London, British Library, Harley 3256

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
Library London, British Library
Shelfmark Harley 3256
Century saec. XII
Provenance ?
European region of origin Northern France
Collection Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum


London, British Library, Harley 3256 is a copy of Gratian's Concordia discordantium canonum. It contains leaves of different ages, the largest portion being from the twelfth century. In the fourteenth century, the manuscript was prepared to function as a pecia manuscript rented out in Paris by the librarius Alanus Britannicus. A drawing of him appears on fol. 98r

Gratian manuscript, siglum: Lh.

Literature

Weigand, Glossen pp. 812-813.- Murano, Tipologia degli exemplaria p. 118 n.42.- Wei, The Later Development of Gratian's Decretum p. 154.