New York University, Large Fragment 3 and Large Fragment 4

Metadata

DS ID:

DS424

Shelfmark:

Large Fragment 3 and Large Fragment 4

Title:

Liber Sextus Decretalium, commentary on

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, ff. 1-2v: Space reserved for 2- and 3-line initials (never completed).
Script, ff. 1-2v: Cursive hand (tall f and s, below the line).
Layout, ff. 1-2v: 2 columns, frame ruled, written above top line.
Watermarks, ff. 1-2v: Crown centered on the leaf but under text and not legible.

Note:

ff. 1-2v: Notes in the margins (mainly cropped along one side of the leaves); the notes are in a better hand than the main text.
ff. 1-2v: The Liber Sextus was compiled under the order of Boniface VIII, and approved on 3 March 1298; here, this book of canon law is in an unidentified commentary, containing 1.3.11 through 1.3.15. On f. 2, in the lower margin, verso, upside down with respect to the original text (but presumably right side up when the leaf was used as a pastedown in another book), a list of Latin names...

Holding Institution:

New York University