Azo of Bologna’s Summa Codices, Fragment

Type: Fragment

Date: 13th century

Setting: University

Produced By/For: [unknown] France

Contents: Azo of Bologna’s Summa Codices

Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.3

Location: Shelf 02/B/20 (Acc. 2006-023)

Identification, Description and Transcription by Angela Kaneen, December 2018

Identification, description, transcription of fol. 1va83-1vb83, textual notes for fol. 1va83-1vb83, and bibliography by Angela Kaneen, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), December 2018, is available here.

* Transcription conventions follow those set out by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham in Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca, 2007), pp. 75-78. Textual notes on manuscript features, scribal hands, and corrections follow the transcription. The work has been checked and lightly edited by Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin.

Description by Erik Kwakkel, July 2006

Codicology

Parchment sheet (half a bifolium), trimmed severely on all sides, which was used as a pastedown in a bookbinding (visible are some traces of glue on recto, green offset marks from the brass fittings for the clamps of the bookbinding, as well as significant damage to the surface on recto from removing the fragment)

• dimensions: 300x190 (265x163) mm
• 2 columns, 83 lines
• traces of ruling (plummet); no pricking visible
• hair implant visible on verso.

Paleography

Main text and rubrics by one scribe in a very small bookhand (littera textualis, 1200-50)

• high amount of abbreviations
• the rubric 'De privatis carceribus inhibendis', on verso, is written on erasure by a fifteenth-century hand ('De' still in hand of main text)
• paragraphs in red and blue (alternating)
• writing above topline.

Decoration

Initials in red and blue (alternating), placed outside textblock.

Textual Remarks

The fragment follows the division found in the Codex of Justinian in the Corpus Iuris Civilis, and it contains the same headings: the first visible rubric reads 'De accusationibus et inscriptionibus' (CJ.9.2.0), the last 'Ad legem iuliam maiestatis' (CJ.9.8.0). However, the (Roman) law text in the fragment is not part of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. [Identification updated December 2018: the text is from Azo of Bologna’s Summa Codices.]

Provenance

Purchased through Erik Kwakkel in July 2006 from the collection of Herman Mulder (Hombeek, Belgium), who bought it from Antiquariaat Hermione, Maastricht, the Netherlands, on May 31, 1994. It may previously have belonged to a batch of fragments from the collection of J.J. Timmers, which was sold by Hermione in the early 1990s (see P.F.J. Obbema, 'A fifteenth-century calendar as a folding sheet', in Quaerendo 24 (1994), p.297).

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Recto

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