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Lex romana Visigothorum (Breviarium Alarici)

IX.15.2-17.1

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Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties, Ms. 1095

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title <i>Lex romana Visigothorum</i>
Shelfmarks Leuven, KU Leuven Bibliotheken Bijzondere Collecties, Ms. 1095
Former Shelfmarks Fragm. 102; Fragm. H. Omont 2 A
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Spain or Southern France
Date of Origin first half 7th century
Script, Hands

Uncial script, 1 hand.
General Remarks

Fragment consisted of two leaves when they were first discovered; one of the leaves is now kept part of the collection of UCLouvain University Library (Louvain-la-Neuve).

Original Condition

Page Height 309 mm
Page Width 230 mm
Height of Written Area 238 – 240 mm
Width of Written Area 210 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 210 mm
Number of Lines 27 – 29
Line Height 9 – 10 mm
Ruling Full blind-point ruling, with prickings in both margins
More about the Condition

Running titles ('LIB VIIII', 'THEODOSIANI') in upper margins.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 309 x 230 mm
More about the Current Condition

Fragment has been torn almost in half along the horizontal crease; upper inside corner has disappeared.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

No decoration executed.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Chindasuinth (compiler)
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title <i>Lex romana Visigothorum (Breviarium Alarici)</i>
    • Content Description

      Lex romana Visigothorum, 9.15.2 - 9.17.1.
    • fol. [1]r
    • Edition McCormick, Michael, ‘An Unknown Seventh-Century Manuscript of the Lex Romana Visigothorum’, Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, new series, 6 (1976), 10-12

History

Provenance

Fragments were at one point held by French paleographer Henri Auguste Omont (1857-1940); Leuven University Library aquired Omont's collection in 1949–50.
Persons and Institutions Henri Auguste Omont (previous owner)

Host Volume

Remarks

Fragments were used as flyleaves since at least the fourteenth century. The other fragment of the sam set, now kept in the library of UCLouvain, contains fourteenth-century probationes pennae in Latin and Middle French.

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