Digestum vetus (fragment).

Description

Title: Digestum vetus (fragment).
Published / Created: approximately 1230-1250.
Publication Place: Germany?
Abstract: Manuscript fragment, on parchment, from a manuscript of the Digestum vetus, text and commentary, with an illumination representing the jurist Ulpian. Used as a binding for a seventeenth-century account book pertaining to the Brotherhood of Saint Martin, the dyer's guild
Description: In Latin.
Layout: double columns.
Script: gothica textualis.
Decoration: Large rectangular historiated initial in blue and orange containing a three-quarter figure representing the jurist Ulpain. Rubricated. Two and three-line initials in blue and red; paraph marks in red.
Provenance: Purchased from Sokol Books on the T. Kimball Brooker Italian Renaissance Fund, 2020.
Extent: 1 leaf : approximately 305 mm x approximately 210 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Digestum vetus
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Germany > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Digestum vetus (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.