Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.57 i

Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.57
Textual Information
Subject
Law
Civil Law
Title of work

Digest

Section

XXXI.xxxi.41 and XXXI.xxxiv.7

Orientation
upright
Transcription

[recto:] ¦¦ione leg¦¦ ... [qui]bus fund[um] ... ¦¦ accre[scat] ... ¦¦an de[ductiones impensarum] fieri possint ... [no complete words in gloss]

[verso:] [ac]cepit ... proponantur ... [te]statricis ...

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura Rotunda
Place of production
N. Italy
Date of production
s. xiii
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Binding strip
Fragment type detail

lifted, front

Element of folio

strip cut down the page

Ruling

simple ruling for frame in plummet

Decoration

Paraphs in red and blue on verso.

Further information
Notes

It is impossible to extrapolate from this one fragment the size of the folio, but it appears from the missing text that the layout involved narrow columns, perhaps with gloss between and certainly with gloss - provided by the scribe - in the lower margin.

Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.a.57 i
Dimensions
Fragment

196mm (h) x 15mm (w)

Number of lines
18
Number of columns
1 visible
Height of minims
4mm
Space between lines
7mm
Height of written space
154mm
Width of written space
15mm
Lower margin
25mm
Width of text 1
15mm
Number of lines (gloss)
11
Space between lines (gloss)
5mm
Height of minims (gloss)
3mm