Farfel Notebook 02: Leaves 065-134

The century after the Norman Conquest - this period is the greatest in the history of English book production (12th) - Canterbury, Exeten, Dunham at the time of the Conquest each sheet was normally ruled on the hair side to a hand print. about 1170 each sheet was ruled to a pencil on both sides after folding. Norman scribes seldom used any punctuation other than the point. ENglish Scribes - tick + point (punctures elevatus) now marks 7 and - (13 + early 13 C manuscripts) imported from Normandy. The English hand is perfectly upright.

Phillips Catalogue The text is the normal text of a 13th C. Bible, i.e. the modern Vulgate to the addition of Eadres III [this is here called the Apocalypse of Eadres, the modern Eadres II being called Nehemia 2 this is here called Eadres II (Eadres I is the modern Eadres I + II)] Acts follows the Pauline Epistles as is usual. Interpretations of Hebrew names begins A-z apprehendes

Most MSS of the N.T. written before the 13th C include a set of 10 tables that serve as a concordance for the naratives of the 4 Gospels The syotem which is based on a comparative tabulation of numbered sections of each Gospel was conceived by Eusebus (c260-340) The Dominican order participated actively in the revision of the Vulgate, undertaking campaigns to correct the text of the Bible in 1236, 48, + 56. Anglo-Norman - it is very difficult to distinguish between MSS from England + Northern France of this period.

112 1983 -350F = $83.73 now 950 for $120 April '80 Paris - Mme Possignol quail St. Michel Single vellum leaf, 283 x 450 mm. Written in a gothic hand, 38 lines of text in 2 colums, surrounded by 70 lines of commentary, several interlinear + marginal glosses in various cursive not arial (cancelleresca [inserted] see E A Lowe plate XIX [end inserted] mimusile) hands of the 14 + 15 th C. Brown ink. Headings + initial letters in red + blue. Liber I. Italy, 14th C. p. 14 (?Bologna) -Italian Gothic illumination come to life in Bologna, in the shadow of the Umiu. which drew students from all over Europe through the fame of ist professors + Their high level of institution, + encoutaged the development of a local book industry whose production of legal texts was in demand in Bologna + other cities. Books written at Bologna in the 13 + 14 th centuries are easly recognized by the use of a special Type of letter, (square structure) the "littera [inserted] tall unsirifed letters to short ascenders + descenders. [end inserted] bononiersis". not unda H. C. Shulz "Scholastic script" (Gothic) - the most individual is that emanating uncrossed et sign wavy abbreviatial sign for n, er, re etc c - reversed c for con ie = esse n for non (Italianism e = est suprascript is sign an elongated cresent open towards the lower left 7 ( of reg in Italism gothic instead of the more usual form of a 9 as found in nothern gothic) square structure of the letters horizontal ascender of the d q for qui initially + alone (vertical lines in the capitals, characteristic of Italian nubarcation Comon Law - the body of law based upon legislation of the councils + the popes. Common law is preminently the law of the church courts. "Canons" of councils + the "decretals of the popes.

* Deaetalium - D. Gregorii Papae IX Liber I (primus) Titulus VII De Translatione Epiocopi. Cap II Idem Decano et Capitalo Andegauensi Cap II Idem Episcopo et Petro Scholastico Magunticensi

Corpus Juris Canonici 2 vol. K C3627 Ref. Rm. Col I De Editionibus Decreti Gratiani (Discordantium Canonum) Decreti prima - tertia Vol. II a) Decretales Gregorii IX. (5 books) b) Liber Sextus Decretalium D Bonifacii Papae VIII c) Clementis Papae V Constitutiones d) De Extravagantium Collectionibus (D. Joannis Papae XXII) (Concordance of Discordant Canone) Corpus Juris Camonici a) Concordantia discordantium canonum usually called the Decretum See #136. 1140 Gratian - Bologna b) Extra Gregory IX in 1234 (1227-1241) see #248, 364. Boniface VIII in 1298 (1294-1303) (1305-1314) Clement V in 1313 - reissued in 1317 by John XXII 1316-1334) Extravagantes - made up by several popes between 1298 + 1448 The Corupus juris camonici was put in its inal form in 1563.

