Item Info
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: These initials, the first filled with the bust of a cardinal and the third with the bust of a bearded man, would have marked secondary textual divisions in a glossed copy of a legal text such as Gratian's Decretum or the Decretals of Gregory IX. This type of initial decoration is commonly found in legal manuscripts produced in Bologna in the first decades of the fourteenth century. Founded in the thirteenth century, the university in Bologna became an important center for the study of law in the Middle Ages. As a consequence, the city also became one of the great centers for the production of legal manuscripts, many of which, as these initials attest, were beautifully illuminated.
These cuttings belong to the same manuscript as Lewis E M 26:4 and 26:5.
Notes:
Three initial Qs
Sirsi Catalog Key:
1594872
Country:
Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Bologna
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin):
1325
Image Dimensions Width:
135 mm
ShelfMark:
Lewis E M 26:7
front
reverse