Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Two leaves from Aquinas, Summa theologia, late 13th century, re-used as pastedowns.
Parchment
Written space 248 x 150 mm. Ruled lightly in sharp gray. 2 cols. 48 lines. Original section-numbers (Arabic) in the margins; Some small marginal cursive references.
Written in textura
Paraphs, in red or, less frequently, blue. Initials, to articles and questions, 2-line, blue with red flourishing or, alternately, red with blue flourishing.
Written in France or England, late 13th century.
Former pastedowns, stained by four bands and the turn-ins of the brown covering of Shelfmark of source: Cosin T.I.14, now SB+ 0065 - Suetonius, etc., Ex recognitione Des. Erasmi Roterodami. C. Suetonius Tranqvillus. Dion Cassius Nicaeus. Aelius Spartianus. Iulius Capitolinus. Aelius Lampridius. Vulcatius Gallicanus V.C. Trebellius Pollio. Flauius Vopiscus Syracusius. Quibus adiuncti sunt, Sex. Aurelius Victor. Eutropius Paulus Diaconus. Ammianus Marcellinus. Pomponius Laetius Ro. Io. Bap. Egnatius Venetus, (Basle: apud Ioannem Frobenium, 1518), bound in Cambridge by Nicholas Spierinck using Oldham rolls An.f.(2) and DI.a.(2). Inscription: “Mr Bonaventure Assheby” (16/17th century) upside-down on (a) recto (also appears on DUL Add.MS. 1950/A/8). Bonaventure Assheby of Westminster esq. appears in the Middlesex Session Rolls 1584 and his children are entered in the parish register of Harefield in the 1580s and 1590s (Madden 1834, volume 5, p.13). Portfolio I/8 (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
Fragment begins half way through I,lx,5 and ends very near end of I,lxi,4.
Fragment contains middle of I,lxiv,2 to middle of I,lxv,1.
Oldham, English blind-stamped bindings, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952)