| Description | Fragment of a leaf from a copy of Justinian's Institutiones, parchment. Main body text in a Gothic textualis rotunda in black, probably originally in two columns, surrounded by a gloss text in a Gothic glossing script. In addition to this there is interlineal annotation and a second gloss or commentary, both in a documentary script in black/brown ink. The annotations and extra commentary are in several hands, showing that this was a heavily used text. With alternating red and blue paragraph marks. There are two manicules, one on the recto and one on the verso, in different hands.
The fragment has been cut on all sides, only one column of the main body text remains but it is virtually intact. The gloss has been cut straight through with substantial loss of text.
The text is from Book III Chapter XV "De Verborum Obligatione". It begins at the start of section I, "in hac re olim talia verba tradita fuerant. spondes spondeo. permittis permitto." The text continues from recto to verso "eo quidem ipso die in quem sti/pulatio facta est peti potest totus...". The last lines of the main text on the verso are obscured by accretions of paper. |
| CustodialHistory | Despite being a fragment of a medieval legal text this item was not listed by Kendall in her calendar of the legal and didactic fragments, and it is likely that she did not see it. This, and the fact that it was stored separately to the rest of the fragments (found in a box with MS FRAG/LAT/69-73) suggests it may have a different provenance to the rest of the collection. |