Script: Written in a fine early gothic bookhand by several scribes, above top line.

Nice penwork initials, 7- to 3-line, for each letter of the alphabet, blue with red or vice versa. Smaller initials, 2-line, in similar but less intricate designs for chapter divisions. Chapter numbers, some initials, plain line fillers, and text divisions in red. Ornamental border, in red, encloses common ending for verses on f. 1r-v. Spaces for rubrics left unfilled. Majuscules in text stroked with pale yellow.

Beginning and end of codex worm and rodent damaged.

Binding: Date? Fragmentary binding. Resewn with a chain stitch and the spine lined with coarse cloth. Plain, wound endbands and paste boards (composed of paper and parchment fragments of manuscripts), that once were covered with brick red tawed skin. Traces of two ties. Outline of rectangular label, now missing, on upper cover.

In Latin.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 266.

Durand of Huesca, Biblical Distinctiones. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Bible > Commentaries.

Biography > Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.

Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 13th century.

Manuscripts, Medieval - Spain - 13th century.