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Harley MS 3441
- Record Id:
- 040-002049272
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049272
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003a5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059462600.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3441
- Title:
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Justinian, Codex
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains fragments of the Codex Justiniani (Emperor Justinian’s Code) which, together with Digesta (The Digest), Institutiones (Institutes of Justinian) and Novellae (The New Laws), makes up the Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian’s Body of Civil Law). This was one of the most important collections of Roman law, compiled at the order of Emperor Justinian I (b. c. 482, d. 565).
Contents:
ff. 1r-1v: Justinian, Codex (sections C.1.5.6 - C.1.5.6.1), beginning: ‘[d]ecuriones ac magistratum vel ex actionem’.
ff. 2r-2v: Justinian, Codex (the law Haec quae necessario Constitutio), beginning: ‘Hec que necessario corrigenda esse’, preceded by a rubric ‘In nomine domini nostri Ihesu Christi’.
f. 2v: Justinian, Codex (the law Summa Rei Publicae Constitutio), beginning: ‘Imperator Iustinianus augustus pius felix inclitus victor ac triumfator’.
ff. 3r-3v: Justinian, Codex (sections C. 1.2.16-23), beginning: ‘idem aa sebastiano papa decernimus, ut antiquatis ac infirmitatis’.
ff. 4v-64v: Justinian, Codex (sections C. 7.4.14.1-C.9.16.5), beginning: 'veniant cunabulis cum in ambiguis sensibus'.
Decoration:
Small initials in red. Rubrics in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- England and France 700-1200 Project
Harley Collection - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049272", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3441: Justinian, Codex" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049272 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3441 : Justinian, Codex - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3442]/040-002049272
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100059462600.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 160 mm (text space: 190 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. 64 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning +1 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: Post-1600. Blind-tooled brown leather, the spine inscribed in gold at the British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: ? France.
Provenance:
Several unknown owners: their marginal annotations in scripts ranging from the 11th to the 16th centuries.
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), Duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III, p. 26 (no. 3441).
Gero Dolezalek, Verzeichnis der Handschriften zum römischen Recht bis 1600: Materialsammlung, System und Programm für elektronische Datenverarbeitung, 4 vols (Frankfurt: Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 1972), I (unpaginated: London BM, Harley 3441).
Gero Dolezalek, Repertorium manuscriptorum veterum Codicis Iustiniani, 2 vols, Ius commune: Sonderhefte, Texte und Monographien, 23 (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1985), I, pp. 248-49.
Gero Dolezalek (and others), 'Manuscripta iuridica', Max Plank-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (2012), «http://manuscripts.rg.mpg.de/manuscript/4542» [accessed 19 February 2018].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.