Fragment

Oxford: Christ Church, ZP.5.17 i

Lost manuscript: 
Babel MS 41
Host volume: 
Oxford: Christ Church, ZP.5.17

Textual information

Subject: 
Law
Canon Law
Title of work: 
Decretals (with commentary)
Section: 
lib. IV, tit. iii, xvii-xviii
Orientation: 
upright, reversed
Transcription: 

Text only:

[back, inside, col. b: tit. ii, cc. x-xi] ||. . .debes . . .|| ||dare . . . dictus puer||

[back, outside, col. a: tit. iii, c. iii] ||. . .tur expresse|| ||t super hoc . . . modo proles||

[back, outside, col. b: tit. xvii, c. xiii] ||quod non solum in ecclesia . . . sequerisque eorum sin||

[front, outside: tit. xvii, c. xiii] ||parari. Paulus etiam ut plenitudinem potestatis . . . alimenta petitioni tue non duximus||

[front, inside: tit. xviii, cc. i-iii] ||iri, licet quinquennium sit . . . [c. 2 omitted] . . . suam genealogiam||

[back, inside, col. a: tit. xviii, cc. iv-v] || legitimo tempore acced|| ||et copule . . . repellentes|| ||tium imponatis||

 

Palaeography

Type of script: 
Gothic
Script detail: 
textura rotunda
Place of production: 
Italy
Date of production: 
s. xiii

Material information

Material: 
Parchment
Type of fragment: 
Wrapper
Element of folio: 
Lower half of a bifolium, with full width of one folio and part of its conjoint other
Ruling: 
Light in plummet
Decoration: 

Simple two-line filigree initials.

Further information

Notes: 

The dimensions provide the overall height x width of the wrapper. The height of the written space is 80 [text] + 10 + 105 [gloss] + 28mm; each column is 70mm wide with a central reservation of 10mm. The inner gloss margin is 20mm wide and the outer 48mm.

There is some marginalia in two hands both with anglicana features (s. xiii/xiv), demonstrating the manuscript's early presence in England.

Date published: 
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 10:40
Date last updated: 
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 14:51
Oxford ChCh ZP.5.17 front outside
Oxford ChCh ZP.5.17 front inside
Oxford ChCh ZP.5.17 back inside
Oxford ChCh ZP.5.17back outside

Dimensions

Fragment: 

220mm (h) x 345mm (w)

Number of lines: 
16
Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
3mm
Space between lines: 
5mm
Height of written space: 
75mm
Lower margin: 
28mm
Inner margin: 
18mm
Width of text 1: 
20mm
Reservation 1: 
10mm
Width of text 2: 
70mm
Reservation 2: 
10mm
Width of text 3: 
47mm
Outer margin: 
20mm
Number of lines (gloss): 
48
Space between lines (gloss): 
3mm
Height of minims (gloss): 
2mm