Manuscripta juridica

Institutiones . The colour of ink changes from dark brown to light brown. At the beginning of each book, the first word is written in elongated characters in dark blue colour ('Parisian blue'), with vertical red strokes in all spaces, and with dark blue decoration on both sides. At the time when this MS originated this was an oldfashioned style of decoration, practised since times around 1200. The decoration of upper case letters at the beginning of each rubric, in contrast, follows the fashion common in France (and also in Britain) from the end of the 13th century to the end of the 14th century. Other indications of 13th century origin: quaterniones, numbered in Roman numerals (see fol. 8v, 34v), in part lost because bookbinders trimmed the sheets

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Author(s):

• Justinianus imperator

No. of pages: Fol. 1ra-88rb

Rubric: In nomine domini Ihesu Christi. Imperator Cesar Justinianus Flavius ... Gandalicus. Incipit prohemium Institucionum

Incipit:

• Imperatoriam maiestatem

Explicit:

• aduentura est

Colophon: Institutionum imperatoris Justiniani liber quartus explicit