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Unidentified civil law, probably from JUSTINIAN, Digesta(binding fragment)

St John's College MS 235 (fragment 66)

St John's College, University of Oxford

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Title

Unidentified civil law, probably from JUSTINIAN, Digesta(binding fragment)

Shelfmark

St John's College MS 235 (fragment 66)

Date

s. xiv in.

Language

Latin

Contents

Unidentified civil law

Form

codex

Support

Vellum.

Physical extent

Fol. 1, the lower portion of a leaf.

Hands

Written in gothic textura quadrata, s. xiii ex., with numerous anglicana glosses, s. xiv in.

Decoration

Unfinished: blanks for staggered rubrics, guide letters for unfilled capitals; the authorities indicated in the text ink.

Provenance

A note ‘de abolitione’; a versus, ‘Lex non iuberet nisi esset voluntas | gratia non iuvaret si sat esset voluntas’ (upside down, s. xvi).

MS 235 is a collection of binding fragments removed from College books (medieval portions only). This entry is for fragment 66 only.

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  • Justinian, I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565

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