Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.52 i

Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.52
Textual Information
Subject
Law
Canon Law
Author of work
Gregory IX, pope 1227-41
Title of work

Decretals

Section

Lib. I, tit. xxxvi, cap. xi - xxxviii, cap. 1 (with gloss)

Orientation
inverted
Transcription

(verso, text:) ¦¦ procedas equitate ¦¦ manorem partem de ¦¦ personas causas . . suscepto ¦¦ (rubric [I.xxxvii.1]) De posculando rubrica (text) ... super in ordinibus ¦¦ peccatores etiam iusti ¦¦ (gloss:) defuit habet uerbum sumptum fuit de ¦¦ . . non ista quatuor considera' uir et quidam.

(recto, text:) ¦¦ deam credimur ob ¦¦ monach' in ca ¦¦ habet sit expressum ¦¦ Cum sacer[dotis]¦¦ ... Alia qu[idem]¦¦ ... Re nec presenti ¦¦ (gloss:) necessentes pumantur C. de hiis que latro . . iij.q.j. milli. sicut uas (gl).

 

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura Rotunda
Place of production
N. Italy
Date of production
s. xiv
s. xiv 2
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Pastedown
Fragment type detail

lifted, back, inverted

Element of folio

cutting of perhaps a quarter of the original page

Ruling

none visible

Decoration

Three- and two-line lombards in blue with red penwork flourishing on recto; rubrications; red paraph.

Further information
Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.a.52 i verso
Dimensions
Fragment

154mm (h) x 95mm (w)

Number of lines
27
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
6mm
Height of written space
154mm
Width of written space
95mm
Width of text 1
95mm
Number of lines (gloss)
36
Space between lines (gloss)
4mm
Height of minims (gloss)
2mm