This manuscript possesses a front flyleaf, used to protect the text from any worming of the front cover (Brown, 1994, p. 57), that also possesses a colophon and also contains a list of the contents of the manuscript that are now missing (see Figure 12). Interestingly, the front flyleaf also exhibits a written line of the alphabet, perhaps a bit of practice by the scribe.
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| Figure 12 |
The upper right hand corner of the front flyleaf possesses the colophon, one of the most telling and also, at the same time, confusing pieces of information within the entire manuscript. There is a small inscription that reads: "de Sancto Oswaldo, de Nostel", translated to "of St. Oswald, Nostell Priory" or "dedicated to St. Oswald, Nostell Priory" (see Figure 13).
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| Figure 13 |
A previous owner of the manuscript placed a label inside the manuscript's cover indicating that the codex was the "Manuscript of Oswald, King of the Northumbrians b. 604, d. 642" (see Figure 14).
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| Figure 14 |
However, this was a misinterpretation of the inscription on the front flyleaf as the manuscript is from 1200 and was simply created by the Nostell Priory, dedicated to St. Oswald, not actually belonging to him. The previous owner, who placed the label inside the manuscript, was possibly Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles,California according to a penciled-in price-code of "cxcx $175" (see Figure 15) in the upper right hand corner (Kidd, 2013).
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| Figure 15 |
A back pastedown is present, although most of it has disintegrated over time (see Figure 16) but was once used to protect the text from any worming present in the wood (Brown, 1994, p.96).
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| Figure 16 |
