Type

Fragment

Oxford: Christ Church, ZP.5.17 i

Lost manuscript
Textual Information
Subject
Law
Canon Law
Title of work

Decretals (with commentary)

Section

lib. IV, tit. iii, xvii-xviii

Orientation
upright, reversed
Transcription

Text only:

[back, inside, col. b: tit. ii, cc. x-xi] ||. . .debes . . .|| ||dare . . . dictus puer||

[back, outside, col. a: tit. iii, c. iii] ||. . .tur expresse|| ||t super hoc . . . modo proles||

[back, outside, col. b: tit. xvii, c. xiii] ||quod non solum in ecclesia . . . sequerisque eorum sin||

[front, outside: tit. xvii, c. xiii] ||parari. Paulus etiam ut plenitudinem potestatis . . . alimenta petitioni tue non duximus||

[front, inside: tit. xviii, cc. i-iii] ||iri, licet quinquennium sit . . . [c. 2 omitted] . . . suam genealogiam||

[back, inside, col. a: tit. xviii, cc. iv-v] || legitimo tempore acced|| ||et copule . . . repellentes|| ||tium imponatis||

 

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
textura rotunda
Place of production
Italy
Date of production
s. xiii
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Wrapper
Element of folio

Lower half of a bifolium, with full width of one folio and part of its conjoint other

Ruling

Light in plummet

Decoration

Simple two-line filigree initials.

Further information
Notes

The dimensions provide the overall height x width of the wrapper. The height of the written space is 80 [text] + 10 + 105 [gloss] + 28mm; each column is 70mm wide with a central reservation of 10mm. The inner gloss margin is 20mm wide and the outer 48mm.

There is some marginalia in two hands both with anglicana features (s. xiii/xiv), demonstrating the manuscript's early presence in England.

Author: David Rundle_
Dimensions
Fragment

220mm (h) x 345mm (w)

Number of lines
16
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
5mm
Height of written space
75mm
Lower margin
28mm
Inner margin
18mm
Width of text 1
20mm
Reservation 1
10mm
Width of text 2
70mm
Reservation 2
10mm
Width of text 3
47mm
Outer margin
20mm
Number of lines (gloss)
48
Space between lines (gloss)
3mm
Height of minims (gloss)
2mm