[Digestum novum cum Glossa ordinaria Accursii].

Digestum novum (Robbins Ms. 37)

[Digestum novum cum Glossa ordinaria Accursii].

Secundo folio: memoria siue non extet

[England?], [c. 1300]

181 leaves : parchment ; 403 x 255 (265 x 113) mm bound to 140 x 260 mm

Incomplete and acephalous copy of the Digestum novum from 39.3.1.4 to 50.17.141. Bottom of fol. 1-2, 26-59 worn; fol. 24-26 cut but repaired; large pieces cut from fol. 23, 110, 116, 117; the fol. after 169 was torn off. It seems to have been the working and studying copy of many different people, being full of marginal and interlinear notes by various hands regarding both the text and the Accursian gloss.

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (modern paper) + 181 + i (modern paper); 1-3¹² 4¹² (-1) 5¹⁰ 6-7¹² 8¹² (-5) 9-10¹² 11¹² (-1) 12¹⁰ 13-14¹² 15⁶ 16¹² (-3) 17⁴ (-3); catchwords.
Layout: Fol. 1r-176v, written in two columns o 47 lines, below top line; fol. 177r-181v, written in 42 long lines, below top-line. The text is surrounded by an extensive marginal gloss of up to 104 lines.
Script: Written in textualis libraria script, similar to the littera oxoniensis, with the gloss written in a semi-textualis. The text is written in black ink while the gloss is written in brown ink.
Decoration: Some chapter headings written in 8-line capital or uncial letters, in blue penworked in red. Red and blue 2-line initials throughout the text. Red rubrics; red and blue paragraph marks in the text and and red ones in the gloss. Many line-fillers in brown ink. The manuscript abounds in marginal drawings, some of them associated with hunting and the military profession: fol. 36r and 140r, hare hunting; fol. 106r, soldiers climbing a ladder; fol. 106v, man and woman holding hands; fol. 106, harnessed horse; fol. 115v, torso of a horse; other drawings on fol. 109r, 100rv, 113v, 126rv, 129rv, 134r, 139r, 141v, 174v (a list of drawings is provided on the inside of the back cover, in pencil, by a 20th century hand.).
Origins: Written in England ca. 1300 based on paleographical evidence.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 37.

In Latin.

According to a note in an exquisite 18th or 19th-century hand pasted on the inside of the back cover, this manuscript is supposedly the first volume of a two-volume work produced in England no later than the early 12th century. The note refers to volume two of the set (now Robbins MS 36) as including several ownership marks, some of which are of the late 14th century; the note also says that that book at some unspecified date was also in the possession of a priest from Chicheley. The whole note is wrong on many counts: although it is probably true that Robbins MSS 36 and 37 were considered to be a set in the 15th century (judging from the fact that both contain notes in an English hand), they were surely not written at the same time or in the same place. On inside front cover, written in pencil by a 20th-century hand: "begins in O.39.I.4."

Bound in dark brown paper over pasteboard; quarter bound in brown leather. Gold-tooled title on spine: "Digestum Novum Saec. XIV. I.". Front cover detached.

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL: Use of original only by permission. Inquiries concerning this item should be directed, in writing, to the reference librarian for The Robbins Collection.

England.

Robbins MS 37

Latin