Bifolium from a copy of Justinian, Digest, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, late thirteenth century or c. 1300] Two conjoined leaves, each with double column of 43 lines of main text, that text encased within smaller script of gloss on three sides (once probably four, but uppermost margin trimmed away), paragraph marks in red, red rubrics, tall and elegant simple initials in red or blue touched in contrasting colour, other marginal glosses in contemporary hand added in bas-de-page, trimmed at edge of upright margin with small losses there to edge of columns of gloss, some old water damage at head of leaves with ink flaked away there, else in fair and presentable condition, each leaf 310 by 220mm.
Bifolium from a copy of Justinian, Digest, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, late thirteenth century or c. 1300] Two conjoined leaves, each with double column of 43 lines of main text, that text encased within smaller script of gloss on three sides (once probably four, but uppermost margin trimmed away), paragraph marks in red, red rubrics, tall and elegant simple initials in red or blue touched in contrasting colour, other marginal glosses in contemporary hand added in bas-de-page, trimmed at edge of upright margin with small losses there to edge of columns of gloss, some old water damage at head of leaves with ink flaked away there, else in fair and presentable condition, each leaf 310 by 220mm.
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