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[LEGAL MANUSCRIPTS]

Bifolium from a copy of the Digest of Justinian, with two single leaves from another legal compendium (probably the Decretals), these still in situ on pasteboards from a later binding, all manuscripts in Latin, on vellum
[Italy
14th century]
€600 - €800

Four leaves, comprising: (a) bifolium from the Digest, with text in double columns of 38 lines of a rounded Italian bookhand, gloss in smaller script filling the margins, initials and paraph marks in alternate red or blue, recovered from reuse in a later binding and with stains, small holes, splits (damage to edges repaired with modern vellum), fair condition, each leaf approximately 360 by 255mm.; and
(b) two leaves from a legal compendium, with text in double column of 42 lines in rounded Italian bookhand, margins filled with gloss in smaller script, red or blue paraph marks, initials in the same with penwork in contrasting colour, both in situ on pasteboards from a later book, much stained, torn and illegible in places, text apparently much more visible on side facing the pasteboards, fair condition, each board: 315 by 22mm