Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Two leaves from a canon law book, probably written in England end 13th - start 14th century, reused as pastedowns.
Parchment
No pricking visible. Written space 145 x 100 mm. No ruling discernible. 2 columns, 35 lines. 10 lines occupy 45 mm.
Written in a smalltextura
Some text-capitals lined with red. Paraphs in red.
Written in England?, turn of 13th - 14th century.
Former pastedowns, creased, with stains from turn-ins of brown covering, from a unidentified book.Portfolio I/16 (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
On sons of priests and promotion.
On hospitality. “Debet ordinandus esse doctor cuius doctrina debet consistere in duobus uidelicet in doctrina correctionis et sermone predicacionis” (beginning of a section on this leaf).