DCL MS. B.IV.36Ranulf Higden, Speculum curatorumHeld by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts
Physical description of manuscript
Extent: 196 f
Size: 285 mm x 185 mm
Foliation
Secundo folio: residere per idem
Script
f.149-195 written by William of Kedwely.
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,
late 14th / early 15th century.
Provenance
Inscription: Speculum curatorum Communis librarie Dunelm., f.3r early 15th century; fyshburne, f.1; Scriptum A Willelmo de kedwely, 14th/15th century, f.195; shelfmark H
Manuscript contents
(a)
f.1,2,196
Modern title: Billingham accounts
Date: 1342
Language: Latin
Fragments of the Durham Priory Billingham manor account 1341-42 used as flyleaves/wrapper.
(b)
f.3-195
Original title: Speculum curatorum
Language: Latin
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.36 - Ranulf Higden, Speculum curatorumDigitised December 2017 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project
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