Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Two leaves of a commentary on Aristotle or similar author, reused and still in place as pastedowns in Bamburgh A.III.33, a copy of J. Lefevre d'Etaples, In Epistolas Pauli, (Paris, 1515), bound by Nicholas Spierinck in Cambridge before 1528.
Parchment (pasted down, only one side of each now visible)
No pricking, ruling or framing visible. Written space 210 x 155 mm. 2 columns. 44-45 lines.
Written in secretary with an anglicana form of g, competently.
Paraphs in red. Initial, to chapter, 2-line, blue with infilling and flourishing in red; lemmata underlined in red.
Written in England, 15th century, by the same scribe as the two pieces in Bamburgh Select G.V.55.
Bound in Shelfmark of source: Bamburgh A.III.33 - J. Lefevre d'Etaples, Contenta ... 1 Epistola ad Rhomanos ... ([Paris]: [Ex officina Henrici Stephani], [1515]), bound in Cambridge in the 1520s in calf, blind rolls Oldham AN.f(2) and DI.a(2) as used together by Nicholas Spierinck in Cambridge, remains of clasps, fore-edge title. Inscription “Ad usum fratris Ioannis Kempe precium 4 s.”, early 16th century, on the final endleaf.
An unidentified commentary, probably on a scientific text of Aristotle. The one chapter-opening here begins “Quoniam autem vacuum (?) etc. Postquam philosophus posuit racionem ponencium vacuum (?) inbibitum”. Cf. Aristotle, Physica, IV,8-13.