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Volumen parvum
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i paper flyleaf pasted to green leather + 311 fols. (foliated i-iv, 1-307) + i paper flyleaf pasted to green leather, 398 x 250 mm (360 x 230 mm), two columns of main text 210 x 120 mm, 38-42 lines, surrounded by varying number of gloss lines on two, three or four sides, ruled in plummet, running headers, catchwords, pecia marks.
BINDING: Eighteenth century, gold-tooled calf over pasteboards.
CONTENTS: fols. i verso – ii recto Johannes Bassianus, Arbor actionum; fols. iii recto and iv verso Fragments from a title list
fols. 1r-73v Justinian, Institutiones with Accursius, Apparatus ad Institutiones; fols. 74r-211v Justinian, Authenticum with Accursius, Apparatus ad Authenticum; fols. 212r-283r Justinian, Tres libri with Accursius, Apparatus ad Tres libros; fols. 284r-307v Libri feudorum with Accursius, Apparatus ad Libros feudorum.
DECORATION: Two full-page framed tables of the Arbor actionum containing 180 medallions classifying praetorian lawsuits on the left (verso) and civil suits on the right (recto), with two figures (female on the verso, male on the recto) standing in the inner margins and holding onto the tables’ frames (fols. i verso – ii recto).
ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initials [3 ll.] with simple red pen flourishing for titles on fols. 212r-283r only, spaces left blank for initials, with guide letters visible, in the rest of the text; red penwork one-line initials; alternate red and blue paraph marks; blue and bronze bars added probably in the early modern period to the title list (fols. iii recto and iv verso), the one on fol. iii recto extending into a heavy bunch of fruit; similar foliage and fruit ornament added at some of the major text divisions where the original campaign left blank spaces for large initials or small column miniatures (e.g. fol. 212r); blue, green and bronze colouring added to the tables of the Arbor actionum and to some of the blue penwork initials.
History note: Purchased of Hoepli. Frank McClean (1837-1904), his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
13th Century, Late-14th Century, Early
Production date:
circa
AD 1300
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 139
Primary reference Number: 178878
Project ID: 734
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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