Special Collections & Archives: MS.F.4.22 Fragment

MS.F.4.22 (pastedowns). Commentary on decretals (2 bifolia fragments). Late 12th or early 13th century.

Physical description: parts of two bifolia (leaves folded to produce four pages) with strips from the same text used to strengthen quires. 

Contents: Commentary on a compilation of decretals (collected letters giving papal rulings).

Decoration: initials in red or stroked in red, offset from text into margin.

Provenance: MS.F.4.22 donated by Robert George Morton in 1969.

• 1983: N. R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) in description of MS.F.4.22