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Creator

Justinian

Title

Digest

Date

1300 - 1315

Description

Contents: Contains the rubric and illumination for 10.1.0, "Finium regundorum," to define and settle boundaries between adjacent owners.
Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Script: Gothic
Condition: Irregular shape due to severe cropping (102 X 90 X 91 X 55)
Notes: Italian Gothic (glossularis italiana)
Decoration: Miniature depicting three men before a judge in a dispute about property boundaries.

Relation

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 101

Source

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta101_45

Format

Parchment - 102 x 90 mm - One column visible with 20 visible lines, neither bounding lines nor ruling are visible

Language

Latin

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

Italy