Harvard University, MS Typ 121

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10613

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 121

Title:

Digestum vetus

Date:

ca. 1300

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 293, [1] leaves, bound : vellum ; 44 cm.

Note:

"Explicit textus digesti veteris" (f. 293r).
With the glosses of Accursius throughout.
Leaves containing chapter-headings are wanting at the beginning of the volume.
Written in a rounded gothic book-hand in two columns, surrounded by commentary in a smaller similar hand, also in two columns, in brown ink.
There are 21 miniatures and ca. 100 illuminated initials with some marginal grotesques. Other initials are in red and blue. The style is northern French.
Bound in 15th-century brown calf with blind tooling, over heavy wooden boards, with bosses and metal corners and feet. There is a small library label under horn on the front board.
In a tray case, 47 cm.
Gift of Philip Hofer in memory of John Milton Perkins Thatcher, 1980.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095566720203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:45730896

Holding Institution:

Harvard University