the legal book. from late antiquity to the middle ages june 30th, 2014

The Legal Book. From Late Antiquity to the Middle AgesJune 30th, 2014

Lorenza Iannacci

‘From Bologna to the Blogosphere.A History of Written Correspondence’ Summer School

Bologna, June 23rd - July 4th 2014

Legal book

function of constituting and regulating

- acts of magistrates and pontiffs - codification of civil and canonical law - Communes’ Statute or epitomes of laws - regolae of the monastic communities - matriculae or statutes of congregations and society- legal comments

VolumenRoll (papyrus, parchment)

CodexCode (parchment, paper)

II-IV cent. a.C

Theodosian Code commissioned and promulgated by Emperor Theodosius II in 438 

Corpus Juris Civilis, the collection and revision of legal texts drawn up by the order of the

Emperor Justinian  

529: Codex (first edition), a codification of laws (leges) promulgated by the emperors from Hadrian to that date

533: Istitutiones, a manual for teaching law in 4 books

533: Digestorum seu Pandectarum libri L, or Digestum, a systematic collection of opinions and comments taken from the jurists’ works of the republican and imperial Roman ages, basically the iura of the Roman law

534: Codex repetitae praelectionis (second edition)

534-565: Novellae Constitutiones, Latin and Greek Justinian’s new constitutions

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 6th c., Littera Florentina,

Digestum, l. 11v

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, 6th c., Littera Florentina, Digestum, l. 336v

Lombard Kingdom in the 7th century

Paris, Bibliothéque Nationale de France, ms. Latin 4613, 10th c., Edictum Rothari, ll. 12v-13r

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 733, 9th c., Carolingian

Capitularia,l. 35r

St.Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 914, 9th c.,

Regula Sancti Benedicti, l. 221v

Modena, Archivio del Capitolo della Cattedrale, O.I.2, 10th c., Leges

Salicae, ll. 5v-6r

Paris, Bibliothéque Nationale de France, ms. Latin 4450, 12th c., Digestum vetus, l. 11r

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 4308, 13th c., Digestum vetus with Accursius’ apparatus, l. 10v

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 2226, 14th c., Institutiones with Accursius’ apparatus, l. 10v

Particular of pecia sign

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 4215, 14th c., Rolandinus Passegerii, Summa

totius artis notarie, ll. 1r and 23v-24r

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 4308, 13th c., Digestum vetus with Accursius’ apparatus, l. 10v

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 4308, 13th c., Digestum vetus with Accursius’

apparatus, l. 105r

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 4215, 14th c., Rolandinus Passegerii, Summa totius artis notarie, ll. 23v-24r

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 2226, 14th c., Institutiones with Accursius’ apparatus, ll. 8v-9r

Cluster-shape gloss

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 2226, 14th c., Institutiones with Accursius’ apparatus, l. 17r

«Fossato»

.Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 2226, 14th c., Institutiones with Accursius’ apparatus, l. 10v

Printed book vs. manuscript

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), A.V.B.III.20, Institutionum libri IV cum

glossa Accursi, 1487, ll. 5v-6r

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria (BUB), ms. 2226, 14th c., Institutiones with Accursius’ apparatus, ll. 8v-9r