Royal MS 11 D III

DIGESTVM VETVS, or first part (cf. 11 C. III) of Justinian's Digest, with inscriptiones giving the jurist's name only. Preceded by a table of tituli and the constitution 'Omnem'. Ends'sitnecessarium'. Marginalgloss,the apparatus of Accursius, beg. 'Imperator quia imperat subiectis. Often printed (Hain, Rep. 9544-9559, &c.). At the end (f. 243) are thirteen mnemonic verses in the hand of the rubricator, beg. 'Com[m]oda qui sentis iungashonus emonumentis' (sic); the last six go together and begin IAnnua si debes, tunc decipies caput annl'. All the verses are printed in the somewhat inaccurate account of the MS. given by Hack, Zeitschr. fur gesch. Rechtswissenschaft (Berlin, 1825), v, p. 149.

The fly-leaves comprise duplicates of ft. 70, 71 in the same hand (ff. 245, 246) and two fragments of ecclesiastical instruments, viz.:-(a) Notarial document, 31 May, 1335, relating to a disputed clection of an abbess of Altinensis ecciesia [Elterenberg or Elden], dioc. Utrecht. f. 1;-(b) Letters executory of a papal provision [at the instance of Roger Mortimer, Baron Mortimer, see Bliss, Cal. of Papal Petitions, i, p. 229] of John de Bisshopeston to such right to the treasurership of Chichester as Walter Gest died possessed of (the office was claimed also by Stephen de Kettleburgh), dat. 23 June, 1351. f. 248. In the margins and fly-leaves are also added many notes and quaestiones including (f. 247b) a lecture (?) beg 'In nomine, &c. Lex domini immaculata, &c. [Ps. xviii. 8]: Scriptum est quod competenter', at the end of which is the name 'Ioh. de Wottone extraordinarius' (cf. also f. 2). Vellum; ff. 248. 17 in. x 103/4 in. Late XIII cent. Gatherings (excl. fly-leaves) of 10 leaves (i², xxiv⁸). Double columns. See, fol. 'sunt in libris'. Initials flourished in red and blue. Owners' names are 'Walterus de Beggeworth', with a [notarial ?] sign (f. 246 b, cf. f. 2), 'Digestum vetus traditum per Thomam de Enham pret. decem flor.','Reginaldus de Bugwell Anglicus', and 'Liber Willelmi de Rediswelle' (all on f. 2). On. f. 247 is a 'caucio Thome de Mandevile pro paruo volumine et pro digesto nouo aule Michaelis' [at Oxford-?]. -on f. 1 is the note 'prec. xii. fl.' Old Royal pressmark 'no. 280' (should be 250 ?, Westm. invent. of 1542, Add. MS. 25469, f. 9); cat. of 1666, f. 9b ; CMA. 8425, 8426, or 8427.