Catalogue of Durham University Library Fragments: Add.MS 1950/A/29

DUL Add.MS. 1950/A/29Bible (fragment)
Held by: Durham University Library: Additional Manuscripts

Leaf from Bible (Deuteronomy) reused as binding wrapper.

Physical description of manuscript

Support

Parchment

Extent: 1 leaf

Size: 338 mm x 243 mm

Condition of manuscriptPart lost across the middle, along the former spine-line; recto scuffed and darkened.

Layout

No pricking visible. Ruled in faint sharp grey. Written space 253 x 176 mm. 2 columns. 48 lines.

Script

Written in textura

Decoration

Text-capitals splashed with red. Initials, to chapters, 2-line, blue or red. Running-titles in red.

Manuscript history

Creation

Written in Low Countries, 14/15th century.

Provenance

Formerly cover 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/27a (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections). Offsets from this manuscript are on DUL Add.MS.1950/A/30/1-2, the outer sheets of the pasteboard boards of SA 0039.

Manuscript contents

Original title: Biblia

Date: 14/15th century

Incipit: habitant in seyr

Explicit: presentem diem

Language: Latin

Deuteronomy 2:4 - 4:4.

Digitised material for Leaf from Bible (Deuteronomy) reused as binding wrapper - DUL Add.MS.1950/A/29

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