DUL Add.MS. 1950/A/30Manuscript notebook (fragments)
Held by: Durham University Library: Additional Manuscripts

Cut down sheets from the bifolia of a notebook containing notes and copies of some letters from Cicero to Dolabella, used to make pasteboards for binding.


Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m9c67wm86p.html


Physical description of manuscript
Support

Paper (watermark: a shield charged with a Greek cross, from which a line rises surmounted by a clover leaf and about which is wrapped a snake)

Extent: 14 pieces
Size: 140 mm x 200 mm
Script

Written in humanist italic


Manuscript history
Creation

Written in Europe, 16th century.

Provenance

Former pasteboard of a volume Shelfmark of source: SA 0039/1-4, formerly Routh XLIV.G.21 containing 4 items, including Petrarch, De rebus memorandis (Louvain: 1483-5) and Articuli in Anglia et Parisius condemnati, (Cologne: ca. 1488), rebound in 1928. Portfolio I/27b (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections). Offsets from MS.1950/A/29, the former wrapper of SA 0039 are on DUL Add.MS.1950/A/30/1-2, the outer sheets of the pasteboard boards.


Manuscript contents
Modern title: Manuscript notebook (fragments reused as pasteboard)
Date: 16th century
Language: Latin

Cut up sheets from bifolia - a notebook containing notes in columns and Cicero, Letters - IX, 13 (to Dolabella) (30/2); IX, 10 (to Dolabella) (30/5); IX, 9 (to Dolabella) (30/14).


Digitised material for Manuscript notebook reused for pasteboard, fragments - DUL Add.MS.1950/A/30
Digitised March 2018
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m9c67wm86p.html
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