| Description | Leaf from a copy of Justinian's Institutiones, parchment. The fragment is from Part III, "De Senatus Consulto Tertulliano". Main body text in two columns in black in a protogothic hand with alternating red and blue decorated initials and red and blue paragraph marks, and red rubrics. Two large decorated initial letters P on the recto worked in red and blue in a typical Italian style. Main body text surrounded by a gloss text in two sections in black in a Gothic cursive hand. There are also minute interlineal annotations in a contemporary hand. The right-hand edge has been cut and/or torn and some of the gloss text may be missing. The gloss may be by Accursius, but some traces of an earlier gloss, largely erased, can be seen beneath. In her calendar of selected fragments, Kathryn Kendall suggests that the original gloss may have been by Irnerius and was contemporary with the main body text (c.1150). The Accursius gloss is probably around 80 years later.
There is a modern pencil annotation "E13 A14" on the verso. |
| AdminHistory | Probably created in Italy. Old packaging labelled "Justinian + Accursius / Italy 12th + 13th Cent.". |