Manuscripta juridica

Digesta - Digestum novum . Incipit and explicit normal. One scribe wrote both the text of the corpus and of the apparatus, applying the typical script of the time for legal texts. Most quires are seniones (French fashion), very few quaterniones. The inscriptiones (only furnishing the name of the pertinent jurist) are situated at the right side above the real beginning of the real text of the lex (this, too, was a French fashion). Paragraph marks and their ornaments are elongated in French fashion. The miniatures use dark blue colour as fashionable in France, not the Italian light blue. Beautiful French miniatures at the beginning of each book. Beautifully decorated initial letters for each jurist's name and each first word of a lex. Much gold was used. Reclamants, however, are stiled in Italian fashion, namely they are situated under the middle of the quires' last page. They are close to the lower rim (e.g. fol. 25v, 49v, 96v, 306v, 330v, 342v, 354v), therefore many of them were cut off by the bookbinders. Few are framed. In addition, some quires bear a numbering in Arabic figures on the lower rim of their first and last page. On fol. 332r-343r the quire is numbered in Arabic figures.

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Author(s):

• Justinianus imperator

No. of pages: Fol. 1ra-375rb