Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Infortiatum

Authors

• Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565 (http://viaf.org/viaf/88881722)
• Accursius, glossator, approximately 1182-approximately 1260 (http://viaf.org/viaf/102317020)

Other related names

• Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/61624943)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 244
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1613170

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Bologna, Italy

Summary

This large manuscript contains the Infortiatum of Justinian's Digest of Roman Law, along with the thirteenth-century jurist Accursius's commentary. Accursius died in 1263, so this Bolognese manuscript of circa 1270-1280 is an early example of his work. Both the primary text and the commentary are extensively glossed, in near-contemporary and later medieval hands. The parchment evinces historic damage and repairs, as well as the enlargement of pages with parchment strips and the addition of an extra, small leaf to accommodate additional commentary. A series of small miniatures illustrating various litigation processes begin each chapter, and the text is dotted with initials inhabited by monks, lawyers, and animal figures. Five ink drawings–of wrestlers (fol. 9v), a crowned head (fol. 149r), a man pouring wine (fol. 153r), an animal hybrid (fol. 159r), and a man fighting a dragon-like creature (fol. 288v)–populate the margins. A number of fifteenth-century inscriptions on fols. 288r-v indicate this manuscript's continued history of use–on one occasion as surety for a loan.

Notes

• Some rubbing throughout has faded the script in places
   
• Spine partly detached
   
• Extensive marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands throughout
   
• Additional, smaller page of commentary added bound in as fol. 6
   
• Evidence of historic damage and repairs
   
• Manicules throughout
   

Extent

Ii+288+ii; 415 x 243 mm bound to 434 x 272 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto and lower left recto

Collation

1 (12, +1 +6), 2-10 (10), 11 (8), 12 (12), 13-28 (10), 29 (4), 30 (2)

Signatures

Two sets of modern quite signatures: the earlier in ink, lower right versos; the later in pencil, lower left rectos

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular catchwords in lower right versos

Binding

Modern blind-stamped pigskin by Franz Hollsteiner of Vienna (his stamp on flyleaf 1v); stamped in gold on spine: "CORPUS JURIS JUSTINIANI 1350-1400. PARIS DIGESTUM"; remains of clasps; modern green slipcase stamped on spine: "JUSTINIAN DIGESTUM INFORTIATUM XIVth CENTURY"

Layout

Primary text: two columns of up to forty-six lines; commentary: two columns of up to ninety-seven lines; ruling in ink and lead point; written area: 390 x 234 mm

Decoration

Fifteen small miniatures at chapter beginnings, fifteen inhabited initials, numerous decorated and colored initials throughout; three marginal drawings; occasional ink line-fillers

Script

Littera bononiensis

Provenance

• Hans Peter Kraus, Catalogue 117, no. 7, his name on back flyleaf; Free Library of Philadelphia
   

Related resources

• Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, "Signs of Use" in Reactions: Medieval/Modern exhibition pages, 2016 [online] (http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/reactionsexhibit/sec5.html)

Keywords

• 13th century
• Italian
• Annotated
• Drawing
• Gloss
• Illustration
• Inhabited initial
• Manicules
• Legal
• Italy

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Index; incipit: Soluto matrimonio queadmodum dos petatur [fol. 1v]; explicit: Ad senatus consultum tertullianum [fol. 1v]
• fol. 2r — Infortiatum; incipit: Dotis causa semper et ubique praecipua... [fol. 2r]; explicit: ...potastate erat postliminio non sit reuersus. Laus deo amen [fol. 287r]
• fol. 287r — Liber XXXIX of the Justinian Digest [imperfect]; incipit: Hoc edicto promittur ut siue iure siue injuria opus fieret ... [fol. 287r]; explicit: ...molliatur aut si quid contra leges... [fol. 288v]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in pencil
• fol. 1r — Multiple early notations in ink
• fol. 2r — Small miniature, petitioners before a seated judge
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 2r — Partial foliate border
• fol. 9v — Marginal drawing, wrestlers
• fol. 10r — Small miniature, petitioners before a seated judge
• fol. 10r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 10r — Partial foliate/ zoomorphic border
• fol. 11r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 15r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 16r — Small miniature, petitioners with a child before a seated judge
• fol. 16r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 16r — Partial foliate border
• fol. 17v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 19v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 20r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 21v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 32r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 33r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 33v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 35r — Small miniature, petitioners before a seated lawyer
• fol. 35r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 41r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 42r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 44r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 45r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 45v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 46r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 47v — Inhabited initial U, lawyer
• fol. 49v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 50v — Small miniature, a lawyer's deathbed
• fol. 50v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 50v — Partial foliate border
• fol. 52v — Inhabited initial U, monk
• fol. 55v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 58r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 59r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 73r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 75v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 76r — Small miniature, petitioners before a seated judge and a scribe
• fol. 76r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 76r — Partial foliate border
• fol. 88r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 88v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 91v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 95v — Inhabited initial U, head
• fol. 95v — Inhabited initial U, animal hybrid
• fol. 99r — Small miniature, lawyer before a seated judge
• fol. 99r — Inhabited initial P, lawyer
• fol. 99r — Partial foliate border with monkey
• fol. 115r — Small miniature, lawyer and petitioners before a seated judge
• fol. 115r — Zoomorphic initial I
• fol. 115r — Partial foliate border
• fol. 127r — Small miniature, lawyer before judge with building
• fol. 127r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 127r — Partial foliate border
• fol. 142v — Small miniature, lawyers and petitioners with a tree
• fol. 142v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 142v — Partial foliate border
• fol. 146r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 149r — Marginal drawing, crowned head
• fol. 149v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 151v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 152v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 153r — Marginal drawing, Man pouring wine
• fol. 159r — Marginal drawing, animal hybrid
• fol. 164r — Small miniature, woman and child presented before a judge
• fol. 164r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 164r — Partial foliate border
• fol. 168r — Inhabited initial P, monk
• fol. 180r — Inhabited initial P, lawyer
• fol. 186r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 186r — Inhabited initial C, lawyer
• fol. 186v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 189v — Small miniature, lawyers
• fol. 189v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 189v — Partial foliate border
• fol. 201r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 211r — Small miniature, lawyers and petitioners
• fol. 211r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 211r — Partial foliate border
• fol. 215r — Small miniature, lawyers
• fol. 215r — Decorted initial U
• fol. 215r — Partial foliate border
• fol. 234v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 234v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 238r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 240r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 242v — Small miniature, petitioners before a judge
• fol. 242v — Inhabited initial U, animal hybrid
• fol. 242v — Partial foliate border
• fol. 243v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 243v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 247r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 249v — Inhabited initial U, animal hybrid
• fol. 252v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 254r — Inhabited initial U, head
• fol. 255r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 257v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 259v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 259v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 260r — Inhabited initial U, head
• fol. 261v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 262r — Small miniature, lawyers and peasants
• fol. 262r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 272v — Inhabited initial U, lawyer
• fol. 276r — Anthropomorphic initial I
• fol. 277r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 277v — Decorated initial G
• fol. 282v — Inhabited initial U, lawyer
• fol. 282v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 282v — Inhabited initial U, head
• fol. 282v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 282v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 288r — Multiple early notations in ink
• fol. 288v — Multiple early notations in ink
• fol. 288v — Marginal drawing, man fighting dragon(?)
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in pencil