Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Two leaves from a 12th century glossed copy of Proverbs.
Parchment
Pricking slits in the inner margin of f.1. Ruled in softish brown, for text and gloss together. Written space of gloss 208 x 120 mm. 22 lines of text; first line of gloss above top ruled line.
Written in proto-gothic textura, in two sizes, with minims of text 5 mm. high.
Initials, to sections of the text and, preceded by a flourished paraph in the opposite colour, of the marginal gloss, 1-line, in red or blue, alternately.
Ownership inscription “Bp Trevor” added 18th century (Richard Trevor, 1707-1771, bishop of Durham, owner and donor of book.
Written in Northern France or England, later 12th century.
Former endleaves, with brown stains from turn-ins of covering, of Shelfmark of source: Cosin AA.III.25, now SB+ 0092/1 - Florus, Epitome rerum romanarum, (Basle 1532), and Shelfmark of source: Cosin AA.III.25, now SB+ 0092/2 - Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Archaeologia romana, (Basle 1532), bound in Cambridge or London (Spierinck roll III, FL.a.1 and FP.g.1). Portfolio II/1 (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
Proverbs 24:21 - 25:13 with gloss (gloss on 24:23 split in two with the second half, starting “Alia translatio”, interlined).
Oldham, J.B., English blind-stamped bindings (Cambridge: CUP, 1952)