[titulus, red ink] In nomine domini nostri Ihesu Christi. Imperator Iustinianus, Cesar, Flavius, alamanicus, gotticus, franchus, brittanicus, gremanicus (sic). Indicus, alanicus, uandalicus, affricanus, pius, felix, inclitus, uictor ac trumphator semper augustus, cupide legum uiuentuti rubrica rubricarum.
Incipit: ‘Imperatoriam maiestatem non solum ...’
[Glossa ordinaria]
Incipit: ‘In nomine domini nostri Ihesu Christi ex hoc ...’
f. 70v
Colophon: ‘Explicit ...tus ... Accursii doctoris legis deo gratias.’
[Ownership note in red ink, the owner's name has been erased.]
Iste liber Institutiones est mei (?) de Sauiliano ...us pala...
2 —
Content Analysis:
f. 71r
Secuntur(?) regule decretalium in antiqu...
Secuntur(?) regule iuris civilis
f. 73v
Colophon: ‘Explicit titulus de regulis iu... iure civili’
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
Unitary manuscript
Binding: rebound
Layout: 2 columns; Textus inclusus (Glossa); Running titles/rubrics; Leaf Nr
Illustrations: Illuminated frontispiece with marginal decoration (Bologna/Northern Italy) and a panel depicting four men presenting a book to the enthroned emperor (f. 1r).
Smaller panels at the beginning of each book: six men debating (f. 24v), a man on his deathbed surrounded by four men, one of which is writing his will (f. 36v); one man sitting on a throne, before him four men arguing (f. 55r).
Iconclass: emperor; civil law; witnesses; notary
Support material: paper and parchment
Measurements: 410x260 mm
Extent (leaves): 73
Ruling system: lead-point ruling
Writing: Littera Bononiensis
SEMANTIC INDEXING
Subject: Law-civil (ius civile)
Genre: TEXTUS (Civ)
Period: early medieval; late medieval
Language: Latin
DATA SOURCE & REFERENCES
MS:
Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria D I 23
Completeness: medium — Source: book in hand, bibliography
