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St John's College MS 235 (fragments 51 and 53)

JUSTINIAN, Digesta (binding fragments)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

JUSTINIAN, Digesta,

7.1.43–63, ed. CJCiv 1:132–3 (no. 51) and unidentified early portions of 7.1 (no. 53).

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fols. 2 (both fragments).
Dimensions (leaf): 308 × 210 mm.
(+13 mm folded under).

Layout

Written almost completely ( 35 mm margin, on the edges): at the centre, in double columns, each column 220–30 × 58 mm. , with 12 mm between columns, in 58 lines, surrounded by gloss columns 75–80 mm wide on the leading edge, 70–4 surviving written lines. No edges for prickings; bounded and ruled in lead.

Hand(s)

Written in (?) Italy in gothic textura semiquadrata (text) and a more formal quadrata (the gloss), s. xiii in.

Decoration

Sections of both text and gloss introduced by 1-line unflourished red lombards; red paraphs to break the text.

History

Origin: s. xiii in. ; (?) Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragments 51 and 53 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

Last Substantive Revision

2022-04: First online publication

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