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Arundel MS 439
- Record Id:
- 040-002039722
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x00027f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174687553.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 439
- Title:
- Justinian, Digestum novum, with the gloss by Accursius and the additiones of Guido of Suzzara
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript contains:
ff. 1r-2v: table of contents written by a later medieval hand.
ff. 3r-275r: Justinian's Digestum novum, accompanied by the gloss of Accursius and the additiones of Guido of Suzzara.
f. 275v: notes and inscriptions.
Decoration:
11 miniatures, mostly accompanied by large initials, some including human heads or figures, in colours and gold (ff. 3r, 5r, 40r, 65r, 84v [unfinished: underdrawing and gold], 85r, 116v, 149r, 192r, 222r, 253v).
Large foliate initials, in colours and gold, in the text.
Large blue initials with red pen-flourishing, in the text.
Small blue initials with red pen-flourishing, in the glosses.
Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, in the text and in the glosses.
Paraph marks in plain red or blue.
3 line-fillers in red or brown (ff. 132r, 143r, 225r).
Marginal sketches of human heads (ff. 48r, 249r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039722 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 439 : Justinian, Digestum novum, with the gloss by Accursius and the additiones of Guido of Suzzara - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0440]/040-002039722
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100174687553.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1324
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 410 x 260 mm (text space 230/375 x 180/240 mm).
Foliation: ff. 275. Four blank, unfoliated, modern paper endleaves at the beginning and four at the end.
Note: the manuscript was digitised prior to rebinding. The images show the old modern paper endleaves (one at the beginning and two at the end).
Collation: i2 (ff. 1-2), ii-iv12 (ff. 3-38), v10 (ff. 39-48), vi-xiii12 (ff. 49-144), xiv4 (ff. 145-148), xv-xxiv12 (ff. 149-268), xxv8-1 (ff. 269-275; 8th leaf after f. 275 excised, probably blank).
Script: Gothic (Textura semi-quadrata).
Binding: British Library in-house. Re-bound 2014.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (?Bologna).
Provenance:
Taken to Padua in 1449: inscribed '1449 die 19 Novembris Dominus Johannes de Alemania conduxit Padue hunc librum' (f. 2v). (See Arundel MS 453, and also Arundel MS 433, Arundel MS 449, and Arundel MS 484). On the meaning of such inscriptions, see Gargan, 'L'enigmatico 'conduxit'', Quaderni per la storia dell'università di Padova, 16 (1983), 1-41, and Gargan, 'Nuovi codici 'condotti' a Padova', Quaderni per la storia dell'università di Padova, 22-23 (1989-90), 1-57.
Inscription, 1425: 'Mocccc xxv … ego Iohannes de Sabia recessi(?) nicosia et fui venetiis … domino Rafaele… (f. 275v).
Unidentified owners, 15th century (several dates, e.g. 1461, etc.): inscriptions (ff. 2, 2v, 275v), e.g. 'Digestum vetus mei Eustachij emptum a fratrum…' (f. 275v), and annotations throughout, including some in Hebrew(?) (f. 275v).
?Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.') (f. 3).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 123.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 10.
Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), p. 17 no. 255.
Gero Dolezalek, Verzeichnis der Handschriften zum römischen Recht bis 1600: Materialsammlung, System und Programm für elektronische Datenverarbeitung, 4 vols (Frankfurt am Main: [n. pub.], 1972), I, London, BM, Arundel 439.
Luciano Gargan, 'L'enigmatico 'conduxit': libri e dogana a Padova fra Tre e Quattrocento', Quaderni per la storia dell'università di Padova, 16 (1983), 1-41.
Luciano Gargan, 'Nuovi codici 'condotti' a Padova nel Tre e Quattrocento', Quaderni per la storia dell'università di Padova, 22-23 (1989-90), 1-57.
Anthony Mussen, 'Images of Marriage: A Comparison of Law, Custom and Practice in Medieval Europe', in Regional Variations in Matrimonial Law and Custom in Europe, 1150-1600, ed. by Mia Korpiola (Leiden: Brill, 2011), 117-46 (p. 119n).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)