Rhine valley, mid-thirteenth century

Like the Ambrose leaf, these pages show the scars of having been cut out and pasted into the binding of another book. The text is from the Corpus Iuris Canonici, the "body of canon law" assembled in the mid-twelfth century by Gratian. Others added to and commented on the text of Gratian's work throughout the later Middle Ages, and the resulting text was eventually accepted as the authoritative collection of ecclesiastical law.

Parchment, 2 folios, 306 x 219 (171 x 110) mm, 2 columns, 41 lines, in Latin, written in Romanesque script.