Part 1: ff. 3r-108v

Description: - Parchment - 448 x 282 mm - Text in 2 central columns; gloss in two columns surrounding text; number of lines per page varies greatly for both text and gloss; ruled with lead; text and gloss ruled separately; gloss sometimes in triangular blocks.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XIV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Figurative Decoration: Numerous historiated and inhabited initials; numerous marginal brackets as faces.

Other Decoration: 2- to 4-line initials in white-patterned pink or blue on pink, blue, and burnished gold grounds with floral and leafy infilling and extensions; 2- to 5-line initials in alternating red and blue with pen-flourishing in other color.

Notes: Copious additional commentary surrounds text and gloss; running book titles in alternating red and blue roman numerals; ff. 1-2 and 109 are the original flyleaves.




Text 1: ff. 3r-108v

Author: Boniface VIII

Other Associate: Johannes Andreas

Title: Liber sextusaddressed to Bologna, with gloss

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Gloss text is the Glossa ordinariaof Iohannis Andreae; fly-leaf texts include extracts from Commentum ad c. Cordiby Iohannes de Borbonio, Commentum ad c. Gratia and "Exemplum et versus contra monachos nigros" 

Image 1: f. 3r Historiated initial, Boniface VIII holding a book.

Image 2: f. 5r Historiated initial, Boniface VIII; copious gloss and added commentary.

Image 3: f. 10v Inhabited initial.

Image 4: ff. 11v-12r Symmetrical layout of gloss, including diamond-shaped text blocks.

Image 5: f. 15v Marginal brackets as faces.

Image 6: f. 21r Added commentary written in triangular space left by triangular block of gloss.

Image 7: f. 30v Inhabited initials.

Image 8: f. 31v Inhabited initial; line filler of words predominating in minums run together.

Image 9: f. 39v Inhabited initials; marginal bracket as face; pointing manicule.

Image 10: f. 65v Symmetrical layout of gloss.

Image 11: f. 66r Ink drawing.

Image 12: f. 70v Inhabited initial, female figure.

Image 13: f. 99v Inhabited initial; very heavily glossed text.

Image 14: f. 108v Inhabited initial.