Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 244
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS4583
- Shelfmark:
- Lewis E 244
- Title:
- Infortiatum
- Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565
Accursius, glossator, approximately 1182-approximately 1260
- Place:
- Bologna, Italy
- Date:
- 1270-1280
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+288+ii; 415 x 243 mm bound to 434 x 272 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988
- Note:
- Some rubbing throughout has faded the script in places
Spine partly detached
Extensive marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands throughout
Additional, smaller page of commentary added bound in as fol. 6
Evidence of historic damage and repairs
Manicules throughout
Binding: Modern blind-stamped pigskin by Franz Hollsteiner of Vienna (his stamp on flyleaf 1v); stamped in gold on spine: "CORPUS JURIS JUSTINIANI 1350-1400. PARIS DIGESTUM"; remains of clasps; modern green slipcase stamped on spine: "JUSTINIAN DIGESTUM INFORTIATUM XIVth CENTURY"
Layout: Primary text: two columns of up to forty-six lines; commentary: two columns of up to ninety-seven lines; ruling in ink and lead point; written area: 390 x 234 mm
Script: Littera bononiensis
Decoration: Fifteen small miniatures at chapter beginnings, fifteen inhabited initials, numerous decorated and colored initials throughout; three marginal drawings; occasional ink line-fillers
Related resource: Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, "Signs of Use" in Reactions: Medieval/Modern exhibition pages, 2016 [online]
Provenance: Hans Peter Kraus, Catalogue 117, no. 7, his name on back flyleaf; Free Library of Philadelphia - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_244.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/lewis_e_244/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
