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Harley MS 5117

Record Id:

040-002050961

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050961

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x00027c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5117

Title:

Justinian, Codex and Tres libri

Scope & Content:

This manuscript is composed of two parts:

a copy of Justinian's Codex (ff. 3r-199v) datable to the 1st half of the 12th century;

Justinian's Tres libri Codicis (ff. 200r-239r) copied in the last quarter of the 12th century.

It also includes three additions of the early 13th century:

a table of contents (a list of books and titles) to the Codex and the Tres libri (ff. 1r-2v);

a fragment of the Libri feudorum (LF.2.53 and LF.2.55) (f. 239v);

a commentary on Justinian’s Codex (C.2.19.1 - C.2.41.5) attributed to the school of Johannes Bassianus (ff. 240r-241v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050961

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5117 : Justinian, Codex and Tres libri

Contains:

Harley MS 5117, ff 3r-199v : Justinian, Codex
Harley MS 5117, ff 200r-239r : Justinian, Tres libri Codicis
Harley MS 5117, f 139v : Libri feudorum, fragment

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5117]/040-002050961

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1125

End Date:

1240

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 12th century-Early 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 340 x 210 (text space: ff. 3r-199v: 230 x 105 mm; ff. 200r-239v: 250 x 125 mm).

Foliation: ff. 241 (+ 8 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 4 at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation: i^4-2 (ff. 1-2; 2 leaves cancelled); ii-vii⁸ (ff. 3-50); viii^10-2(ff. 51-58; two leaves cancelled); ix-xxv⁸(ff. 59-195); xxvi⁴ (ff. 196-199); xxvii-xxix⁸(ff. 200-223); xxx⁶(ff. 224-229); xxx¹⁰ (ff. 230-239); xxxii² (ff. 240-241). Catchwords, quires numbers and signatures (letters of the alphabet).

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: British Museum in-house binding; rebound in 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Italy (Bologna?).

Provenance:

Added two notarial records of 1233 signed in Radicofani (province of Siena, Italy), the first in the house of Arnold Guerardi, incipit: 'In nomine domini domini anno domini millesimo cc xxx iii indic. vi tercio nonas Genuaryj que in presentia et testimonium Graccij Arnoldi... actum Radicofane in Burgo Maiori domini domum Arnoldi Guerardi' (f. 240r), and the second in the house of Alexander Albonerti (?) and relating to a sale, incipit: 'Actum in Borgo Maiori Radicofani in domo Alexandrii Albonerti anno domini m. cc iii indict. v per die nonas Genuarii' (f. 240v).

John Gibson (fl. 1720-1726), dealer; sold to Edward Harley on 22 June 1726 (see Wright 1972); included in Humfrey Wanley's list of 53 manuscripts sent to Edward Harley on 22 February 1724 as 'Xodex Justineaneus, cum glossis quibusdam. manu Ital. vet. - Constitutio F(rederici) Imperatoris. fol. membr. [£10. 0s. 0d]' (see Diary 1966).

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, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘22 die mensis Junii, A.D. 1726’ (f. 1r).

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.

Administrative Context:

Italy (Bologna?).

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-1812), III, no 5117.

Justinianus I imperator, Codex, ed. by Paul Krüger (Berlin 1877), Appendix, pp. 59-61.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), II: 1723-1726, p. 337, n. 4.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), p. 162.

E. M. Meijers, Études d'histoire du droit international privé, 4 vols (Leiden: Universitaire Pers, 1956-1966), III (1959): Le droit romain au Moyen-Age, pp. 239 n.102, 241, 263.

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: referenced by manuscript number).

Gero Dolezalek, Repertorium manuscriptorum veterum Codicis Iustiniani, 2 vols (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1985), I, pp. 251-62.

Emanuele Conte, Tres Libri Codicis: La Ricomparsa del Testo e L'Esegesi Scolastica Prima di Accursio (Frankfurt am Mein: Vittorio Klostermann, 1990), pp. 28, 33, 48, 127, 140-41, 154.

'Manuscripta iuridica' [Principal investigator: G. R. Dolezalek] (Max Plank Institute für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 2012), http://manuscripts.rg.mpg.de/jhs/de/manuscript/details/2615 [accessed on 23 January 2013].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gibson, John, book-dealer, fl 1720-1726
Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, 2 Jun 1689-16 Jun 1741,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108078249,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/160524259
Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, Countess of Oxford and Mortimer, née Holles, patron of architecture, 4 Feb 1694-9 Dec 1755,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000030125833,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/6045563
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor, c 482-565,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120965924,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/88881722