Shelfmark
MS 240(02)
Title
Fragment from a theological treatise [manuscript]
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1200-1300.
Physical description
[1] leaf ; 152 x 97 mm.
Language
Written in Latin.
Note
Material: membrane.
Note
Format: fragment from a folio torn from a codex. It now is inlaid onto paper to form a volume alongside other fragments.
Note
Written space: 116 x 75 mm.
Note
Accompanying material: notes on lined paper by a modern (20th-century?) hand attached to front lining paper of the bound volume. They contain summary information about the fragment, which is found at f. 23.
Note
Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: none visible on this leaf.
Note
Page preparation: no visible pricking or ruling.
Note
Mise-en-page: single column (21-23 lines) written in a cursive script.
Note
Decoration: none.
Note
Handwriting: Anglicana, presenting use of tall S, 8-shaped G, and A with a headstroke. Very few forked ascenders and no pressure applied to the nib to form bulges in the script.
Note
Abbreviation and punctuation: Tironian nota with a crossbar. Puncti.
Note
Correction: none.
Note
Marginalia, later additions: none.
Formatted contents note
Contents: The contents remain unidentified, but the text concerns theological issues.
Provenance
Origin: England.
Provenance
Provenance: ex dono label of Eton Fellow John Reynolds, dated 1751, glued on folio 1r. Former ECL shelfmarks: MS 169a, Bl.7.29, Bl.6.24a.
Binding
20th-century half-bound sand-and-grain cloth in two different shades of brown by Eyre & Spottiswoode. Covers decorated with gilt fillets separating the two different coloured leathers. Spine flat, decorated with with gilt fillets and titling ("[Comm]ent in vet. Test. (fragm.) saec. xv."). Endpapers of modern, undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Bound with another item, shelfmarks MS 240(01).
Copy-specific note
The bound volume also includes a fragment the size of 70 x 38 mm of fo. xlvi of "Tractatus consultatorii venerandi magistri Henrici de Gorychum" (Cologne, 1503).
Subject
Manuscript fragments 13th century.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Eyre & Spottiswoode binder.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B52585