![John Russell’s inscription on the second of two fragmentary flyleaves, New College Library, Oxford, LPF3/2, f. 47 [detail]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-07/John%20Russell%E2%80%99s%20inscription%20on%20the%20second%20of%20two%20fragmentary%20flyleaves%2C%20New%20College%20Library%2C%20Oxford%2C%20LPF3-2%2C%20f.%2047%20%5Bdetail%5D.jpg.webp?itok=erktWbBh)
John Russell (c. 1430–1494) and a Fragmentary Witness to Peter Schoeffer’s 1470 edition of Jerome’s Letters
Issue number
(2024): 21
The fragments in New College Library which are the focus of this note are two large vellum leaves of Imperial size, three sides of which are printed, the fourth blank, and it was on this blank page that John Russell wrote his name in 1472. The discoloration at the edges shows that they were once pastedown; they may originally have been flyleaves; in either case, the verso was the natural place for an inscription.
New College Library, Oxford, LPF3/2, f. 47 [detail]