Composite manuscript in three parts:
Parchment
Early modern ink foliation
Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over thick wooden boards (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th century)
The dates at which the three parts were joined together are unclear. The earliest certain evidence for the current state is the early modern foliation that runs throughout the volume as presently constituted. (A) and (B) were clearly together by 1395 as the entry in the 1395 Cloister Catalogue clearly refers to both. Informal jottings on Part C indicate that it had been scrapped by 15th/16th century; however, the extreme weathering on f.105v (the final page of (B) - including staining which is not echoed on f.106r (the first of (C)) - suggests that (C) was not joined to (B) for several centuries.
Parchment
Early modern ink foliation
I-IV8, V10
Two columns, 43 lines
Written in Textualis semi-quadrata probably by a single scribe, with corrections by several hands.
Written in England, early 13th century.
Parchment
I-VII8, VIII7 (=8 with leaf 8 cancelled).
Two columns 43 lines.
Written in Textualis semi-quadrata by an undetermined number of scribes.
Written in England, early 13th century.
Parchment
3 bifolia
Two columns, 53 lines
Written in Textualis semi-quadrata
Written in Northern Europe, 13th century.
Fragments from books III and IV.
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