DCL MS. B.IV.14Lives of saintsHeld by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts
Physical description of manuscript
Extent: 237 f
Size: 270 mm x 175 mm
Foliation
Parchment stub f.116
Secundo folio: probatur vixisse
Collation18, 2-1210, 1312, 14-188, 198, 2010, 2112, 22-238, 2410, 2512.
Layout
Written space: 210 x 125 mm. 32 lines. (f.201-26 44 lines)
Script
Hands in each of the six co-eval sections are found in other manuscripts made
at this period.
Decoration
initials in red, purple and sometimes green one with a clove curl.
Binding
Standard Tuckett binding, mid 19th century full brown calf over
thick wooden boards (Charles Tuckett, binder to the British
Museum, rebound many Durham manuscripts in the 19th
century)
Manuscript history
Provenance
Inscription: “.L. Vita sancti gregorii Martini Nicholai dunstani et Augustini De communi monachorum
dunelm”, start of 15th century, f.1r.
Manuscript contents(a)
f.1-111
Original title: Vita S. Gregorii Magni
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 3641, 3642
(b)
f.122-122
Original title: Vita S. Martini
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 5610
(c)
f.122-126
v
Original title: Epistolae de S. Martino
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 5611, 5612, 5613
(d)
f.126
v-149
v
Original title: Dialogi de S. Martino
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 5614, 5615, 5616
(e)
f.149
v-151
v
Original title: Narrationes de miraculis in obitu S. Martini et de prima translatione eiusdem
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 5619, 5620, 5621, 5622, 5623
(f)
f.151
v-167
v
Original title: De miraculis S. Martini
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 5618
(g)
f.167
v-169
Original title: De quodam miraculo beati Martini quod contigit in festiuitate translationis eius
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 5660
(h)
f.170-181
Original title: Vita S. Nicholai
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 6104, 6105,6106
(i)
f.181-189
Original title: Miracula S. Nicholai
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 6150, 6151, 6152, 6153, 6154, 6160, 6161, 6164, 6167, 6172
(j)
f.190-200
v
Original title: Translatio S. Nicholai Barium A.D.
1087, cum miraculis
Language: Latin
“Post beati Nicholai gloriosum ab hac vita” (incl. verses “Tempore quid miseris”, quoted Ordericus Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica 3,VII,ix
BHL 6104, 6105, 6106
(k)
f.200
v
Original title: Versus de conversatione
Language: Latin
(l)
f.201-218
v
Original title: Acta et miracula S. Dunstani
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 2344, 2345
(m)
f.219
v-235
Original title: Vita S. Augustini
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 785
(n)
f.235-236
Modern title: Table of works of St Augustine
Language: Latin
(o)
f.236-237
r
Original title: De translatione S. Augustini
Incipit: “Beatus Augustinus dum Ypponiensi sepultus esset
Language: Latin
(p)
f.237
r-237
v
Original title: Epistola de translatione S. Jacobi in Hispaniam
Language: Latin
Cited: BHL 4061
MicrofilmMicrofilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham Cathedral Library.
Digitised material for Durham Cathedral Library MS B.IV.14 - Saints' livesDue to the binding, there are many images throughout the volume (particularly in the first half) with marginalia and text not visible in the image because they are too far into the gutter. Sometimes the missing text is visible on the overlap on the preceding verso image. There are two f.107. The second has an asterisk on the recto and an asterisk (*) has been added to the foliator on the recto and verso. There is no f.200. Foliation goes f.199, f.201 etc. There is an additional image of the fore-edge in which clear plastic his been used to hold open a numbered tab. Digitised October 2018 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project.
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1m2j62s500d.html
Bibliography
Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiae cathedralis
dunelm. Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at
various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution, including
catalogues of the library of the abbey of Hulne, and of the mss.
,
Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).
Bibliotheca hagiographica Latina antiquae et
medii aetatis (Brussels, 1898-1901);
Supplements (Brussels, 1911, 1986)
Mynors, R.A.B., Durham Cathedral
manuscripts to the end of the twelfth century. Ten plates in
colour and forty-seven in monochrome. With an introduction
[including a list of all known Durham manuscripts before
1200] ,
(Durham: 1939)
Index terms 