Digesta with glossa ordinaria of Accursius (fragment)

Description

Title: Digesta with glossa ordinaria of Accursius (fragment)
Creator: Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1350].
Publication Place: Italy (Bologna?)
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of Justinian's Digesta with the glossa ordinaria commentary of Accursius
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in two sizes of gothic script (littera textualis), with a larger script for the text and a smaller script for the commentary (notularis), possibly by a different hand; later marginal and interlinear notes in a cursive hand.
Decoration: 1-line initials are enlarged minuscule forms, preceded by a paragraph mark in blue; running chapter number "II" in the upper center of both sides is red and blue; punctuated with the punctus, though rarely.
Provenance: The fragment was used as a binding; Hartmut Hoffman suggests the possibility that the fragment derives from the archive of the Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg.
Extent: 1 leaf : 319 x 216 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.
Law, Roman
Subject (Name): Accursius, glossator, approximately 1182-approximately 1260.
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Law, Medieval
Subjects: Accursius, glossator, approximately 1182-approximately 1260
Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Law, Medieval > Early works to 1800
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 glossa ordinaria of Accursius (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.