Manuscript fragment on parchment of a commentary on chapters of either Innocent IV's third collection of Decretals from the first council of Lyon in 1245 or the Sixth Book of Decretals of Pope Boniface VIII
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis) with frequent abbreviations., and Decoration: 2-line chapter initials are in red; 1-line initials within text are in brown capitals; rubrics written in red minuscule; guide letters for the rubricator in the margins; punctuated with the punctus.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303. and Innocent IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1254.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the Casus Breves Decretalium Gregorii IX, which is closely related to Bernard of Parma's Casus longi super quinque libros decretalium; the commentary paraphrases Bernard but is much more abbreviated
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in a small, highly abbreviated gothic script (littera textualis)., and Decoration: there are guide letters and space for rubrics and initials but none have been added; a fourteenth-century hand has added some rubrics in brown in a cursive gothic script; punctuated with the punctus.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of Decretales, containing the end of an unidentified text and a text containing a portion of the Synod of Tribur (895).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule., and Decoration: 2-line capital "A" is a red square capital; 1-line initials are in brown capitals; the rubric is written in red minuscule; punctuated with the punctus.
