I[n]cipiu[n]t Flores s[ive] Decreto[rum] [com]pilat[i]o[n]es
Subtitle: elega[n]tiora uidelic[et] dicta s[ecundum] ordine[m] toti[us] libri ...
Contributors: Henry, of Avranches, 13th cent.; Gratian, 12th cent.
Published: 1260
Language: lat
Number of pages: 50
Subjects: Gratian, 12th cent. -- Manuscripts; Canon law -- Manuscripts; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Washington (D.C.)
Genres: Manuscripts.
Notes: Former owners: John Sprint (d. 1590; inscribed); Edward Hailstone (d. 1890; ownership label).
Ricci, S. de.  Medieval and Renaissance mss. (suppl.), p. 114, F6
Library of Congress.  Medieval and Renaissance ms. bks., MS 101
Ms.
An otherwise unreported anonymous epitome of Gratian's Decretum, with a set of mnemonic verses for each "causa" of its second part; the verses are known from elsewhere as Versus de Decretis cum sentenciis eorumdem, by Henry of Avranches. Cf. Rigg, A.G.  A history of Anglo-Latin literature 1066-1422.
Text proper (after the incipit) begins: Humanu[m] gen[us] duob[us] modis regit[ur]. Ius nat[ur]ale e[st] ...
Date 1260 used in a form letter on leaf 11a instead of Gratian's 1105.
Written in England (the ancient diocese of Rochester in West Kent is named on leaf 11a), entirely by one monastic scribe, in a utilitarian gothic of three systematically used small sizes.
Two columns, 49 lines.
Post-medieval foliation (1-50) in ink. Older numbering on leaf versos (liiij-ciij) shows the ms. was at one time part of a larger codex. Leaves 1-42 are also paginated (i-lxxxiiij), and the columns numbered (1-169, due to one omission).
Rubricated in red and blue.
Purchased by LC in 1947 from H.P. Kraus (LL 5452F13).