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Leaf from the Digestum
Leaf from the Digest
Leaf from the Digestum
Author of text: Emperor Justinian I (483?–565)
Italian
Medieval (Gothic)
14th century
Place of Manufacture: Italy
Medium/Technique
Ink on parchment
Dimensions
Overall (page dimensions): 30.9 x 22.4 cm (12 3/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number17.534
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts – Manuscripts
Description1 leaf with text from Justinian's Digest (or Digestum), a compilation of legal rules and statutes from the classical jurists, which formed part of the larger Code of Justinian.
Leaf contains the main text from the Digest circumscribed by gloss, or comments on or translations of the main text. 2 columns of 50 primary text lines in Latin, with at least 85 gloss text lines in the inner, outer, and upper margins. Bounding lines in brown plummet, full length to all margins, writing lines brown plummet, crossing intercolumnar space.
Written in a hurried Gothic bookhand, with the gloss in a highly abbreviated and hurried scholastic hand in dark brown ink, gloss slightly lighter. Headings in epigraphic capitals, alternating red and blue, "L[iber]" on verso, "XVII" on recto. Paragraph marks alternating red and blue, one-line initials in blue with minimal red harping or vice versa.
Used as a flyleaf in a later binding.
Leaf contains the main text from the Digest circumscribed by gloss, or comments on or translations of the main text. 2 columns of 50 primary text lines in Latin, with at least 85 gloss text lines in the inner, outer, and upper margins. Bounding lines in brown plummet, full length to all margins, writing lines brown plummet, crossing intercolumnar space.
Written in a hurried Gothic bookhand, with the gloss in a highly abbreviated and hurried scholastic hand in dark brown ink, gloss slightly lighter. Headings in epigraphic capitals, alternating red and blue, "L[iber]" on verso, "XVII" on recto. Paragraph marks alternating red and blue, one-line initials in blue with minimal red harping or vice versa.
Used as a flyleaf in a later binding.
InscriptionsMFA label in upper right corner of verso.
ProvenanceBy 1913, Dr. Denman Waldo Ross (1853-1935), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 1917, gift of Dr. Denman Waldo Ross. (Accession Date: February 15, 1917)
NOTES:
[1] On loan to the MFA by Ross from September 30, 1913.
NOTES:
[1] On loan to the MFA by Ross from September 30, 1913.