Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Two bifolia from an unidentified chronicle, covering mid 13th century, written in England in the earlier 15th century.
Parchment
No pricking remaining. No ruling now visible. Written space 236 x 146 mm. 41-43 lines.
Written in Anglicana formata, with Secretary final s, proficiently.
Unfilled 2-line spaces for initials.
Written in England, earlier 15th century.
Former endleaves, with brown stains from turn-ins of covering Shelfmark of source: Cosin K.II.9 - Clauis scripturae s. seu de sermone sacrarum literarum, autore Matthia Flacio (Basle: ex officina Heruagiana, per Eusebium Episcopium, 1580-81) - late 16th century, blind tooled Oxford centrepiece using Ker stamp ix (recorded in Ker, no. 1682a). Portfolio II/3b (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
Unidentified chronicle, from Otto I to Henry IV and Gregory VII on f.1-2. After the hiatus on the coming of Antichrist on f.3-4, f.3 including (date?) 1260. The text, with running head on f.4r-v “xxijus liber”, ends on f.4v “Nam ciuitas illa celestis non egibit sole neque luna: quia claritas dei illuminabit eam”. With a note in lower left corner of f.4v (in different ink, by a smaller version of the same hand?) “De alleo libro octauo fo.Cmo De porro eodem libro fo.Cmo 6to”
Running head on f.4r “xxijus” and 4v “liber”. Chapter headings “De interuallo temporis inter antichrist mortem & aduentum iudicis”, “De ultima die iudicij” and “De innouacione mundi & luminarium celi”.
Ker, N.R., Fragments of medieval manuscripts used as pastedowns in Oxford bindings: with a survey of Oxford binding c. 1515-1620 (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2004)