Royal MS 11 E III

DIGESTVM VETVS, or libb. i-xxiv of Justinian's Digest. Imperfect, probably by loss of a lea£ Ends 'ac si donatum non', lib. xxiv, tit. i, l. 62. The inscription give the jurists' names only. The constitution '0m. nem' is prefixed and a table of tituli placed at the end. After lib. xi is a colophon (f. 150), 'Explicit textus prime partis ff. veteris'. Marginal apparatus of Accursius, as in 11 D. III, 11 D. VI. Added notes have the siglae 'Ia.', probably Jacobus Balduini, podestà of Genoa 1229 (d. 1235), and 'Bar.', and reference is made to Odofredus (d. 1265).

The fly-leaf (f. 1) is a single page from a late 14th cent. MS. of homilies, probably on the Gospels. It includes the commentary of Bede on the parable of the talents, Luke xix. 12 (Migne, Patr. Lat. xcii. 56.z; cf. also Smaragdus, ib. cii. 540), and the end of a preceding discourse. Vellum; ff. 284. 171/2 in. x 111/4 in. XIV cent. Gatherings of 12 leaves (vi⁴, xv¹⁰, xxi⁸, xxii¹⁰, xxiv¹⁰), with catchwords, Double columns. Sec. fol. 'quos pro dotibus'. One illuminated border initial; others flourished in red and blue. Belonged (f. 2) to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 405; cat. of 1666, f. 9 b; CMA. 8425, 8426, or 8427.