Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Francesc Eiximenis, Vida de Cristo (fragment) reused as pasteboard in a binding.
(1-11) Paper
(12) Parchment
No pricking or ruling visible. Written space a little over 151 mm wide. 14+ lines.
Written in cursive
Paraphs, in red. Initials, to chapters, 3-line, red.
Written in Spain, 15th century.
Former (1-11) parts of the pasteboards and (12) hinge-strip, in Shelfmark of source: Routh LXXVII.C.7, now SB 0399 - Genesius de Sepulveda, Epistolarum libri septem, (Salamanca: apud Ioannem Mariam da Terra Noua & Iacobum Archarium, 1557), with an early tooled binding and the inscription of the Jesuits of Alcala (Spain) dated 1709. Portfolio I/30a (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
(1-11) eleven pieces, of which five have part of the lower margin; (12) one piece, probably from the margin of a manuscript leaf .
(12) blank save for five lines of writing in Latin, s. xiv or xv.
(1-11) Francisco de Ximenez O.F.M., trans. from Catalan, Vida de Cristo. Of the nine numbered chapter-rubrics here vi-viii match 6-8 of the translation in the edition sponsored by Hernando de Talavera (1496), but a second viii is there 15, ix is 16, xxvi is 34, and xxviii-xxix are 26-27, while “Capitulo primero” here has the same rubric as cap. 9 there, where it is the first after the prologue to Bk 2, preceded and followed by text different from that here.