Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Fragment from 14th century copy of Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos and an Elizabethan legal document, re-used as hinge strips in the bindings of volumes 1 and 2 of De republica ecclesiastica libri X. Auctore Marco Antonio de Dominis (London: J. Bill, 1617 & 1620)
Parchment
No pricking or ruling visible. Written space 274 mm. or more high. Presumably 2 columns, to judge by the amount of text to be accounted for between the recto and the verso. At least 48 lines.
Written in a well-formed Anglicanacompetently.
Text capitals filled with red. Initial, to subsection, 1-line, red.
Written in England, mid 14th century.
Hinge strip at back of Shelfmark of source: Cosin N.I.9, De republica ecclesiastica libri X. Auctore Marco Antonio de Dominis (part 1) (London: Ex officina Nortoniana apud Io: Billium, 1617), bound in early 17th century plain calf, with later gold tooling on spines; inscription Stephani Westi, pr. xiij s vj d Octob. 18 1617 and the name Edward Gwynn and initials E G gold tooled onto covers (Edward Gwynn, died 1645).
Vertical strip from the lower part of the inner edge of a leaf. (recto:) es ad uindictam ... ... sagittas tant
(verso:) ea qui ibi humiliter ... ... disceditur. Psallitur ergo
On Psalms. vii:12-14 and vii:18-viii:1.
Parchment
Written in England, later 16th century.
Hinge strip and headpiece reinforcement in Shelfmark of source: Cosin N.I.10, De republica ecclesiastica libri X. Auctore Marco Antonio de Dominis (part 2) (London: Ex officina Nortoniana apud Io: Billium, 1620), with the same binding and provenance as Cosin N.I.9.
Strip from the top and smaller piece of a document, issued in the name of Elizabeth I (mentions Thomas Thorpe).