Fragment

Oxford: Corpus Christi College, MS. 488, Oxford: Corpus Christi College, I. 12. 8.no. 45

Lost manuscript: 

Textual information

Subject: 
Theology
Author of work: 
Thomas Netter of Walden (d. 1430)
Title of work: 
Doctrinale fidei
Section: 
Lib. III, art. i, cc. 6-7 [Venice 1757 ed., vol. I, col. 720b-722e]
Orientation: 
raised
Transcription: 

(recto) ¦¦mul erant in uno loco post … Et ne foret contencio ¦¦
(verso; col. 1 too rubbed to be legible) …in occiduis galliarum … docendi officium

Palaeography

Type of script: 
Gothic
Date of production: 
s. xv
s. xv 2/4

Material information

Material: 
Parchment
Type of fragment: 
Pastedown
Fragment type detail: 
lifted, originally pasted to upper board inverted
Element of folio: 
bottom two-thirds of folio, with strip (30mm wide) from conjoint leaf
Ruling: 
Fully ruled with double bounding lines for last line, extending into margins
Decoration: 

Names of authorities rubricated and single-line blue on red filigree initials in text.

Further information

Notes: 

The leaf signature is written in pen in the central reservation at the last line: ‘ff. iiij.’
At top of the central reservation a note (s. xvii?) writes: ‘Lacinia Tho: Waldentis contra Wiclevum’.
At bottom, inverted, the old shelfmark of the volume ‘S20-10’ and some probationes pennae.
Lightly stitched to Oxford: Corpus Christi College, MS. 488, no. 46, presumably at time of removal from bindings and mounting in the guardbook.

Dimensions

Fragment: 

299mm (h) x 191mm (w)

Number of lines: 
33
Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
3mm
Space between lines: 
6mm
Height of written space: 
196mm
Lower margin: 
103mm
Inner margin: 
14mm
Width of text 1: 
74mm
Reservation 1: 
17mm
Width of text 2: 
74mm
Outer margin: 
14mm