Manuscripta juridica

Digesta - Infortiatum: (D.26.1.1 ss., text breaking off in D.37.4.12pr. 'adcrescit si vero') . The text descends from at least two different model manuscripts.

The last fascicle (now the twelfth) is older than the preceding ones. Its text begins with D.35.2.82 'tres partes'. Its inscriptiones are complete, and it bears a fascicle numbering 'i'. We can thus infer that it previously was the first fascicle in a volume which went from D.35.2.82 to the end of Digesta (= the old 'Digestum novum').

The preceding eleven quires are younger. They bear a fascicle numbering from 'i' to 'xi'. Their text ends in D.35.2.82 before the words 'tres partes'. After this end of the text, there is still much free space left until the end of the sheet. We can thus infer that such eleven preceding fascicles were produced in view of joining them to the pre-existing older sheets from D.35.2.82 onward. Part of the text in these younger fascicles has complete inscriptiones: namely D.26.1.1 - D.27.3.19 and D.28.2.1 to the end of D.34.4. We may thus suspect that the text D.27.3.20 to the end of D.28.1 was copied from a different model manuscript.

The producers of this manuscript obviously wanted to reconstitute the original subdivision of the Digesta into two bulky volumes D.1-25 and D.26-50. This original subdivision in only two volumes must have been known to them from some model manuscript which is today no longer extant.

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Author(s):

• Justinianus imperator

No. of pages: (item 1)

Literature quoting this item: Van de Wouw, Ius Commune 11 (1984) 233-234