Gregory IX caused the 5 books fo the Decretales to be published by Raimond de Pennafort in 1234. These consist almost entirely of rescripts issued by the latter popes, especially Alexander III, Innocent III, Hohnims III + Gregory himself. They form the most essential part of the canon law the Decretum of Gration being comaratively obsolete. Bontiface VIII was the most famous of all the popes bearing this name. Dante described him as the "Prince of the new Pharises." The arrangement in 2 columns of text surrounded on all 4 sides by commentary, a practice developed in medicinal manuscritps, was firmly established in the Bolognese Pecretales of the 14th C.

Corpus Juris Cuilis 1) Codex or Code - a collection of imperial constitutions after the time of Hadrian - contains a number of dated legal enactments of Justinian See #378 2) the Digest or Pandects - a selection of quotations from the classic jurists, esp. Gaius, Paulus, Ulpian etc. 3) Institutes - a textbook based on Gaius's Institutes 4) Novelas or Novellae, new laws which followed a revision + amplification of the Codex. The Novellae comprire Institutions legal enactments after publication of the code + arua most valuable source not only fro the legislation itself, but for official ideology + propaganda. the 1st body of law to be given printed form : Peter Schoefter, Mainz 24 May 1460 Goff J 506 C 482 - birth of Justinian 524 - marriage of Justinian + Theodora 527 - death of justinian I - succession of Justinian 529 - 7 April 1st Union of God issued. (a radical reform which would restore Roman Law to its pristine purity, to all uncertainties + contradictions removed, + all indecent antiquanianism dropped. 533 - Pubication of the Digest - compilation of all the responses of the j misconsults of the Classic period, arranged according to subject matters + divided into 50 books. Nov. 533 - Institutes 534 publication 2nd version of Code - its is this 2nd version which we still possess. 565 - 14 Nov. - death of Justian.

In civil law, the new starting point was the rediscovery about 1070 of Justinian's Digest. The standard apparatius was of Accursius (1228) For canon law, Gratian, a Camaldolese monk at bologna, had compiled his Concordia discordantium canonum. The standard apparatus to it was the work of Bartholomeau of Brescia (c. 1250) (Casus decretorum)

113 3L = $7.19 Sept. '80 London - Charles Traylen

See #21 Nicholaus de Lyra (c 1270-1349) Postilla super Psalterium (Postila of N de Lyre on the Psalter) Paris: Ulrich Gering, 5 Nov. 1483. 40

Goff N. 123 HC 10378 BMC VIII 25 Polain (B) 2831 diii (of 8) Cop Newberry Library, Chicago Ill. Mazarine #1440 folio 28 (of 306) Rubricated in red + blue to yellow (capitals)

309 leaves, 39 lines, 155x28 mm Types 100R, text of Psalms; 80R, An alphabet of minute gothic lower case is used for reference letters in the text of the Psalms. Capital spaces to guide letters. Division marks shaped L are used in both text and gloss.

80R text Type. Flat Topped A. narrow H, wide M + V. In use 100R large text type. In and after 1478.

-of Constance, died 1510, had been student at Basel Univ. Ulrich Gering - his association to Fringurger + Crantz having come to an end in Jan 1477/8 + 27 Sept 1480, Guillermus Maynyal signed 5 editions as his partner. Gering's name is not again found until 9 June 1482 + disappears after 1484 for a considerable time, being only mentioned once in 1491, until he resumes regular printing to Bentold Rimbolt on his partner on 8 may 1494 + continues to do so until the end of the century - printing office - rue de Sorbonne. Together to his colleagues M. Friburger + M. Cantz, U Gering set up the 1st press in Paris in 1471. At 1st they were in the pay of the protesors J. Heynlim + G. Fichet who had provided the necessary premises in the building of the Borbonne. But in 1473 they set up their own press in the rue St. Jacques, in the hose "subsole aureo."