Physical description: On parchment. ii + 211 + iii leaves, 370 x 220 mm.
Contents: 1. Institutes of Justinian, 2. Authenticum, and 3. Tres libri Codicis, with apparatus of Accursius added. Signatures in red. f.212 is a leaf from a 13th c. legal(?) manuscript used in the binding. Verses written on the recto in the 15th c.
Decoration: Initials: 1. f.1. Historiated I with human-headed dragon; gold on blue patterned in white for books 2-4; blue or red with red or blue, outside witten space. 2. unfilled space on f.56; Is of Imperator outside written space; red or blue with blue or red, outside the written space, for paragraphs. 3. unfilled spaces for books 10 ands 12; book 11 and Is of Imperator and of Idem red or blue, outside the written space; 1-line red or blue.
Binding: 19th century (former MSS handlist records "modern binding lettered Institutiones Iustiniani").
Provenance 1300-1400: Ownership inscription
Provenance 1400-1500: Ownership inscription and various scribbled names.
Provenance 1845-1900: f.1v note on transfer of manuscript from J. Arthur (with others), probably to W. H. Rylands
Provenance 1845-1900: Bookplate of W. Harry Rylands (1847-1922).
Provenance 1900-1900: Thomas Glazebrook Rylands bequest (1900): Rylands catalogue, page 1.
Microfilm copy available for consultation.
