DUL Add.MS. 1950/Z/D40
Held by: Durham University Library: Additional Manuscripts

Parchment strip from a 14th century legal manuscript, re-used in a binding as a hinge strip.

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1msj139211f.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 1 piece
Size: 5 mm x 21 mm
Layout

No pricking or ruling visible. 2 columns, each 80 mm wide.

Script

Written in small textura, somewhat unevenly.

Decoration

Part of initial, in red, with red and blue infilling and flourishing.

Manuscript history
Creation

Written in England or France, 14th century.

Provenance

Back hinge strip in Shelfmark of source: Routh LIV.G.12 - Jean Picard, De prisca Celtopaedia (Parisiis: ex typographia Matthaei Dauîdis, 1556), bound in limp vellum, 16th century.

Manuscript contents
Routh LIV.G.12
Modern title: Legal text (fragment)
Language: Latin

Horizontal strip, with lowest line of writing visible, the word consanguinei is underlined.


Digitised material for Binding fragment in Routh LIV.G.12 - DUL Add.MS. 1950/Z/D40
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1msj139211f.html
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