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Source des données : Mmmonk

• The fourteenth-century manuscript 354 contains two separate texts: (ff. 1r-54v) the Apparatus domini Digni super titulum de regulis iuris, and (ff. 55r-174v) the Casus legales IV librorum Decretalium. The parts were written as two separate entities, in a different handwriting and colour of ink. The first text is a commentary on the Liber sextus decretalium, written by Dinus de Rossonis Mugellanus (c. 1253- c. 1303), an Italian jurist who was educated and later taught at Bologna. He might have been involved in the writing of the Liber sextus, that was authored by pope Boniface VIII. The Casus legales is an anonymous text, and is a reference work compiled out of summaries of laws mentioned in Bernard of Parma's Glossa ordinaria on the Decretals. This work became extremely popular with law students. This text is incomplete, as it breaks off in the middle of a paragraph. This volume indeed appears to have been designed as a study book. Both parts have a layout with wide outer margins surrounding two columns text per page. Nonetheless, marginalia are rare, with the exception of a few drawings throughout the manuscript. Decoration is sparse: titles have been added in red ink, and space has been left open to indicate where initials were to be added. Some what out of place is the elaborately decorated and even gilded initial at the beginning of the Apparatus. The final fly leaf originates from a copy of the Psalms, with verses surrounded by the commentary in a much smaller writing. The initials of the verses are blue and red. The leaf appears contemporary. Both the first and final leaf feature the cross-shaped stamp of Ten Duinen. It had been in the possession of Ter Doest beforehand, although no ownership marks have been found to corroborate this. The binding is brown leather over wooden boards, showing a blindstamped saltire cross within a rectangular frame. The position of five metal mounds and two clasps, now lost, is visible. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer]