Contents MS 141/ff. 117r-120r contains an abbreviation of the text of Church law, compiled and written in the 12th century by a canon lawyer known as Gratian. This work came to be used as a legal textbook throughout medieval European universities, and inspired many related commentaries, abbreviations and notes. The version on f. 117r of MS 141 begins with the words Liber decretorum est distinctus in tres partes, and ends 3 folios later on f. 120r with ...

Scope and Contents Two leaves from a copy of the Gratian Decretals. These two leaves contain some text from this work, and many marginal notes around the text itself. The notes may be part of a 13th commentary on Gratian's Decretals. A cornerstone of medieval canon law, the Decretals are divided into three parts, the second of which is made up of 36 'causes' which are further divided into questions dealing with the ecclesiastical administration and marriage. In the 33rd cause specifically, the third question...