Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Pieces from a bifolium of Peter Lombard's Commentaria in Psalmos, re-used as hinge-strips.
Parchment
No pricking visible. Lightly ruled in softish dark brown. Written space 115 mm. wide. 4.1 mm. between ruled lines. 2 cols. The text written on the same lines as the gloss, extending a varying distance across the columns from the left-hand edge.
Written in earlygothic textura , shakily, in two sizes.
Lemmata in gloss underlined in red. Initials: (i) to verses in gloss, 1-line, red; (ii) to verses in text, 1-line +, red or olive green, the latter enclosing a vertical red line.
Written in England, earlier 13th century.
Hinge strips in Shelfmark of source: Routh 47.B.13 - J. Sleidanus, De statu religionis & reipublicae, Carolo Quinto, Caesare, commentariorum libri XXVI (Strasburg: excudebat Iosias Rihelius, 1559), bound in sprinkled calf, with blind fillets, 17th century. Also on the flyleaves, English manuscript account of receipts from Watson of Gretwell.
Small parts of Peter Lombard, Commentaria in Psalmos lxxi:6-lxxxiii:17, “quem nichil sustinere posset” “noctem consolatur luna”. Two adjoining horizontal strips from a bifolium; the strip at the back preceding that at the front, beginning with the lower half of the verso of the back strip, followed by the upper half of the verso of the front strip, and ending with the lowest column on the recto of the front strip.