DUL Add.MS. 1950/1Life of St Thomas the Apostle (fragment)
Held by: Durham University Library: Additional Manuscripts

Single part leaf containing section of a life of St Thomas the Apostle, probably written in the Liège region in about 1100.

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2mf4752g79p.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 1 part leaf
Size: 160 mm x 195 mm

Condition of manuscriptBadly rubbed on the flesh side, with a bottom corner torn off and missing, various small holes in the upper part. Offsets from a different text on the flesh side.
Layout

Originally two columns (half of left column missing), with lines and margins in hard point.

Script

Written in late Caroline minuscule of Mosan type, possibly (by analogy with Durham Cathedral Library MS B.III.11) from the region of Liège.

Manuscript history
Creation

Written in Low Countries, approximately 1100.

Provenance

Bought at the Bloomsbury auction, 19 March 2015, accession Misc.2014/15:55.

Manuscript contents
Modern title: Life of St Thomas the Apostle
Language: Latin

Lower [right] part of a leaf. Incipit of the best preserved column of text: [effi]ciantur filii dei. Et ne forte haec predicatio credi non possit, dedit ?nobis potestatem qui nos iussit hoc docere... Ending: Hodie vero hoc constitutum est, ut medi[camento].


Digitised material for Fragment of Life of St Thomas - Add.MS.1950/1
Digitised September 2018
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