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ANTHOLOGY OF CIVIL LAW, with the Gloss of Accursius, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [southern France], 1269.
i + 90 + i leaves, 415 x 260mm, foliated in modern pencil 111–200 (continuing from the following lot), catchwords throughout, two columns of text surrounded on all four sides by gloss, blank spaces left for decorated initials, decorative space-fillers in the form of animals etc. in ink with yellow wash (ff.139, 144, 148, 163, etc.), (beginning and ending imperfect, and apparently lacking a few leaves elsewhere). Bound in marbled paper over pasteboards with leather spine, matching the following lot.
PROVENANCE:
The manuscript is dated 1269 in a colophon ‘Expliciunt consitutiones Frederici, scripte anno a nativitate domini nostri Ihesu Christi M.CC.lx.ix.’ (f.155).
CONTENT:
Liber Authenticorum, beginning imperfect in Collatio VIII tit.XVI cap.III, at ‘vel unus ex hiis [...]’ (f.1), ending ‘Explicit liber autenticorum’ (in red, repeated in black; f.135); the Liber feudorum (f.135); the Constitutiones of Frederick II, ending with a colophon (see below); the Tres Libri of Justinian, ending in Book XII tit. XLI just after the rubric ‘De metatis et epometicis’ (sic) at ‘[...] et postibus hospitancium’.
The Liber Authenticorum (or Authenticum), is a collection of 96 of the Novellae leges (i.e. laws promulgated between 535, when Justinian’s Codex was compiled, and his death in 565), arranged in nine collationes. The Consuetudines Feudorum, compiled in the 12th century, usually follow the Authenticum in medieval manuscripts, as here. The Codex (or Code) itself was in 12 books, but the last three, the Tres Libri, circulated separately; they end the present volume. The book as originally written may have been a Volumen parvum, i.e. a collection of the shorter texts of the Corpus iuris civilis, in which case the Institutiones would probably have been at the beginning. The Glossa ordinaria is by Accursius, as indicated by 'Ac.' (e.g. at the end of the last two glosses on f.163).
i + 90 + i leaves, 415 x 260mm, foliated in modern pencil 111–200 (continuing from the following lot), catchwords throughout, two columns of text surrounded on all four sides by gloss, blank spaces left for decorated initials, decorative space-fillers in the form of animals etc. in ink with yellow wash (ff.139, 144, 148, 163, etc.), (beginning and ending imperfect, and apparently lacking a few leaves elsewhere). Bound in marbled paper over pasteboards with leather spine, matching the following lot.
PROVENANCE:
The manuscript is dated 1269 in a colophon ‘Expliciunt consitutiones Frederici, scripte anno a nativitate domini nostri Ihesu Christi M.CC.lx.ix.’ (f.155).
CONTENT:
Liber Authenticorum, beginning imperfect in Collatio VIII tit.XVI cap.III, at ‘vel unus ex hiis [...]’ (f.1), ending ‘Explicit liber autenticorum’ (in red, repeated in black; f.135); the Liber feudorum (f.135); the Constitutiones of Frederick II, ending with a colophon (see below); the Tres Libri of Justinian, ending in Book XII tit. XLI just after the rubric ‘De metatis et epometicis’ (sic) at ‘[...] et postibus hospitancium’.
The Liber Authenticorum (or Authenticum), is a collection of 96 of the Novellae leges (i.e. laws promulgated between 535, when Justinian’s Codex was compiled, and his death in 565), arranged in nine collationes. The Consuetudines Feudorum, compiled in the 12th century, usually follow the Authenticum in medieval manuscripts, as here. The Codex (or Code) itself was in 12 books, but the last three, the Tres Libri, circulated separately; they end the present volume. The book as originally written may have been a Volumen parvum, i.e. a collection of the shorter texts of the Corpus iuris civilis, in which case the Institutiones would probably have been at the beginning. The Glossa ordinaria is by Accursius, as indicated by 'Ac.' (e.g. at the end of the last two glosses on f.163).
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