This is an entry from a Durham
catalogue:--
F. Legenda Sanctorum, sive Passionarum pro mensibus
Februaria et Marcii. II. fo., non surrexerunt.
[1] See also Bateson, vi-vii.
The letter F was employed as a distinctive mark. The
note "II fo., non surrexerunt" signifies that the second
folio began with these words, and was used as the most
convenient method of distinguishing two copies of the
same book, for it would rarely happen that one scribe
would begin the second sheet with the same word as
another. In some houses the practice was extended to
printed books in the sixteenth century; and consequently
no fewer that nearly four hundred editions have been
named in the catalogue of Syon monastery.[1] In some
other catalogues the information given was fuller. The
catalogue of Syon notes first the press-mark in a bold
hand; then on the left side the donor's name, and on the
opposite side the words of the second folio; and beneath
the description of the book.
[1] Bateson, vii.
GRAUNTE P1m indutum est
Biblia perpulcra et complete cum interpretacionibus.
{P} Tabula sentencialis super eandem per totum.
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