Corpus iuris civilis (Corpus of Civil Law) (DS5114) (Q22842)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E M 26:1, Lewis E M 26:1, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_026_001.html)
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Corpus iuris civilis (Corpus of Civil Law) (DS5114)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E M 26:1, Lewis E M 26:1, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_026_001.html)

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    4 December 2023
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    Corpus iuris civilis (Corpus of Civil Law)
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    Extent: 82 x 113 mm; parchment
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    Court scene
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    This miniature prefaces Book 37 of a fifty-book collection of Roman laws known as the Digest, the first of three parts of the Corpus iuris civilis (Corpus of Civil Law) compiled by the legal scholar Tiborian under the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (r. 527-565 A.D). Tiborian collected and organized the existing body of classical and current law into a coherent collection of legal...
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    This cutting can be dated between 1270 and 1280.
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    Script: Littera bononiensis
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    14 April 2025
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