Cut down sheets from the bifolia of a notebook containing notes and copies of some letters from Cicero to Dolabella, used to make pasteboards for binding.
Paper (watermark: a shield charged with a Greek cross, from which a line rises surmounted by a clover leaf and about which is wrapped a snake)
Written in humanist italic
Written in Europe, 16th century.
Former pasteboard of a volume Shelfmark of source: SA 0039/1-4, formerly Routh XLIV.G.21 containing 4 items, including Petrarch, De rebus memorandis (Louvain: 1483-5) and Articuli in Anglia et Parisius condemnati, (Cologne: ca. 1488), rebound in 1928. Portfolio I/27b (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections). Offsets from MS.1950/A/29, the former wrapper of SA 0039 are on DUL Add.MS.1950/A/30/1-2, the outer sheets of the pasteboard boards.
Cut up sheets from bifolia - a notebook containing notes in columns and Cicero, Letters - IX, 13 (to Dolabella) (30/2); IX, 10 (to Dolabella) (30/5); IX, 9 (to Dolabella) (30/14).