Physical description of manuscript
Extent: i+199+i f
Size: 320 mm x 210 mm
Foliation
Early modern ink foliation.
CollationI-XVI12, XVII7 (6+1 [f.199], a singleton)
Catchwords: Contemporary catchwords on Qq. I-XVI.
Signatures: Leaf lettering-numbering in the first half of all quires including the last. The letters a-f are used to indicate the leaf, a roman numeral for the quire.
Layout
Two columns 58 lines
Script
Written in Textualis libraria, probably by a single scribe
Corrections and annotation
Extensive annotation throughout most items in 14th century cursive, largely - possibly exclusively - by a single hand.
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
Creation
Written in England, possibly Oxford,
early 14th century.
Provenance
Inscriptions: “.A.”, later 14th century, f.1r, top right; crossed through.
“A Iohannes Crisosomus super Matheum cum alijs xx tractatibus De communi libraria Monachorum Dunelm”, early 15th century, f.1r, top margin (partly cropped, the ‘A’ crossed through).
Pressmark:
“1a.3i.Y”, 15th century, f.1r, upper right.
Manuscript contents
(a)
f.1-96
r
Original title: Opus imperfectum in Mattheum
Incipit: Sicut referunt matheum conscribere Euangelium causa conpulit talis
Explicit: Cum videritis abhominacionem desolationis stantem in loco sancto
Rubric: Johannis crisostomi imperfecto super matheum
Language: Latin
(b)
f.96
r-103
r
Original title: In Psalmo L
Incipit: Pictores imitantur arte naturam et colores coloribus permiscentes visibiles corporum depingunt imagines
Explicit: et tales nos exhibeamus in hac uita, quo possimus invenire requiem sempiternam cum sanctis eius, per
Rubric: Incipit liber Iohannis Crisostomi primus de psalmo quinquagesimo
Language: Latin
(c)
f.103
r-111
v
Original title: De compunctione cordis
Incipit: Dum te intueor beate demetri, frequenter insistenti mihi et omni cum vehementia
Explicit: Grandis enim condempnatio est componenti quidem sermonem suum vitam uero suam atque operam negligenti
Rubric: Incipit liber ius crisostomi de conpunctione
Language: Latin
Possibly translated by Anianus
(d)
f.111
v-116
v
Original title: De eo quod nemo leditur nisi a semet ipso
Incipit: Scio quod crassioribus quibusque et presentis vite illecebris inhyantibus
Explicit: poterunt ei nocere qui a semetipso non leditur
Rubric: Incipit liber, Iohannis Crisostomi Neminem posse ledi nisi a se ipso
Language: Latin
(e)
f.117
r-121
v
Original title: Meditatio de excellentia BVM
Incipit: Supereminentem omni quod post hominem deum creatum est excellenciam beate matris dei
Explicit: et regnat per infinita secula deus; amen
Rubric: Meditacio cuiusdam peccatoris et pauperis beati anselmi de excellentia beate Marie
Language: Latin
(f)
f.121
v-124
r
Original title: Meditationes
Incipit: Anima christiana anima de gravi morte resuscitata
Explicit: quoniam in eternum misericordia tua qui es benedictus in secula. Amen
Rubric: Allocutio anselmi ad animam redeptam ut sui status memoriam habeat
Language: Latin
(g)
f.124
r-125
r
Original title: De videndo deo
Incipit: Memor debiti quod ex tua peticione
Explicit: opera alio experiemur quid disputare ualeamus
Rubric: Augustinus ad paulinam de videndo deo
Language: Latin
(h)
f.125
r-126
r
Original title: Sermo xxi
Author: Pseudo-Augustine
Incipit: Non est sine causa fratres dilectissimi quod preceptorum legis dei numeris
Explicit: poteritis pervenire auxiliante domino nostro iesu christo qui vivit in secula seculorum
Rubric: Incipit sermo beati augustini de x preceptis et de x plagis
Language: Latin
(i)
f.126
r-128
v
Original title: Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum
Incipit: Quod trinitas in unitatis natura
Explicit: ymaginem in eternitate similitudinem in moribus inveniri
Rubric: Capitula in librum augustini de diffinitionibus recte fidei
Language: Latin
(j)
f.128
v-138
v
Original title: De septem venenis
Incipit: Ratio veneni potissime convenit peccato
Explicit: ut scorpionis
Rubric: De veneno in generali
Language: Latin
(k)
f.138
v-161
r
Original title: Epistolae
Incipit: Petis a me nepociane karissime
Explicit: in ecclesia agminis vita laudata es
Rubric: Incipit epistola Ieronimi ad nepocianum presbiterum de vita clericorum et moribus
Language: Latin
Five items: Ad Nepotianum; Ad Paulinum; Ad Rusticum; Ad Eustochium; Pseudo-Jerome, Sermo de natura
(l)
f.161
v-168
v
Original title: Epistolae
Incipit: Augustinus episcopus
Explicit: et agendo et orando et ex his que habes gratias age deo
Rubric: Epistola beati augistini ad macedonium
Language: Latin
Three items: Ad Macedonium; Ad Probam; Ad Bonefacium
(m)
f.169
r-199
v
Original title: In Ezechielem
Incipit: Due penne singulorum iungebantur et due tegebant corpora eorum
Explicit: qui uiuit et regnat cum patre in unitate spiritus sancti per omnia secula seculorum amen
Rubric: Quedam omelie beati gregorii super ezechielem
Language: Latin
Microfilmed in 1985/86 by the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St John's Abbey and University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Copies held by them and Durham University Library.
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]).
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)
