London, British Library, Harley 3256

Selected Canon Law Collections, ca. 500–1234
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Library London, British Library
Shelfmark Harley 3256
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Provenance ?
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Collection Gratian, Concordia discordantium canonum

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The manuscript 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 f.98r

Gratian manuscript, siglum: Lh.

Literature

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