Title supplied by cataloger. Two leaves from the Decretals of Gregory IX (the first leaf contains 1.4.8-1.5.3; the second leaf contains 1.22.3-1.23.10) written in England in the second half of the thirteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-2v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 2 leaves from the same book. Text in 2 columns of 47 lines, ruled in lead; pricking visible in the inner margin. Text written in a litera textualis; the gloss in a rounder noting script. Nota bene hand, f. 1v. 15th century Marginalia. Decoration: 3- to 2-line initials alternating in red and blue with flourishing of the other color. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012. Leaf 2 bears the names "Richard," "Chrisostimos" and the motto "Gloria vos titillat ambos" in one or more seventeenth century English hands. The leaves were apparently once used as pastedowns in a binding to judge from the stains; however their size suggests that they were not originally part of HM 19916 from which they were removed. HM 19916 was acquired by the Huntington Library from...
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