Digesta with commentary (fragment).

Description

Title: Digesta with commentary (fragment).
Creator: Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565
Published / Created: [13--].
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment containing a portion of Justinian's Digest with the Glossa ordinaria commentary of Accursius surrounding it.
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in a gothic script (littera textualis).
Decoration: 3- to 7-line initials of each chapter are orange on a dark blue ground, decorated with light blue, white, and yellow; 2- to 3-line initials of the names of the authorities are blue highlighted with red; 1-line initials following the authorities are red highlighted with blue; other 1-line initials within text are brown and are frequently distinguished with paragraph marks which alternate red and blue; rubrics written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus; text written in the center of the page and surrounded by two columns of commentary in the same hand; other hands have added notes on the text or commentary in the margins.
Provenance: The fragment was used as a wrapper for another volume.
Extent: ff. 1 : 370 x 240 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Law, Medieval
Law, Roman
Subjects: Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Law, Medieval
Law, Roman > Early works to 1800
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Justinian, Digesta with commentary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.