Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
An early 13th centruy English copy of Aristotle's Logica nova, in Latin.
Parchment
Modern pencil foliation runs: 1-97, 97 (again) - 239; the final medieval leaf is unfoliated. The lower third of f.86 has been neatly excised.
flyleaves (1-2) ?a bifolium; I-XX12
24 lines per page
The main text is written in Textualis libraria, probably by a single hand.
Much of the glossing, marginal and interlinear, is by a single hand, broadly contemporary with the main text, using a compact, angular cursive, highly abbreviated. The consistent difference in script type makes it difficult to establish whether this is also the main-text scribe using his ‘glossing hand’ but such is certainly possible.
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). Rust-stained holes on f.1 from the metal fixtures on an earlier binding: two at the fore-edge from clasps; two at the top centre and one at the bottom. On final unnumbered leaf there are two copper-stained holes from clasp pin fixtures, plus rust-stained holes from other metalwork.
Written in England, early 13th century.
Jottings
Moderate marginal and interlinear glossing throughout, mainly in one hand that glossed the other items.
Moderate marginal and interlinear glossing throughout, mainly in one hand that glossed the other items.
Moderate glossing marginal and interlinear throughout, mainly by the hand that glosses all the texts, but also by others especially from 188r-198v
Heavy glossing marginal and interlinear throughout, mainly by the hand that glosses the other texts, with some contributions by other hands