It’s A Wrap
October 3, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Photographic Exhibition
Q for ‘Quem’
Laying Down the Law
A leaf from the Novellae Constitutiones (or Authenticum)
of the Emperor Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis
with Parts of ‘Novels’ Numbers 159.2 and 134.1–3
plus Embellishments
Reused as a Wrapper, with Added Vellum Tie,
for Some Other Material (now lost)
Still preserved in this folder form
Budny Handlist Number 7
Continuing our series of blogposts on Manuscript Studies, Mildred Budny reports on manuscripts and fragments dispersed in various ways. Now we unveil a leaf reused as an wrapper-style enclosure or tied folder, with its own story to tell.
Legal Manuscript Leaf in Latin on Parchment
Made probably at Bologna, circa 1300 CE,
with Medieval Additions and Modern Alterations
Purchased in Florence, Italy, in June 1972