection of Herman Mulder (Hombeek, Belgium), who bought it from Antiquariaat Hermione, Maastricht, the Netherlands, on May 31, 1994. It may previously have belonged to a batch of fragments from the collection of JJ Timmers, which was sold by Hermione in the early 1990s (see PFJ Obbema, 'A fifteenth-century calendar as a folding sheet', in  Quaerendo  24 (1994), p.297).

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