Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Horizontal parchment strip from a breviary written in the Low Countries in the 15th century, reused and still in place as a tail band support in the binding of Bamburgh L.VI.73, Rerum Polonicarum tomi tres ... Alexandro Guagnino ... authore. (Frankfurt: 1584).
Parchment (only one side now visible)
No pricking or ruling visible. Written space 47 mm wide. 5 lines occupy 17 mm.
Written in small hybrida, proficiently.
Text-capital of Hosea 1:7 lined with red. Unfilled space for 1-line initial to Hosea 1:6.
Written in Low Countries, 15th century.
Spine support in Shelfmark of source: Bamburgh L.VI.73 - Rerum Polonicarum tomi tres ... Alexandro Guagnino ... authore. (Frankfurt: excudebat Ioann. Wechelus, impensis Sigis. Feyerabendij, 1584), bound in vellum, late 16th/early 17th century. Three parchment binding supports cut from a page from a Dutch book of hours have been removed from this volume and are now kept separately as DUL Add.MS.1950/C/29
Biblical text (Hosea 1:6-7); from a breviary?
israhel. Hoc dicit | [E]t concepit et peperit filiam ... eorum. Et domui