DUL Add.MS. 1950/Z/C/15/1-2
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Two part leaves from a copy of Luke, glossed, wirtten in Northern France, turn of 12th and 13th century, re-used as pastedowns in a composite volume of three printed works bound in the mid 15th century.

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m8w32r5742.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 2 pieces
Size: 312 mm x 220 mm

Condition of manuscriptOne side and top and/bottom edges cropped; worm-holes in margins of back leaf.
Layout

No pricking visible. Ruled in soft grey, with some frame lines also by drypoint. Written space 211 x 136 or, front, 138-40 mm; central text column 42 mm or more wide. 43 gloss lines; 22 text lines, using every alternate gloss-line.

Script

Written in proto-gothic textura, expertly, in two sizes.

Decoration

Running-title, CAS, in alternating red and blue capitals. Decoration: large paraphs to each marginal gloss, in alternating red and blue. Initials, to subsections of text, 1-line, alternately in red with blue infilling and flourishing and blue with red infilling and flourishing.

Manuscript history
Creation

Written in Northern France ?, 12th/13th century.

Provenance

Pastedowns in SB+ 0149, formerly SR +GTBA.B14S: three works bound together Shelfmark of source: Cosin Y.2.23/1 - Joannis Stofler Justingensis germani Tabulae astronomicae ... (Tübingen: Thomam Anshelmum, 1514); Shelfmark of source: Cosin Y.2.23/2 - Folium populi. Instrumentum hoc a Petro Apiano iam recens inuentum ... (Ingolstadt: Petrus Apianus, 1533); Shelfmark of source: Cosin Y.2.23/3 - Archimedis Syracusani philosophi ac geometrae excellentissimi opera ... (Basle: Ioannes Heruagius, 1544); all bound in calf over boards, blind tools with Spes panel (Goldschmidt 179, Weale 434) and Lucretia panel (Goldschmidt 177, Weale 433) signed with the initials of the Louvain binder J[acob] P[andelaert] and the stamp cutter M. Gr, the latter panel with date 1534.

Manuscript contents
SB+ 0149 pastedowns
Modern title: Luke, glossed
Language: Latin

Two consecutive leaves, with both versos still pasted down. (back; text:) baptismum penitencie ... ... ostendit uobis; (marginal gloss:) [Herodes ...]cipes iudeorum ... ... Quis ostendit nisi prudentia ... generationem ergo (front; text:) militer faciat ... ... cuius non sum; (marginal gloss:) ualde necessaria cum proximis ... ... Venit Ideo baptizo ... uia preparetur. Luke 3:3-7 and 11-16.

Citation: Stegmüller RBMA 11829

Digitised material for Binding and pastedowns (Luke, glossed) from SB+ 0149 - DUL Add.MS. 1950/Z/C/15/1-2
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m8w32r5742.html
Bibliography

Weale, W. H. J., Bookbindings and rubbings of bindings in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum   OCLC citation (London: V & A, 1894-98)

Goldschmidt, E. P., Gothic and Renaissance bookbindings   OCLC citation (London: Ernest Benn, 1928)

Stegmüller, Friedrich, Repertorium biblicum medii aevi   OCLC citation, (Madrid: 1950-1980)

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