Saint Louis University, VFL MS 007

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10013

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 007

Title:

Corpus juris civilis, single leaf

Place:

Bologna

Bologna TGN

Date:

ca. 1280-1290

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 single leaf : parchment, illustrations ; 310 x 230 mm

Former Owner(s):

Fischmann, Milton, d. 1974

Milton Fischmann WIKIDATA

Fischmann, Gail

Gail Fischmann WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Rubric: On fol. a, verso, "De s[an]ctissimus et revere[n]tissimus et deo amabilibus epi[scopi]s et cl[er[ici[s] et mo[n]achi[s] co[n]st[ituti]o [cx]xiii."
Layout: Written in two columns of 50 lines, with surrounding Glossa ordinaria; ruled in lead with single inner and outer bounding lines for text and gloss. Text keyed to gloss by letters of the alphabet.
Annotations: On fol. a, verso, pecia mark ("fi[nit] xiii p[ecia] t[extum]") in lower left margin alongside lefhand text column.
Script: Gothic textualis rotunda (littera bononiensis).
Decoration: On fol. a, verso, 1 figured 4-line initial "D" in pink and white on squared blue ground with white tracery, with the bust of a tonsured monk in a red robe at center; paragraph marks in red and blue, rubrics in red.
Origin: Written and illuminated in Bologna, ca. 1280-1290.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 007.
Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

detached leaves

peciae

illuminated manuscripts

Gothic scripts

decorated initials

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565

Accursius, glossator, approximately 1182-approximately 1260

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977098

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS007_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University