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St John's College MS 235 (fragment 37)

JUSTINIAN, Digesta 47.9.10–10.5 (binding fragment)

Language(s): Latin

JUSTINIAN, Digesta 47.9.10–10.5

ed. CJCiv 1:829–31.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Vellum.

Dimensions (leaf): 282 × 196 mm.

Layout

The main text in double columns, each column 195 × 45–9 mm. , with 12 mm between columns, in 44 lines to the page, completely surrounded to the edge of the leaf in all dimensions by a formal gloss.

Hand(s)

The text written in Italy in gothic textura rotunda, s. xiii ex.; the gloss in anglicana formata, s. xiv med.

Decoration

Two-line alternate red and blue lombards on flourishing of the other colour at divisions; names of legists introduced by 1-line alternate red and blue unflourished lombards; the text broken by alternate red and blue paraphs.

History

Origin: s. xiii ex. (text) and s. xiv med. (gloss) ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 37 only.

Record Sources

Ralph Hanna, A descriptive catalogue of the western medieval manuscripts of St. John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Availability

For enquiries relating to this manuscript please contact St John's College Library.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Bibliography

Paul Kruger et al., Corpus Juris Civilis, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1905).

Funding of Cataloguing

Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Thompson Family Charitable Trust

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2022-02: First online publication

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges