Manuscripta juridica

Decretum Gratiani . Incipit and explicit normal, but the MS is nevertheless incomplete. It lacks the Causae 8-11 and 17-21. No reclamants preserved, but threads of bindings can be seen between the middle sheets quires. Many lower margins have been cut away. British characteristics: Compass pricks also along the inner margins. Text lines drawn in grey pencil. At times British shorthand for "et" in the text, and regularly in the glosses. Initials in pale red and very dark blue (which were uncommon colours in Italian or French MSS of the time). Very neat handwriting of the text, in dark black ink. The initials, in blue and red, alternating, are decorated with tendrils in the opposite colour, stretching upwards and downwards along the rim of the main text. Tendrils also extend to the lower margin of the sheet, thus into the free space below the end of the main text. They are at times elaborately broadened and curved, reminding of similar ornamentats fashionable in Northern Italy between 1160 and 1180 - yet the Italian tendrils of the 12th century were horizontal, and in the present MS they are vertical.

Beautifully decorated initials at the begin of Causae, with gold - probably done at a later time, but still in the 13th century. In fol. 199 a miniature is cut out.

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Author(s):

• Gratianus

No. of pages: (item 1)