Speculum iudiciale (DS9943) (Q43833)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621752, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862175, mssHM 19916)
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Speculum iudiciale (DS9943)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18621752, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862175, mssHM 19916)

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    Speculum iudiciale
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    Historiated initials--England--14th century
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    Marginalia (annotations)--14th century
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    Genealogical tables--England--14th century
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    Roman law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800
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    Canon law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800
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    between 1300 and 1325
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    Extent: ff. 295 : parchment ; 270 x 405 mm
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    Guillelmus Durantis' Speculum iudiciale written in England in the first quarter of the fourteenth century. It appears similar in style of production, script and decoration to portions of a copy of the Apparatus on the Sext (Oxford, Bod. Lib., Lat. misc. b.16, ff. 1-72v, 151-276).
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    Span folios: ff. 1-295v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-2412 2510(-8, 9, 10, excised). Quires signed in modern form arabic numerals on the first leaf recto; contemporary quire and leaf signatures: a-z, the tironian 7 and the "cum" abbreviation indicating the quire, and i-vii indicating the leaf. Catchwords in the inner corner, enclosed in a small ink frame. 2 columns of 75 lines, ruled in brown...
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    Decoration: Opening historiated initial, 50 x 58 mm., depicting a doctor with an open book on his lectern, teaching 2 students, against a burnished gold background, from which grows a C-shaped frame of pink and blue segments, cusped corners, a grotesque, daisy buds, and occasional gold motifs. Major initials for the book divisions on ff. 2, 78v, 192v, 204, 9- to 5-line, in parted red and blue...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012.
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    Erased inscriptions on f. 295: "Liber magistri Richardi Langton Rectoris de Lythe," and, in a second hand, "[...?] mense [...?] xvi"; Richard Langton, a bachelor in canon law, flourished 1457-58; Lythe is in Yorkshire. Belonged to the Welsh antiquary Robert Davies of Llannerch and Gwysaney (ca. 1658-1710). The earliest known catalogue of the Llannerch manuscripts, dated 1740, lists this...
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