Beinecke MS 602
Southern France (?), s. XIII/XIV
Repertorium iuris

ff. 1r-46v	 // apparet quod, si littere legationis indeterminate loquantur, plena est interpretatio 
facienda. Quedam tamen sunt que in generali legatione non transeunt. Et quod legatus de latere 
non potest se subicere, ubi in foro anime alic(ui) infra papam, notatur
.e..v. Illud autem et se. 
 An legatus possit excommunicare et punire eos qui sibi vel suis vel eius nunciis iniuriam vel 
dampnum  inferunt vel eius iurisdictioni impediunt notatur .e.t..I. circa principium. 
 Quod ex virtute litterarum legationis potestas legatorum dependet et quod legatus vices domini 
pape gerit notatur ..II. 
 An quilibet patronus clericus vel laycus teneatur coram legato de iure patronatus et aliis 
spiritualibus respondere notatur .e.t..V. circa principium...
[f. 1rb :]  De sententia quam tulit legatus sub hac forma: "Quisquis furtum fecerit sit 
excommunicatus", queritur an duret legatione finita.  Item per quem absolventur legatione finita 
violatores talium sentenciarum et statutorum penalium legatorum de hiis ditto
..IIII.v. Sed per 
quem et se. 
 Item queritur de sentencia quam tulit legatus sub hac forma: "Si quis sic fecerit, talem penam 
patiatur", an durat legatione finita, et si legatus aliter advocationis officium interdicat, an finita 
legatione talis poterit advocare de hiis, .e..v. Sed numquam potest ... 
[f. 46v :] Christus. Christus est scientia, in prohemio .v. Ceterum. 
 Christi actio nostra debet esse instructio .t. de teste ..I.v. Quid ergo. 
 Ubi Christus non est fundamentum, nullum boni operis superest edificium, .t. de summa 
Trinitate in principio.
Christianus. Omnes Christiani dicuntur esse fratres, .t. de denunciatione
..II.v. Item opponitur.

Second half of an alphabetical Repertorium iuris, from Legatio to Christianus (Xpianus). The first 
lemmata are: legatio, legatum, legitimitas, lenitas, lenocinium, lepra, lex, libellus, liber [book], 
liber [free], licere, licitatio, ligare; the last ones are: vox, urbs, usucapio, usque, usus, ususfructus, 
usura, ut, utilitas, vulnus, vulpis, vultus, uxor, Christus, Christianus.Numerous corrections and on 
some pages extensive additions in the margins (e.g. ff. 11v, 39r). Part of the right-hand column 
of ff. 24v and 33v is blank and in both cases there is a slight overlap with the text on the next 
page. 


Parchment (goatskin), ff. 47, 350 x 245 mm. The outer side of the quires is flesh side. There were 
originally 126 ff., as appears from the contemporary note "Fol. 126" at the top of  f. 46v. The 
inner top and bottom corners of the leaves badly damaged by mice (?).

I 8 (- 1, ff. 1-7), II 8 (ff. 8-15), III-IV 4 (ff. 16-23), V 10 (-9, -10; ff. 24-31), VI 2 (ff. 32-33), VII 8 
(ff. 34-41), VIII 8 (-1, -2, -8; ff. 42-46). There are horizontal catchwords at right on ff. 19v and 
23v; on some leaves red signatures, the system of which is not clear. 
Ruled with lead for two columns of varying dimensions and with a varying number of lines, 
between 50 and 63 below top line.

Apparently copied by 8 scribes, each writing one or two quires in small Gothica Textualis or 
Semitextualis Libraria, having features of the Northern as well as the Southern type: A (ff. 1-7), 
Semitextualis; B (ff. 8-15), Textualis with "box"-a; C (ff. 16-24), larger Textualis; this is the only 
scribe writing catchwords; D (ff. 25-31), Textualis with "box"-a; E (ff. 32-33), Textualis; F (ff. 
34-41), Semitextualis; G (ff. 42-46), Semitextualis. Carefully corrected in the margins. Many 
lemmata are repeated in the margins (underlined).

Numerous paragraph-marks; red flourished initials at the head of each lemma. The decorative 
braces which are consistently used to connect the text written in the open space at the end of 
paragraphs with its beginning on the line below are of  various shapes, apparently proper to each 
scribe.

Unbound.

The numerous scribes taking part in the copying of this manuscript, the changes of hand at the 
transition of one quire to the next  and the bad connections between quires IV and V and V and 
VI point to the special conditions  under which this manuscript was produced.

Gift of Thomas E. Marston, Dec. 1977.

Bibliography: 
Shailor, "Acquisitions", p. 96.

Albert Derolez

R 06.06.08