Copy number: T-150(1)

Wanting the blank leaf [ll8].

Binding: Contemporary blind-tooled (fillets only) pigskin over wooden boards, with metal clasps and catches. Contemporary manuscript title ‘questiones de veritate' in brown ink on a rectangular paper label pasted onto the upper cover. Later manuscript title, in black ink, on a rectangular paper label at the head of the spine. Yellow-edged leaves. Leather index tabs dyed red. Strips from a twelfth-century noted manuscript are visible in the binding.

Size: 307 × 213 × 120 mm.

Size of leaf: 290 × 205 mm.

Running ‘quaestio' numbers in the upper right-hand corner of the rectos in a contemporary hand in brown ink. Occasional structuring of the text in the same hand.

On [a2r] a seven-line initial ‘Q' is supplied in blue within a square ground made of red pen-work decoration. Other initials are supplied in red or blue; paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. Numbering in the list of contents and running ‘quaestio' numbers and titles in red.

Provenance: Perhaps Würzburg, Bavaria, Conventual Franciscans, Inventio crucis/Sancta crux [suggestion by Kristian Jensen]. Anonymous sale (3 May 1832), lot 211. Purchased for £1. 3. 0; see Library Bills (1829-32), no. 364; Books Purchased (1832), 2.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 3.22.

Copy number: T-150(2)

Not in Sheppard.

Bound in a modern guard-book of fragments: see A‑105.

Size of leaf: 283 × 190 mm.

Leaves [L4] and the lower part of [L5.6] only.

Fragment; removed in 1884 from the binding of P 1.3 Med. containing Petrus Peña and Matthias de L'Obel, In G. Rondellettii . . . Pharmaceuticam officinam animaduersiones . . . (London, 1605) (STC 19595.5).

Some marginal notes, extracting key concepts, in an early hand in brown ink.

Provenance: [of P 1.3 Med.] Acquired by 1738; see Fysher, Catalogus, II 98.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: P 1.3 Med.

SHELFMARK: Inc. b. G97.1(3) [leaves 9-11].