Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Bifolium from a theological manuscript written in Northern Europe at the turn of the 14th/15th century, re-used as a pastedown.
Parchment
No pricking or ruling visible. Written space 142 x 101 mm. 2 columns. 49 lines.
Written in small cursiva
Written in Nortern Europe, late 14th or early 15th century.
Reused as back pastedown, with a little brown staining from turn-ins of covering and rusty holes from the fixings of the chaining-staple to the back board, in Shelfmark of source: Routh 13.B.11, now SB+ 0087 containing Antidotum contra diversas omnium fere seculorum haereses (Basle: excudebat Henricus Petrus, 1528), and Philonis Iudaei Alexandrini, Libri antiquitatum. Quaestionum et solutionum in Genesin. De Essaeis. De nominibus Hebraicis. De mundo. (Basle: per Adamum Petrum, 1527), binding calf over chamfered wooden boards, blind panel rolls, holes for bosses on front and back boards, clasp holes clasping on front board, holes for chain clasp at head of back board, Germany, early/mid 16th century (with a tool perhaps also found on a book bearing the centre-panel of the library of St Gertrude in Louvain Shelfmark of source: Routh 3.C.9, now SB+ 0098, and an inscription, 16th/17th century, “Bibliothecae Grünbergensis”. Portfolio II/19c (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
Explicit of one text, foot of soiled side column b: ... ... quam nobis concederat. Biblical and patristic authorities noted in margins, but not one citation in text, clean side column a line 32, “Vnde dicit oracius”.