Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Justinian, Codex, cum glossa Accursii (fragment)
Parchment
No pricking visible. Ruled in sharp grey, independently for gloss. Written space, of text, [205] x 118 mm; of gloss, [315], on recto, x 227 mm, with inner column 27 mm wide, outer 60 mm wide. Text in 2 columns of 45 + [2] lines; gloss, on recto, 94 + [3] lines.
Written in textura. Written in northern France. Annotations in an English cursive hand, later 14th century, at the foot of the verso, reporting four opinions, each attributed to “J. de B.”.
Running-titles in red and blue.
Decoration. Initials: one in gloss, 1-line, blue, with red flourishing; to the inscription prefacing each constitution, 1-line, red; to each constitution, 3-line or larger, entirely outside the written space, blue, with red flourishing.
Written in northern France, early 13th century.
Former pastedowns, with stains of turn-ins of brown covering Shelfmark of source: SB+ 0125 - Cicero, Rhetorica Marci Tullij Ciceronis cum commento, (Lyons: [Joannes Crepin], 1531), repaired in 1926, with impressions on the binding of a roll 4 and an ornament 18 used on Oxford bindings in the mid-sixteenth century, see Ker, Pastedowns, no. 183a. Portfolio I/23 (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
III, xxvii,1 - xxviii,24.
Ker, N.R., Fragments of medieval manuscripts used as pastedowns in Oxford bindings: with a survey of Oxford binding c. 1515-1620 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2004)