DUL Add.MS. 1950/Z/C3/1-2
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Two vertical strips from a copy of Ambrose's Hexameron, written in England in the second half of the 14th century.


Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m9w0323150.html


Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 2 pieces
Size: 330 mm x 50 mm

Condition of manuscriptBoth with an oblique cut, and staining from leather of the binding.
Layout

No pricking or ruling visible. Written space 224 mm high. 2 columns. 48 lines.

Script

Written in Anglicanacompetently.

Decoration

Paraphs in red or blue.


Manuscript history
Creation

Written in England, later 14th century.

Provenance

Former hinge strips, now fixed to the back pastedown, in Shelfmark of source: SB+ 0135, formerly S.R. +FPBP.B40B and originally Cosin A.II.22 - Psalmi Dauidici ab Hebraicam veritatem castigati: et iuxta sensum quem literalem dicunt enarrati, per ... Thomam de Vio (Paris: apud Poncetum le Preux, 1540), bound in calf over wooden boards, blind tools (Oldham roll AN.b.(1)), by John Reynes, London, mid 16th century.


Manuscript contents
SB+ 0135, pasted to rear pastedown
Modern title: Hexameron (fragment)
Author: Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
Language: Latin

Two vertical strips from the centre of two consecutive leaves
t de marmore ... ... speciale et propr e et operacione ... ... maria pro regioni. Book 2 cap. v - Book 3 cap. iii.


Digitised material for Hinge strips from binding of SB+ 0135 - DUL Add.MS. 1950/Z/C3/1-2
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m9w0323150.html
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