Two separate leaves from a glossed Gospel of John written in northern France or England late 12th / early 13th century, later re-used in a binding.
Parchment
No pricking visible. Ruled in faint sharp brownish grey, for text and gloss together. Written space of gloss 212 x 125 mm. 28 lines of text; 56 lines of gloss, the first below the top ruled line.
Written in textura, in two sizes, competently, in brown ink.
Running-titles, alternately red and blue characters, including chapter-number. Text-capitals of text filled with red. Paraphs: (i) to minor divisions of text, in red, sometimes over ink, in the form of the angular paragraphus; (ii) to major divisions of text, in red, in the form of the rounded capitulum; (iii) to sections of marginal gloss, 3-line, red or blue, alternating.
Marginal note, f.1r, in an 14th century English hand.
Written in northern France or England, late 12th / early 13th century.
Former endleaves of an unidentified book.Portfolio II/27 (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
[Text:] |hoc et in tribus diebus ... ... ... ego non sum Christus. Sed quia|
[Marginal gloss:]|Hic erat unus ex hiis ... ... Quia ultra consuetudinem ... homo sum ille deus|
[Interlinear gloss:] |uos exsoluetis et ego excitabo ... ... in remissionem peccatorum. sed ille|
John 2:19 - 3:28 with gloss