Summary:
The fourteenth-century manuscript 354 contains two separate texts:
(ff. 1r-54v) the Apparatus domini Digni super titulum de regulis
iuris, and (ff. 55r-174v) the Casus legales IV librorum
Decretalium. The parts were written as two separate entities, in a
different handwriting and colour of ink. The first text is a
commentary on the Liber sextus decretalium, written by Dinus de
Rossonis Mugellanus (c. 1253- c. 1303), an Italian jurist who was
educated and later taught at Bologna. He might have been involved
in the writing of the Liber sextus, that was authored by pope
Boniface VIII. The Casus legales is an anonymous text, and is a
reference work compiled out of summaries of laws mentioned in
Bernard of Parma's Glossa ordinaria on the Decretals. This work
became extremely popular with law students. This text is
incomplete, as it breaks off in the middle of a paragraph. This
volume indeed appears to have been designed as a study book. Both
parts have a layout with wide outer margins surrounding two columns
text per page. Nonetheless, marginalia are rare, with the exception
of a few drawings throughout the manuscript. Decoration is sparse:
titles have been added in red ink, and space has been left open to
indicate where initials were to be added. Some what out of place is
the elaborately decorated and even gilded initial at the beginning
of the Apparatus. The final fly leaf originates from a copy of the
Psalms, with verses surrounded by the commentary in a much smaller
writing. The initials of the verses are blue and red. The leaf
appears contemporary. Both the first and final leaf feature the
cross-shaped stamp of Ten Duinen. It had been in the possession of
Ter Doest beforehand, although no ownership marks have been found
to corroborate this. The binding is brown leather over wooden
boards, showing a blindstamped saltire cross within a rectangular
frame. The position of five metal mounds and two clasps, now lost,
is visible. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer] Title:
Apparatus domini Digni et alia super decretalia [titel
fenestra] Note:
Convoluut
In de marges staan hier en daar (bv. f. 44v) schetsen van
figuurtjes, mogelijk toegevoegd door een latere hand
Achterste schutblad bevat fragment Psalmen (61:3-10) met
commentaren Topic general subdivision:
Godsdienst
Wet, recht, regulering Material:
Perkament Extent:
i + 174 ff. Dimensions:
27 x 18 cm Decoration and binding:
gedecoreerde initialen
Middeleeuwse band Script:
gotische textualis Provenance:
Cisterciënzerabdij Ter Doest (S.O.Cist.)
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.) Genre/form:
Juridische traktaten en handboeken (kerkelijk en bur
