This 14th century Italian manuscript, probably from Bologna, contains the Digestum Vetus, a fundamental work which attests to the 14th century's interest in the history of Roman law. It comprises various reference texts, which are systematically accompanied by the Glossa ordinaria, the so-called "Magna glossa" by Franciscus Accursius, an interlinear gloss and the gloss of the Gloss, which are works of explanation and instruction for the use of the text. Many manicules or fists (lat manicula, ae: small hands) testify to the assiduous labor which a large number of readers have performed on this dry text. This manuscript contains numerous pecia marks. A detached page (f. 37bis) contains a poem to the reader by the Italian jurist Angelus Boncambius (about 1450).
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- Angelus Boncambius: Carmen ad lectores. (f. 37bis)
Incipit: Hinc iterum sacras lector nune disce Camenas Si uitare cupis crimen auaritię
Explicit: Virgilius compto carmine uictus erit Eia agite, o iuuenes, tantas addiscite Musas An preceptori munera ferre graue est
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- Angelus Boncambius: Carmen ad lectores. (f. 37bis)
Incipit: Hinc iterum sacras lector nune disce Camenas Si uitare cupis crimen auaritię
Explicit: Virgilius compto carmine uictus erit Eia agite, o iuuenes, tantas addiscite Musas An preceptori munera ferre graue est
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- Accursius, Franciscus Senior (Author) | Accursius, Franciscus Senior (Commentator) | Angelus Boncambius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) Found in: Standard description