Royal MS 11 C III

DIGESTVM VETVS, or the first part (lib. i-lib. xxiv, tit. iii, 1. i) of Justinian's Digest. Inscriptions are only occasionally given in full. No introductory constitutions. Ends 'sit necessarium'. Pre-Accursian gloss in several strata, including:-(a) Interlinear glosses, sometimes with the prefixed sigla Y. [Irnerius];-(b) Marginal glosses in two or more hands with prefixed siglae, also usually Y. Neither this nor (a) always agrees with the Irnerian glosses as quoted (see Savigny, Gesch. des röm. Rechts, iv, app. ii);-(c) Additions in several hands, with siglae at the end, usually h. [Hugolinusl but sometimes Az. [Azo] &c. The gloss quoted by Savigny (v, app. i) as a specimen of Azo is assigned here to Irnerius (series b). Gloss (a) beg., interlined on iuri, 'huic arti'; interlined on prius, 'quam noscat substantiam iuris'. Gloss (b) beg. 'Cum in iure quedam sunt que omni iuri conueniant'. Gloss (c) beg. 'Domini Iustiniani: Ex hoc potest colligi quod sit nomen (sigla h.) . . . enucleati: Per similitudinem uocat ius enucleatum (sigla Az.)'. Other examples are given in the very inadequate description by Hack, Zeitschr. far gesch. Rechtszvissensch. (Berlin, 1825), v, p. 147.

On the fly-leaves are some law notes (f. 250) and two tables of tituli (ff. 249 b, 250 b). On f. 1 is a pencil-draft of a concord between the executors of 'Roger de Hyda miles' and Richard, Roger's son [13th cent.]. On the end leaves is much scribbling with names, Will. Wynton est bonus homo' (f. 248 b), Wilf. Appulford est bonus pier' (f. 249), and some scribbling in Hebrew; also Engl. verse in pencil in a 14th cent. hand nearly illegible. The last column of eighteen lines beg. 'Hwo is ate kinge bord / and wile anon for a word / ble the kinges mache' (f. 248b). Vellum; ff. 250. 14 in. x glff in. Early XIII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves (xv¹⁰, xxvi⁴ + 4 fly-leaves), numbered at the end. Sec. fol. Iplebis fieret'. Initials in colours, a few marginal grotesques. Belonged (f. 249) to Willeimus atte Newenham; also to Reading Abbey, 'Istum librum Oxonie fecit Ricardus de Redyngia ligari (not the present 18th cent. binding), quem qui alienauerit a monasterio Redyngie fundato in honorem gloriose uirginis Marie et beatorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli, Iohannis atque Iacobi, ucl in eo fraudem fecerit, anathema sit'. Cat. of 1666, f. 9 b; CMA. 8425, 8426, or 8427.