Boethius, On Geometry (with other geometrical works)

The page number 1231 is written in a later hand in the right margin. There is a faint pencil "4" at the bottom right corner.

smoke rising. But the origin of this cause must be inquired into in a deeper manner. For controversies of this kind arise through inheritances, which are litigated in ordinary matters. Both of this envy regarding position, and how they are ordered. And then the surveyor agmensor land-measurer/surveyor hastens to go to the places to reveal which kind of litigation is looming. Concerning Alluvion.

A large ornamental drop cap 'G' in red ink with blue penwork flourishes extends into the margin. The types of controversies arising from a river are these: not that it is a matter of occupying fields, but that the right to water will not have a claim to repetition for what has been taken away. And matters must be retained in the country by necessity. Let anyone who has fortified his own bank do so without harm to another. But if a torrent of the river should run down at some time so violent that it changes its own channel, and occupies fields across the bank, and even often creates islands, then Cassius Longinus a prominent Roman jurist, a most expert author of law and judge, established this: that the possessor loses whatever the water has taken away by licking at it, since he ought to guard his own bank without damage to another. But if a greater force should run down and it changes its own channel into the boundary of another, and an island is formed in which it has run, each one ought to recognize the measure of the greater river, and he to whom the property belongs will claim that island for himself and will occupy it, because it appears that it was snatched away not by the negligence of the possessor, but by the violence of the storm. Concerning the boundaries of fields.

A large ornamental drop cap 'A' in blue ink with red penwork flourishes extends into the margin. A ager subseciivus left-over/surplus field is, according to its definitions, inscribed in the records, and it is entered into the archives of Caesar tabularium cesaris imperial archives. And that which has been granted by favor or designated for a colony, whether for the first settlers or for another cause.