Institutiones (Robbins Ms. 69)

[Institutiones cum glossa] ; [Defensorium iuris] ; [Apparatus in Librum sextum Decretalium].

Secundo folio: Nam p[er] hoc q[uod] ip[s]e

[Germany?], 1468.

255 leaves : paper ; 310 x 215 (225 x 1250) mm bound to 325 x 220 mm
1 microfilm reel : positive (Robbins MS 69)

This manuscript contains three important works related to canon and civil law: the "Institutiones" by Justinian I with marginal annotations (not Accursius's gloss); a short comment on Institutes of Gaius 1.4; the Defensorium iuris by a Cistercian monk named Gerardus Monachus; and Giovanni d'Andrea's Apparatus to the Liber Sextus. Pastedown includes the fragmentary text of a notarial instrument from the diocese of Halberstadt, Germany. The manuscript was copied by at least three different hands. First leaf (fol. i) includes a table of contents; second (fol. ii) contains a short note beginning "Sanctorum qui vult" as well as "Phillipps Ms. 576"

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper (watermarks: Mons, similar but not identical to Briquet 11804; Tete de bœuf, similar but not identical to Briquet 14871), fol. ii (modern paper) + 255; 1¹⁴ (+1, -2) 2-5¹² 6¹² (-5, fol. 65), 7-16¹² 17¹² (-12) 18¹⁴ 19¹² 20¹² (-10) 21¹⁴. Frame-ruled in lead; written below top line. Catchwords in the right corner of the bottom margin, on verso, by the hand of the scribe. Leaves 3-102 foliated 1-100 by a contemporary hand.
Layout: Fol. 1r-203v, written in long lines of up to 51; fol. 205r-236r, written in long lines of 48; fol. 242r-253v, written in long lines of up to 56 long.
Script: Written in hybrida libraria, semi-hybrida, and cursivia libraria by at least three different hands.
Decoration: Fol. 1r, a 6-line red penworked initial. Red and blue Lombard initials mostly on 2 lines, very rarely penworked. Red rubrics, red paragraph signs and initials touched in red throughout the text. Red running titles.
Origin: Fol. 1r-203v, written in Germany in 1468 (the date is stated in the colophon); other two sections likely written in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 69.

In Latin.

The manuscript once belonged to one Martinus Niitel (contemporary ex libris in red ink on end pastedown: "Martinus Niitel, baccalarius in utroque jure, est possessor hujus ...)." On the inside back cover, there is a note concerning a price: "Nota LXXXI aurei faciunt libr[arum] VIII auri ut iusti de ... ", written by a 15th century hand. The book was at one time in the library of Leander van Esp (his MS 192 probably inventoried in 1823), then it became part of the collection assembled by Sir Thomas Phillipps ("Phillipps Ms. 576" on fol. iir; his stamp with lion rampant on fol. iv); thereafter it passed into the hands of R.S. Saxton.

Bound in blind-stamped dark calf over oak boards, 15th century, rebacked; stamps and fillets. Red, yellow, and green headbands. Metal corner pieces; two clasps, missing; some worm holes; hole in the outer edge of back cover; holes in the center of both front and back cover; evidence of bosses or plates. Paper flyleaves. Title on spine: "Justinian Institutes."

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

Justinian Institutes

Germany.

Robbins MS 69

Latin

Giovanni d'Andrea, approximately 1270-1348. Apparatus in Librum sextum Decretalium (Robbins Ms. 69)