Manuscripta juridica

Digesta - Digestum novum . The volume was badly damaged by moisture. The MS is so tightly bound that I was unable to see where gatherings start.

Lines for the main text were drawn with some sharp non-colouring instrument. Some text passages have been erased and were then re-written in tighter handwriting, obviously in order to fit in a longer and more correct version of the text. This shows that the original text of the MS must have had gaps, and these were later filled, probably after comparing the Bolognese text to the unique MS from antiquity which is now at Florence (the 'Littera Florentina').

Capital letters for the inscriptio and for the beginning of text of each individual 'lex' are written in red ink, only. The inscriptiones are complete.

A regular series of reference signs accompanies the outer rim of text columns - see Weigand / Dolezalek, 'Das Geheimnis der Roten Zeichen', ZRG Kan.Abt. 100 (but in the present MS they are written in normal ink, not yet in red ink as it became fashionable from 1160 onward).

In the margins there are many signs 'o' with semicolons to the four sides. Also letters 'R' with dashes to the four sides, letters 'F' also with dashes, letters 'M' with dashes.

The MS also preserves some oldfashioned signs to attract attention to notabilia - as used in the first decades of the twelfth century. Some are accompanied by words 'supra contra' or 'infra contra', spelled out (e.g. fol. 33rb).

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Author(s):

• Justinianus imperator

No. of pages: (item 2)