Fragment

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

Lost manuscript
Babel MS 29
Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.h.14
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.

 

Author: David Rundle_
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