Details

Standardized Title:

Corpus juris civilis.

Subjects:

Roman law -- Early works to 1800.
Roman law.
Inheritance and succession (Roman law).
Marriage (Roman law).
Property (Roman law).

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Laws (documents)
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Bifolium with fragments from Book 37 of the Digests of Justinian I (Byzantine emperor, 527-565), containing (in order) sections of Title 7 on dowries, Title 9 on inheritance, and Title 8 on the children of marriages in which one partner is an emancipated slave. The text is surrounded by 15th-century commentary on the laws.

Contents:

1. f.1r-1v: De dotis collatione (37.7.1.4).
2. f.1v: De ventre in possessionem mittendo et curatore eius (37.9.1).
3. f.2r-2v: De coniungendis cum emancipato liberis eius (37.8.1.10).

Notes:

Ms. leaves.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Layout: Main text written in 2 columns of 50-52 lines; commentary text written in 2 columns of 90-109 lines; horizontal and vertical bounding lines ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Decoration: Initials (1-line to 3-line) alternating in red and blue ink, paragraph marks in red and blue ink, six-line Title 8 initial in red and blue ink.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Probably written in France in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 222).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1223

Contributor:

Justinian I, Emperor of the East, 483?-565.
Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

OCLC:

233986140