Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.h.14 i

Lost manuscript: 

Textual information

Subject: 
Law
Canon Law
Author of work: 
Gratian
Title of work: 
Decretum
Section: 
Pars Secunda (parts of causae xii, xiv and xv), with gloss
Orientation: 
foot to gutter
Transcription: 

Text only, arranged in sequence:

(verso, right-hand page, col. a [causa xii, quaestio 2, c. lviii) ¦¦causa quasi inofficiosus castigatur ... Qui manumittitur (sic) a cor¦¦

(verso, right-hand page, col. b [causa xii, quaestio 2, c. lxii) ¦¦ actio canonum ac legum auctoritate iu¦¦ Scilicet ... episcopum suum uel patronam¦¦

(recto, left-hand page, col. a [causa xii, quaestio 2, c. lxvi]) ¦¦tionem eos absoluere oportebit¦¦ vero conprouinciale deferatur¦¦ ... [title to c. lxvii:] ... ecclesiasticis  utilitatibus deseruiunt

(recto, left-hand page, col. b [causa xii, quaestio 2, c. lxx]) ¦¦ramus, quantum auri atque argenti ... inopes fame

(recto, right-hand page, col. a [causa xiv, quaestio 6, c. i]) ¦¦uinum comminantes iudicium ... accipere medicinam. Si vero rem

(recto, right-hand page, col. b [causa xv, intro]) ¦¦confessio cruciatibus sit extorquenda. Septimo¦¦ ... officium sibi exequi liceat. Qv¦¦

(verso, left-hand page, col. a [causa xv, quaestio 1, c. i) ¦¦rito queritur que ... cum uult uiuere si¦¦

(verso, left-hand page,  col. b [causa xv, quaestio 1, c. ii) ¦¦uel exercitatione uirium ... facultatem deliberandi¦¦

Palaeography

Type of script: 
Gothic
Place of production: 
England
Date of production: 
s. xiii
s. xiii 1

Material information

Material: 
Parchment
Type of fragment: 
Binding strip
Fragment type detail: 
follows the final original flyleaf
Element of folio: 
strip cut across the bottom of a bifolium
Ruling: 
lightly in plummet, lines crossing the central reservation
Decoration: 

In text, initials in red or blue with blue paraph marks and some red pen-flourishing. No colour used in gloss.

Further information

Notes: 

Layout of added text shows that the interlinear notes were added before the marginal gloss.

Image is of the verso.

 

Date last updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 07:31
Colchester Harsnett H.h.14 i verso

Dimensions

Fragment: 

344mm (h) x 45mm (w)

Number of lines: 
5
Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
2mm
Space between lines: 
4mm
Height of written space: 
20mm
Lower margin: 
25mm
Width of text 1: 
58mm
Reservation 1: 
14mm
Width of text 2: 
57mm
Number of lines (gloss): 
8
Space between lines (gloss): 
4mm
Height of minims (gloss): 
2mm