| Description | Manuscript volume, containing a copy of the 'Authenticum' of Justinian's 'Novellae Constitutiones'. It was not included in the 19th century editions of Justinian's Novellae but it is very similar to a copy (now missing) from Klosterneuburg described by Gustav Heimbach in 1851, suggesting that both copies shared an examplar. This copy has been heavily corrected throughout and there are many gaps in the original text either due to scribal error or a corrupt exemplar. Although a portion of the end of the manuscript is missing, the text itself is an unusually early codified version of the 'Authenticum'. It includes a copy of a note originally of the sixth century, which gives a description of the original bilingual [Latin and Greek] collected Novellae, and several sets of unique pre-Accursian glosses datable between the late twelfth and mid thirteenth centuries.
Collation: 1-9(8), 10(6), 11(8), 12(1). ff.ii+87+ii, 325x200mm, written space 220x120mm. 2 columns of 46-49 lines. In several hands, with some small drawings. 19th Century binding.
Ker suggests this manuscript was probably produced in France, as the 13th century marginalia are in a French hand. |
| 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 | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |
| PublnNote | L. Loschiavo, Un singolare manoscritto londinese dellAuthenticum (London, University College Library, Ogden 5), in P. Maffei and G.M. Varanini (eds), "Honos alit artes". Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri (Florence, 2014), vol. III, pp. 73-82 [Italian] |