Peter Lombard, Sentences, in Latin, on parchment [England (Canterbury, or perhaps Rochester), c. 1175] Strip reused in a later binding, with remains of 17 lines in Canterbury prickly script from a single column (ruled in plummet), single red rubric, slightly discoloured in places and torn at edges, contemporary or near-contemporary interlinear additions, modern penmark zk and pencil 1625 (the last perhaps the date of the book the fragment was used to bind), else in good and presentable condition, 131 by 32 mm. From a collection of fragments sold by Sotheby s, 9 December 1963, lot 118, to A.H. Philpot (d. 1966), thence gifted to Spurgeon s College, London; de-accessioned by them and sold Sotheby s, 23 June 1992, as part of lot 3. After 1066 the two monasteries of Anglo-Saxon Canterbury were restocked with Norman monks, those in St. Augustine s mainly from Mont St-Michel in the south, and those in Christ Church from Bec and perhaps Jumièges in the north. They brought with them individual scribal practises, with Christ Church developing this prickly script , as it was named by N.R. Ker ( English Manuscripts , pp. 26-8 and Webber in Canterbury and the Norman Conquest , 1995). It is characterised by its forked ascenders, pronounced serifs and sharp angles of normally rounded strokes, and is also found in manuscripts of St. Andrew s, Rochester. Peter Lombard s Sentences is a systematic compilation of theology, and one of the fundamental works of medieval theology. The text was completed in 1150, perhaps only two decades before the present manuscript was written. The text here is that of book 2, distinctio 21 (Migne, Pat. Lat. , 192, 694-5).