Part 1: ff. 1r-294v

Description: - Parchment - 400 x 280 mm - Text in 2 columns of 36 lines; gloss in 2 columns surrounding text with number of lines per page and width of columns varying greatly; ruling accomodates both text and gloss; verical bounding lines in hard point, horizontal in lead.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XIIIex/XIVin

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: Several

Script: Littera bononiensis, gothic, and noting hand.

Figurative Decoration: Numerous marginal ink drawings of human figures, animals and birds.

Other Decoration: 2- to 3-line initials in alternating red and blue with pen-flourishing in other color; 1-line initials within text in alternating red and blue; headings and paraph marks in red; calligraphic display script following some initials.

Notes: Strips of parchment have been added to edges of ff. 1-84 and to many leaves following; small leaf tipped in between ff. 126 and 127.




Text 1: ff. 1r-294v

Author: Gregory IX

Other Associate: Bernardus de Botone Parmensis, Iohannes Andreae

Title: Liber extraaddressed to Bologna, with gloss

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Liber extraup to X.5.40.32; commentary texts include Glossa ordinaria in decretalesby Bernardus de Botone Parmensis, Lectura in Decretales Gregorii IXby Iohannes Andreae, Additiones ad glossam ordinariumand Casus Decretalium 

Image 1: f. 1r Display script for title; visible repair work to outer edges of this and following folio.

Image 2: f. 9r Ink drawing; numerous interlinear and marginal additions; marginal letters linking text and commentary.

Image 3: f. 19r Manicule holding flower to link commentary to appropriate lines of text.

Image 4: f. 28r Ink drawing, human head in lion's mouth.

Image 5: f. 34r Repair to edges of leaf; hole in parchment showing hair-side coloring of following leaf; narrow, short columns for commentary.

Image 6: f. 54r Ink drawing; wide, long columns for commentary.

Image 7: f. 70v Space left at top of text column; display script, line fillers in text columns.

Image 8: f. 76r Multiple layers of commentary, filling almost entire writing surface.

Image 9: f. 78r Marginal additions in blocks of varying widths.

Image 10: ff. 84v-85r Catchword.

Image 11: ff. 105v-106r Ink drawings, manicules, sparse commentary.

Image 12: ff. 126av-127r Leaf tipped in; ink drawing; repair to leaf edge.

Image 13: f. 136r Nota" inclosed in scroll and held in the claws of a bird in flight.

Image 14: ff. 170v-171r Commentary arranged in symmetrical frame despite its brevity; running book titles.

Image 15: ff. 193v-194v Multiple layers of commentary, several different hands.

Image 16: f. 294v Ends defectively.