An original illuminated manuscript leaf on animal vellum, written in Latin in fine rounded Gothic script.(458x305mm).
Five two-line illuminated penwork initials in blue on red, or red on purple and numerous text rubrications illuminated in red and blue. Condition note: Several unobtrusive soft creases on the leaf due to folding.
Bologna, c. 1325-50
This rare early legal leaf contains a portion of the Liber Sextus Decretalium surrounded by the commentary of Johannes Andreae. The text is enhanced by numerous contemporary marginal glosses.
Giovanni d'Andrea or Johannes Andreae, (c. 1270-1275 – 1348) was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages. His contemporaries referred to him as iuris canonici fons et tuba - ''The fount and trumpet of canon law''.
Most important among his works were extensive commentaries on all of the official collections of papal decretals, papal judgments in the form of letters to delegated judges that were at the core of canon law. Ref: Fitzwilliam Museum, Illuminating the Law (texts).
Shipped unmatted.
