| Description | Double folio, parchment, from a copy of Justinian's Codex. Main body text in two columns in black ink surrounded by gloss, also black. With red rubrics, alternating red and blue paraphs and particoloured initials in red and blue with purple and red decoration (for titles); other initials in red and blue with red/blue decoration. The text, titles and gloss are in a litera rotunda italiana, or rounded Italian Gothic, by the same hand.
The text on this folio is taken from Book VIII.LV "De Revocandis Donationibus" and IX.III "De Custodia Reorum". Main body text with gloss by Accursius. Text begins beneath the top line. There are several annotations, including some 13th or 14th century on f.2r, 15th or 16th century on f.1r, and an anotation across the text on f.2r which reads "Chevigny 11e [deuxieme] Registre du 8 Fevrier 1699 au 9 Xbre 1602". Also in the central margin of f.2r is a pencil annotation in German, possibly 19th or 20th century.
A large illuminated initial has been cut out of f.1v (affecting f.1r); a fragment of gilding can still be seen beneath the hole. Two smaller initials have also been cut out of the same folio. Remaining text is faded but clearly legible, with marginal decorations in ink including manicules and faces. Both folios suffer from dirt, tears, pest holes, creases and stains. 440x283mm. |
| AdminHistory | Justinian I (Flavius Justinianus, originally called Petrus Sabbatius): born, 483; Byzantine emperor, 527-565; died at Constantinople, 565; noted for his reorganization of imperial government and for sponsoring a codification of laws by committees of jurists, known as the "Codex Justinianus", comprising collections of new and existing laws and legal interpretations, including extracts of the opinions of the great Roman jurists. The code of Justinian consists of four books: (1) Codex Constitutionum; (2) Digesta, or Pandectae; (3) Institutiones; (4) Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem. |
| CustodialHistory | Originated in Italy, has French annotation. |