Codex, Liber Sextus (DS338) (Q1976)

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Codex, Liber Sextus (DS338)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from New York University (Fragment 051)

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    Codex, Liber Sextus
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    This collection of English binding fragments was given to NYU by Homer Lewis Bartlett (1858-1940), who graduated in 1884 from NYU with a degree in Science and Civil Engineering; he married Clarice Sherman Noble in 1892; they had five children.
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    by 1902, he was second vice-president of the Eastern District Savings Bank. De Ricci states that the collection (of 101 fragments with 70 others laid into the album) was given to NYU in 1884 (the same year in which Homer L. Bartlett graduated).
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    s. XIII(3/4); 1250-1275
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    Script, f. 1r-v: Gothic.
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    Layout, f. 1r-v: 2 center columns surrounded on all sides by a gloss.
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    Bibliography: De Ricci, p. 1346.
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    f. 1r-v: Latin.
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    f. 1r-v: Paleography: very short proportions; close to a box-A (which pushes the script later in date); 2-shaped r after any lobe and after the box-A; 2-shaped abbreviation mark for con/cum.
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    f. 1r-v: Contains 6.40.3 pr. to 6.42.26.
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    Incipit, f. 1r-v: Imperatores Diocletianus, Maximianus. Ex repudiacione fidei commissi doli mali excepcio iusta causa intercedente//.
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    Explicit, f. 1r-v: //masculis esse sublatam pertinere quidem ad sensum nostrae legis, quam super hoc promulgavimus.
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    The class for Middle English paleography, taught by Prof. Christopher Baswell in Spring term, 2018, identified scripts in blitz sessions at the end of term; we thank these students very much.
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    28 June 2023
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    28 June 2023
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