text type is that of the Bible of 1462. Hain *9623. Brit. Mus. 15th
cent., I, p. 33 (IC. 217).

The first page of each of the three works is ornamented with a floral
scroll border in colors. At the head of the several books are thirteen
initials in gold and colors. Chapter initials in alternate red and blue;
initial-strokes in red in both text and commentary.

The present volume agrees in contents with the fifth and last volume of
the Corpus juris as it is found arranged in the medieval MSS., except
for the omission of the Institutiones, already sufficiently accessible
in separate editions, of which no less than fifty were printed in the
15th century, the first of them by Schoeffer himself in 1468. The first
three volumes of the Corpus were occupied by the Digests, the fourth by
the Codex lib. i-ix. The last three books of the Codex relate mainly to
public law and having lost much of their importance were transferred to
the fifth volume.

That the order of the three parts in the present copy, viz. 1. Novellae,
2. Consuetudines, 3. Codex lib. x-xii, is that intended by the printer,
is clear both from the position and from the language of the
colophon--the position because the colophon is attached to the Codex,
and the language because it describes the volume as consisting of "the
ten Collations and the three books of the Codes." The Novellae were
usually divided by the commentators into nine Collations, perhaps, as
Savigny suggests, to parallel the first nine books of the Codex.
Sometimes, however, as in the present case, the Consuetudines feudorum
were joined with them and reckoned as a tenth collation. Notwithstanding
these plain indications, in the copy described by Hain *9623, and in the
British Museum copy (as at present, though not as originally, bound),