Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Two vertical parchment strips cut from an Italian glossed civil law text, reused and still in place in Bamburgh H.VI.37 as hinge strips.
Parchment (only one side of each now visible)
No pricking or ruling visible. 2 columns. At least 50 lines of text, occupying approximately 255 mm.
Written in rotunda, in two sizes, proficiently
Initials: (i) to name of authority, 1-line blue; (ii) to subsection of apparatus, 2-line, blue, with red infilling and flourishing; (iii) to subsection of text, 3-line, set outside text, as (ii); (iv) to section of text, 4-line, inset in text, apparently not executed.
Written in Italy, 14th century.
Hinge strips in Shelfmark of source: Bamburgh H.VI.37 - The historie of Guicciardin ... Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton. (London: by Thomas Vautroullier for William Norton, 1579), bound in calf, gold fillets, rolls and ornaments (acorn corner tools), blind fillets and rolls, oval gold stamp in centre of front and back boards, late 16th/early 17th century.
Unidentified glossed civil law text.