Royal MS 11 B XV

INSTITUTES of Justinian, with other parts of the civil and canon law, in Latin. The MS. (so far as concerns artt. 1-3) was described by Hack in Zeitschr. far geschichtl. Rechtswissenschaft, v (1825), p. 141, and the gloss of art. 2 identified by Savigny (ib. and in his Gesch. des röm. Rechts, 1850, iv, p. 103). Contents.:-

1. 'Liber institutionum': the Institutes, without gloss. A very few notes are written in the broad margins. Only the first initial (in red and blue) inserted. f. 1.

2. Titulus De regulis iuris (lib. 1, tit. xvii) of the Digest, with commentary [by Bulgarus, the Bologna jurist known as 'Os Aureum', d. 1166] written in smaller letters. The text, which omits all the inscriptions, beg. 'Regula est que quod est breuiter enarrat'; gloss, 'Regula est breuis rerum narracio'. Often printed, see Savigny, Geschichle, l. c., and edition by F. W. C. Beck. haus (Bonn, 1856), who collated this MS. Two opinions of Vacarius are quoted under regg. lx, lxiii (f. 89 b). f. 85.

3. Titulus De verborum significatione (lib. 1, tit. xvi) of the Digest, without commentary. Also wants the inscriptiones. Beg. 'Verbum hoc, si quis, tam masculos'. f. 99 b.

4. 'De verborum significacionibus' : the tituli De verb. significatione and De regulis iuris of the Decretals of Gregory IX (lib. v, titt. xl, xli). The inscriptions are brief and corrupt. Beg. 'Innouate nouale'. f. 108.

5. Fragment of a decretal ('Romanus pontifex qui iura tuetur') concerning the clause 'Quidam alii' in rescripts. f. 109 (misplaced, should be iii). After this a leaf seems to be lost.

6. 'De legibus et constitucionibus': the tit. De con. stitutionibus of the Decretals of Gregory IX (lib. i, tit. ii). f. 112.

7. 'De rescriptis': tit. iii of the same book. Incomplete, breaking off at the foot of f. 115 (recto) 'per litteras aduer . . .', cap. 21. f. 113. Some marginal commonplaces include verses (six lines) on the parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard, beg. 'Vinca culta fuit (cf. 7 D. I, f. 42, 8 F. I, f. 2), f. 1b, and on [Romano-Gallic] measures of length, beg. 'Quinque pedes passum' (cf. 8 A. VI, f. 24 b), f. 14 b. Vellum; ff. 115. 111/4 in. x 8 in. XIII cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (viii¹⁰, x⁹), with catchwords. Double columns. Sec. fol. 'nam ius'. Initials flourished in red, blue, and green. Pencil-note (f. 115 b) Id. I. Rouchestre, precii vi.s.', and ownership note of Rochester Priory (f. 1), 'De claustro Rofrensi per Reynierum monachum'. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 399' (Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 12); cat. of 1666, f. 10; CMA. 8410.