Part 1: ff. 1r-270v

Description: - Parchment - 400 x 250 mm - Text in 2 columns of 50-55 lines ruled in ink; gloss surrounds text and is ruled with slightly less than 2 lines of gloss per one line of text; width and length of gloss columns varies greatly.

Country: Italy

Assigned Date: s. XIV

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: Several.

Script: Gothic and gothic noting hand.

Figurative Decoration: Numerous marginal drawings of animals, birds, and fantastic creatures; many marginal brackets as faces.

Other Decoration: Opening words in 5-line blue letters occupying the width of a column, decorated with red pen-flourishing and geometric designs; 2- to 5-line initials in blue with red pen-flourishing; 1-line initials and paraph marks within text in red.




Text 1: ff. 1r-270v

Author: Justinian (Justinianus)

Other Associate: Accursius (Franciscus Accursius)

Title: Digestum vetuswith gloss

Language(s): Latin

Notes: Primary gloss text is the Glossa ordinariaof Accursius; numerous additional marginal and interlinear commentaries. 

Status of text: Lower edges of ff. 1-25 torn away with consequent loss of text.

Image 1: f. 1r

Image 2: f. 25r Gloss texts in two hands; numerous marginal creatures, one holding an enclosed "nota."

Image 3: f. 74r Display script for opening word; line-filler in minums; marginal grotesques; parchment mended with stitching; copious gloss and additional commentaries.

Image 4: f. 133v Gloss text with space reserved for main text.

Image 5: f. 168r Ownership note in a later hand.

Image 6: f. 164r Marginal creature holding commentary aloft.

Image 7: f. 166r Unfinished text.

Image 8: f. 176r Marginal drawing, man and tree.

Image 9: f. 197v Marginal creatures with scrolls; line filler of words predominating in minums run together.

Image 10: f. 214v Marginal drawing of figure writing; marginal faces and animals; ruling for gloss visible.

Image 11: f. 225r Marginal commentaries enclosed in banners that appear to hang from page hooks on page.