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

St John's College MS. 235 (fragment 66)

Unidentified civil law, probably from JUSTINIAN, Digesta (binding fragment)

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Unidentified civil law,

probably from JUSTINIAN, Digesta; one break begins ‘⟨I⟩dem ⟨H⟩oc quod placet si de hereditate […] '

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Vellum.
Extent: Fol. 1, the lower portion of a leaf.
Dimensions (leaf): 310 × 205 mm.

Layout

In double columns, each column 205–10 surviving × 60–5 mm. , with 13 mm between columns, in 44–5 surviving lines to the column. No prickings; bounded in brown crayon, rules faded.

Hand(s)

Written in gothic textura quadrata, s. xiii ex., with numerous anglicana glosses, s. xiv in.

Decoration

Unfinished: blanks for staggered rubrics, guide letters for unfilled capitals; the authorities indicated in the text ink.

History

Origin: s. xiv in.

Provenance and Acquisition

A note ‘de abolitione’; a versus, ‘Lex non iuberet nisi esset voluntas | gratia non iuvaret si sat esset voluntas’ (upside down, s. xvi).

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 66 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.

Funding of Cataloguing

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

Last Substantive Revision

2022-06: First online publication

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