Colophon: ‘Decretorum codex impressus singulari industria atque impensa Nicolai Jenson Gallici Venetijs. M.cccc.lxxvii. Sixto quarto pontifice maximo.’
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
Illustrations: The opening illustration depicts a jurist in a chair addressing a monk, a crippled man and another jurist. Illuminated initials with geometric and vegetal motifs, some of which are accompanied by squares with natural images (trees, birds, various animals).
Iconclass: scholar, philosopher; armchair, seat; crippled; crutches; monk(s), friar(s); tonsure; blockbook - MM - book open; trees; birds; dog; beasts of prey, predatory animals: fox