Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.h.14 i

Lost manuscript: 
Babel MS 29
Host volume: 
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.h.14

Textual information

Subject: 
Canon Law, Law
Author of work: 
Gratian
Title of work: 
Decretum
Section: 
Pars Secunda (parts of causae xii, xiv and xv), with gloss
Orientation: 
foot to gutter
Transcription: 

Text only, arranged in sequence:
(verso, right-hand page, col. a [causa xii, quaestio 2, c. lviii) ¦¦causa quasi inofficiosus castigatur … Qui manumittitur (sic) a cor¦¦
(verso, right-hand page, col. b [causa xii, quaestio 2, c. lxii) ¦¦ actio canonum ac legum auctoritate iu¦¦ Scilicet … episcopum suum uel patronam¦¦
(recto, left-hand page, col. a [causa xii, quaestio 2, c. lxvi]) ¦¦tionem eos absoluere oportebit¦¦ vero conprouinciale deferatur¦¦ … [title to c. lxvii:] … ecclesiasticis  utilitatibus deseruiunt
(recto, left-hand page, col. b [causa xii, quaestio 2, c. lxx]) ¦¦ramus, quantum auri atque argenti … inopes fame
(recto, right-hand page, col. a [causa xiv, quaestio 6, c. i]) ¦¦uinum comminantes iudicium … accipere medicinam. Si vero rem
(recto, right-hand page, col. b [causa xv, intro]) ¦¦confessio cruciatibus sit extorquenda. Septimo¦¦ … officium sibi exequi liceat. Qv¦¦
(verso, left-hand page, col. a [causa xv, quaestio 1, c. i) ¦¦rito queritur que … cum uult uiuere si¦¦
(verso, left-hand page,  col. b [causa xv, quaestio 1, c. ii) ¦¦uel exercitatione uirium … facultatem deliberandi¦¦

Palaeography

Type of script: 
Gothic
Place of production: 
England
Date of production: 
s. xiii
s. xiii 1

Material information

Material: 
Parchment
Type of fragment: 
Binding strip
Fragment type detail: 
follows the final original flyleaf
Element of folio: 
strip cut across the bottom of a bifolium
Ruling: 
lightly in plummet, lines crossing the central reservation
Decoration: 

In text, initials in red or blue with blue paraph marks and some red pen-flourishing. No colour used in gloss.

Further information

Notes: 

Layout of added text shows that the interlinear notes were added before the marginal gloss.
Image is of the verso.

Colchester Harsnett H.h.14 i verso

Dimensions

Fragment: 

344mm (h) x 45mm (w)

Number of lines: 
5
Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
2mm
Space between lines: 
4mm
Height of written space: 
20mm
Lower margin: 
25mm
Width of text 1: 
58mm
Reservation 1: 
14mm
Width of text 2: 
57mm
Number of lines (gloss): 
8mm
Space between lines (gloss): 
4mm
Height of minims (gloss): 
2mm