DCL MS. A.III.22Ezechiel and Daniel, glossed
Held by: Durham Cathedral Library: Durham Cathedral Manuscripts

A composite volume of two separate parts: (A) f.2-7 and (B) f.8-192. They had clearly been joined thus by the turn of the16th century when Thomas Swalwell added a description of (A) to the early 14th century contents list of (B), f.1r.

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1m1j92g746p.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: ii+191+i f.
Size: 350 mm x 260 mm

Foliation

Modern pencil foliation


Secundo folio: cum caligantibus
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). Rust-ringed holes or stains in f.2-3, fore-edge centre, and f.190-192, centre, from the metal fixture for a clasp and pin on an earlier binding.

Manuscript history
Provenance

Inscription: “Liber Sancti cuthberti de dunelmo ex dono Magistri Henrici de Melsamby ad commune armariolum et [-erasure, for which Rud supplied ‘nulli’-] accomodandus”, mid 13th century, f.8r, upper margin. (For a comparable inscription without erasure see DCL MS A.III.15.

Pressmark: “.A.” or “.B.”

Title: “Ezechiel et Daniel glosati”, early 14th century, f.1r. To which was added, turn of 16th century, “cum descripcione summaria ciuitatis ierusalem cum figuris in principio” by Thomas Swalwell, monk of Durham.

Pressmark: “.B.”, 14th/15th century f.8r, upper margin.

In Spendement catalogues.

SECTION: (A)
Physical description of section of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent:
Size: 308 mm x 245 mm
Collation

I6 (= 8 with leaves 7-8 cancelled). The flyleaf, f.1, has been glued to f.2.

Layout

Two columns, 62 lines

Script

Written in Textualis libraria by one scribe

Decoration

Nine plans and four elevations of the Temple at Jerusalem, intercalated into the text at the relevant points; probably drawn and certainly labelled by the scribe.

History of section of manuscript
Creation

Written in Northern France or England, start of 13th century.


Manuscript contents
(a)     f.2-7
Original title: In visionem Ezechielis
Author: Richard, of St. Victor, -1173
Date: start of 13th century
Incipit: Locuturus de ezechielis edificio uolo prius uniuersa summatim perstringere
Explicit: secundum secundam erit ad altitudinem altaris complendam necessaria adiectio
Language: Latin

Chapters i-xxix, omitting the preface and chapter xxx.

SECTION: (B)
Physical description of section of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent:
Size: 332 mm x 248 mm
Collation

I-XVIII10; XIX5 (structure uncertain).

Layout

One to three columns, up to 20 lines of text and up to 39 lines of commentary.

Script

Written by four scribes in textualis quadrata, glossed in textualis semi-quadrata or textualis libraria

History of section of manuscript
Creation

Written in Northern France or England, mid 13th century.


Manuscript contents
(b)     f.8r-147v
Modern title: Ezechiel, glossed
Date: mid 13th century
Language: Latin

Preface, text and chapter list

(c)     f.148r-192r
Modern title: Daniel, glossed
Date: mid 13th century
Language: Latin

Preface, text, chapter list and list of kings.

(d)     f.192v
Modern title: Notes on points of observance and belief, etc.
Date: mid 13th century
Language: Latin

Group of Biblical texts and notes, missing the beginning due to triming of the page.


Microfilm
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.

Digitised material for Durham Cathedral Library MS. A.III.22 - Daniel and Ezechiel, glossed
Digitised in August 2016 as part of the Durham Priory Library Recreated project Many pages have marginalia which cannot be seen in the image because they are too far into the gutter, particularly at the beginning and end of the volume. 248 images have had corrections made in Photoshop to the file reference on the foliator label: “C” was changed to “A” via copy and paste.
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1m1j92g746p.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.   OCLC citation, Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).

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