Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Two fragments from a theological manuscript
Parchment
Written in textura
Annotation in a slightly later cursive hand.
Written in England, 13/14th century.
Former flyleaves of Shelfmark of source: Routh XXV.G.2 - J. Carion, Ioannis Carionis mathematici Buticheimensis Chronicorum libri tres (Paris: apud Iacobum Dupuys, 1551), with 17th century ownership notes on title-page of Mor: Lloyd (and the former front flyleaf here) and David Lloyd, and Tho. Figly on the rear flyleaf. Binding of a blind ornament found on other books with tools used on Oxford bindings in the third quarter of the sixteenth century, see Ker 2004, no. 866b (Theology 13th century) recording a note on the former front flyleaf here, dated 27 Oct. 1560. Portfolio I/7b (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
Only a thin vertical strip of text (30 mm) remains, with early sidenotes (Responsio, obiecitur, Ratio reddendi primicias & decimas).
Ker, N.R., Fragments of medieval manuscripts used as pastedowns in Oxford bindings: with a survey of Oxford binding c. 1515-1620 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2004)