Identifier:

1/XI/ITA/15.

Scope and content:

r-v: //multiplica, ydolorum cultum insequens fanorum edificia everte . . . de vestris citius finibus amputatis. Data die// [Burchard, Decretum, book 15 De laicis, chaps. 16-19: PL vol.140, columns 898A-900A).

Acquisition information:

Written in Italy, possibly in the north. Early Italian example of this text.

Physical description:

Parchment, 1 leaf; 400 × 280 (284 × 180) mm. 2 columns of 40 lines; double bounding lines, triple between the columns; drypoint ruling. Developed rounded Caroline minuscule script of high standards: ascenders are often wedge-shaped; abbreviation marks for and appear as a stroke crossing the horizontal elongated tail of the letter; brown ink. 2-line initials in red rustic capitals, slashed with yellow or yellow and green; initials in the text slashed with yellow; rubries in smaller minuscule, in red; running title on the verso, “Lib.” in red rustic capitals, on the recto, “XV. De imperatoribus et principibus” in red minuscule. In the margins a nota-monogram by the copyist and other almost contemporary nota marks in the shape of a deformed ; corrections of the text by an Italian cursive hand, s. XIV-XV. Lower portion torn, and recto so faded and stained as to be hardly readable. Used for binding a “Formolario”: title on the recto, by an Italian hand, s. XVII. Scribbles by an Italian hand on the recto top s. XVI.

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