Part 1: ff. 1r-406v

Description: - Parchment - 443 x 285 mm - 2 columns of 81 lines ruled in lead.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XIV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Figurative Decoration: 2 historiated initials with borders containing human figures, animals and birds; numerous inhabited initials.

Other Decoration: 4-line painted initials in pink or red on square white-patterned blue grounds with leafy infilling and marginal extensions; 2- to 3-line initials in alternating blue and red with pen-flourishing in other color.

Notes: Running chapter titles in alternating red and blue roman numerals.




Text 1: ff. 1r-406r

Author: Hostiensis (Henricus de Segusia)

Title: Commentaria super decretalibus

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Includes preface and Books I and II; f. 406v blank except for note in later hand, reading "Hostiensis super primum et secundum decretalium" 

Image 1: f. 1r Historiated initial, Gregory IX; border.

Image 2: f. 4v Inhabited initial; marginal addition enclosed in decorated frame.

Image 3: f. 26v Painted initial; pointing manicule; tie marks for insertion point of marginal material; marginal finding aids (?).

Image 4: f. 56r List of topics, paraph marks.

Image 5: f. 67r Tie marks indicating insertion point for marginal material

Image 6: ff. 189v-190r End of Book I; ruling visible.

Image 7: f. 191r Historiated initial, Gregory IX.

Image 8: f. 222r Inhabited initial.

Image 9: f. 406r End of Book II; reverse offset of fragment of another manuscript that has been pasted to leaf (?).

Image 10: f. 406v Reverse offset of fragment of another manuscript that has been pasted to leaf (?).