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A treatise on legal procedure in Bologna, consisting of civil, canon and criminal law. Divided into 5 thematic parts addressing the types of law and legal proceedings as used in Bologna: the first dealing with approved practices in both civil and ecclesiastical cases of the court; the second dealing with spiritual cases; the third with criminal charges against clergy; the fourth with lawyers and libel; and the fifth with dispensations.
Support: parchment; Extent: 20 leaves : 460 x 285 (360 x 210) mm. bound to 465 x 290 mm; Collation: Parchment, ii + (modern paper) + 20 + ii (modern paper); 1¹² 2⁸; [1-20]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 2 columns of 68 lines; ruled in lead.
Written in two Gothic book hands (f. 1r-12v, f.13r-20r).
Some pointing hands in margins (f. 1v, 17r).
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Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Incipit: In nomine domini nostri Jesu Christi. Ego Egidius de Fosccariis [sic] civis Bononiae doctor decretorum licet indignus ad instantiam quorundam meorum scolarium et ad eruiditionem novorum advocatorum et militantium in jure canonico, qui licet periti in jure existant ignorantes praticam, causas tamen nesciunt ordinare, etiam ad instructionem judicum et notariorum aggredior praesens opus, in quo qualiter causae tam civiles quam spirituales ac etiam criminales secundum ordinem juris et laudabilem consuetudinem civitatis Bononiae tractari debeant... (f. 1r). Explicit: ...laus tibi sit Christe quoniam liber explicit iste. Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domine vivat (f. 20r).
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Italy
Written in Italy, in the first half of the 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Vellum.
Latin
Sold by J. Thiebaud (Paris), 1962.
Italy
Written in Italy, in the first half of the 14th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Latin
Sold by J. Thiebaud
A treatise on legal procedure in Bologna, consisting of civil, canon and criminal law. Divided into 5 thematic parts addressing the types of law and legal proceedings as used in Bologna: the first dealing with approved practices in both civil and ecclesiastical cases of the court; the second dealing with spiritual cases; the third with criminal charges against clergy; the fourth with lawyers and libel; and the fifth with dispensations.
Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Incipit: In nomine domini nostri Jesu Christi. Ego Egidius de Fosccariis [sic] civis Bononiae doctor decretorum licet indignus ad instantiam quorundam meorum scolarium et ad eruiditionem novorum advocatorum et militantium in jure canonico, qui licet periti in jure existant ignorantes praticam, causas tamen nesciunt ordinare, etiam ad instructionem judicum et notariorum aggredior praesens opus, in quo qualiter causae tam civiles quam spirituales ac etiam criminales secundum ordinem juris et laudabilem consuetudinem civitatis Bononiae tractari debeant... (f. 1r). Explicit: ...laus tibi sit Christe quoniam liber explicit iste. Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domine vivat (f. 20r).
Written in two Gothic book hands (f. 1r-12v, f.13r-20r).
Some pointing hands in margins (f. 1v, 17r).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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